Border Patrol agent claims 'cartels control the border'
- The agent said that border patrol has been defunded and overwhelmed
- Migrant numbers have exploded as organized crime has obtained more power
- READ MORE: Chinese migrants using Mexican IDs to aide passage to US
A border patrol agent has claimed that cartels are the ones in control of the US-Mexico border.
The anonymous agent told News Nation that the US government does not have control of the border, which has fallen into the hands of cartels.
‘The biggest thing is that we do not control the border, the cartel controls the border,’ the agent said.
‘Everything that we do is a reaction to things that they have planned. Usually, we’re chasing around pawns while the kings and queens are doing whatever they want.’
The agent asked to remain anonymous because he said he is ‘terrified to talk to media’ and possibly losing his job over it.
The anonymous agent told News Nation that the US government does not have control of the border, which has fallen into the hands of cartels
The agency has struggled to keep up with the record numbers of migrants crossing the border
It is thought the IDs are being made and sold by cartels so that migrants travelling to the US from Asia and elsewhere can pass checks by Mexican police as they travel through the country
The agent added: ‘Our border is by no means secure, and even if it was, we don’t have the manpower to handle the situation that’s happening right now.’
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Above, a man who entered the country legally using the controversial CBP One app
They warned that ‘no one is coming to protect you’ because the agency has ‘been defunded and overwhelmed.’
Border Patrol has struggled to keep up with the record numbers of migrants trying to cross the border, as officers are forced to spend more time processing asylum claims.
Migrant numbers have exploded as organized crime has obtained more power and expanded its presence in Mexico, with cartels often charging smugglers a tax to allow them to work in the region.
As previously reported by DailyMail.com, cartels have been recruiting American soldiers to smuggle migrants into the US in a worrying new trend.
So far, two have been arrested for participating in the illegal people smuggling schemes.
Cartels are also believed to be providing Mexican IDs to Chinese nationals hoping to cross the border into the US.
It is thought the IDs are being made and sold by cartels so that migrants travelling to the US from Asia and elsewhere can pass checks by Mexican police as they travel through the country.
The documents are then destroyed or discarded by migrants as they cross the US border, making it harder for authorities to identify them and easing their path to asylum.
San Diego has seen more than double the amount of Chinese nationals cross its border in the first half of this fiscal year than in all of 2023.
Most fly into Tijuana before paying cartels up to $35,000 to get them to the US.
Migrant arrests in San Diego reached 8,989 for the week ending April 16, according to figures the agency posted on X. Meanwhile, Tucson — which previously had been the top region for crossings — had 7,500 arrests for the week ending April 19.
Texas National Guard conducts operation using non-lethal weapons, specifically a pepper spray gun, to disperse migrants maintaining a camp within the Rio Grande
Recent data shows the migrant crisis is shifting west to border states like Arizona and California amid a crack down in Texas by Republican Governor Greg Abbott
Recent data shows the migrant crisis is shifting west to border states like Arizona and California amid a crack down in Texas by Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
Mexican authorities have also tightened security on their side of the Texan border.
The volume of migrants arriving is overwhelming resources in San Diego, with officials reporting that up to 1,000 people a day are being released at city train and bus stops.
Crossings in the sector rose from 31,562 in February to 33,784 in March, although this total was down slightly from the 34,371 migrants who entered San Diego in December.
DailyMail.com has previously revealed that a US Border Patrol chief has warned that his agents are being overwhelmed by the number of Chinese migrants crossing the border illegally and that they could be missing Communist spies.
Chief Patrol Agent Anthony Good, of the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, told the Homeland Security Committee during a private hearing in September last year that his agents were ‘trying their best to figure out why [individuals from other continents are] coming’ but that ‘information can be hidden’ and ‘their agendas, their ideologies, the reason for them coming could be missed’.
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