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The crisis that exists in the southern border It has led Mexican cartels, which traffic drugs and people, to seize the southern border, which has caused a threatened to the national security of the United States. According to Yuma City senior official Jonathan Lines, the Mexican cartels that control the border have provoked “a national security problem” so it has ceased to be a “political discussion”.
According to Lines, the cartels have established smuggling operations that have been effective for themas well as lucrative, that little by little have begun to overwhelm the Border Patrol, since if the immigrants do not have the money that they are asked to cross, then they have the option of trafficking drugs and thus paying their debt instead of giving cash.
According to Customs and Border Protection, CBP, 100 smugglers were arrested at the southern border in 2022 compared to the previous five years, where there were a total of 26 arrests, which translates into profits from human trafficking operations that have been increasing in recent years.
According to Homeland Security Investigations, the industry raked in $13 billion as of July, up from $500 million in 2018. And CBP seized 15,000 pounds of fentanyl along the southern border in 2022, a 206% increase from 2020.
via Twitter GOP also replicated information from Homeland Security Investigations “It is estimated that Mexican cartels now make $13 billion a year smuggling immigrants… 26 times what they made in 2018.”
Homeland Security Investigations estimates that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the US, 26 times what they made in 2018.
— GOP (@GOP) January 18, 2023
Customs and Border Protection reported that encounters with immigrants increased from 480,000 in 2020 to 2.3 million last year.
The New York Times for its part announced that Cartel fees for immigrants trying to cross the border can range from $4,000 to $20,000.
Lines assured that countless immigrants who come to the United States thanks to the Mexican cartels are still in debt to them and if his intention was to work hard for a better future for his family, now he has to work twice as long to pay his debt “not everyone can pay it and they come as servants.”
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