{"id":1535598,"date":"2022-07-01T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535598"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:34:19","slug":"ex-mexican-immigration-chief-cartels-made-huge-expansion-in-human-smuggling-trade-in-last-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-mexican-immigration-chief-cartels-made-huge-expansion-in-human-smuggling-trade-in-last-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Mexican Immigration Chief: Cartels Made \u2018Huge Expansion\u2019 In Human Smuggling Trade \u2018In Last Two Years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-mexican-immigration-chief-cartels-made-huge-expansion-in-human-smuggling-trade-in-last-two-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535598&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Human smuggling operations led by Central American drug cartels have exploded since U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> took office, according to a former top Mexican immigration official.<\/p>\n<p>Former Mexican immigration chief Tonatiuh Guill\u00e9n said Friday that human smuggling industry south of the United States\u2019 southern border has seen extreme growth recently as drug cartels and other smaller smuggling operations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/illegal-immigration\">transport people to the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrug-trafficking organizations end up dominating the structure of migrant-trafficking groups,\u201d Guill\u00e9n told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/smuggling-migrants-to-the-u-s-is-big-business-11656680400?mod=Searchresults_pos1&#038;page=1\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s been a huge expansion in the last two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Mexican intelligence chief Guillermo Vald\u00e9s backed up Guill\u00e9n\u2019s claim, telling the WSJ: \u201cMigrant smuggling has become an industrial business. Demand is huge and rising, and that means you need more and bigger transportation.\u201d Vald\u00e9s comment on \u201cbigger transportation\u201d is a reference to the use of vehicles such as the abandoned tractor-trailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-rules-biden-administration-can-end-trump-era-remain-in-mexico-policy\">found<\/a> near San Antonio containing dozens of dead migrants believed to be part of a smuggling operation.<\/p>\n<p>The human smuggling business south of the U.S. border well over a one-billion-dollar annual industry. According to a 2021 United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/mpi-wfp-mit_migration-motivations-costs_final.pdf\">study<\/a>, migrants from just three countries \u2013 Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador \u2013 pay roughly $1.7 billion a year to smugglers, known as coyotes, or drug cartels to transport them and their families to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer believed to be a human smuggling rig abandoned near San Antonio sparked a firestorm of criticism against the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the immigration crisis ongoing at the U.S. southern border. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) placed the blame of over 50 migrant deaths on the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese deaths are on Biden,\u201d Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregabbott_tx\/status\/1541596214705135617\">tweeted<\/a> on Monday night after the tractor-trailer was found. \u201cThey are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/28\/politics\/joe-biden-san-antonio-deaths\/index.html\">called<\/a> the discovery \u201chorrifying and heartbreaking\u201d and denounced criticism of his border policies as \u201cpolitical grandstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Biden has reversed many of former President Donald Trump\u2019s border policies while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2022\/05\/27\/border-asylum-biden\/\">placing<\/a> greater emphasis on screening and admitting asylum seekers than cracking down on illegal migration. While migration across the U.S. southern border <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/border-patrol-encountered-more-than-212000-migrants-in-july-further-debunking-bidens-claim-that-migration-is-seasonal\">surged<\/a> in Biden\u2019s first months as president, the number of deportations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/deportations-have-dropped-90-percent-with-biden-in-office\">collapsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, The U.S. Supreme Court greenlit one of the Biden administration\u2019s latest efforts to scrap a Trump-era migration policy. The high court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-rules-biden-administration-can-end-trump-era-remain-in-mexico-policy\">ruled<\/a> in a 5-4 decision that Biden can repeal the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols policy, more commonly known as \u201cRemain in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The policy required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while the U.S. processed their asylum claims. Instead, the Biden administration seeks to overhaul the immigration system to expedite asylum claims. In May, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2022\/05\/27\/border-asylum-biden\/\">launched<\/a> new protocols for processing asylum claims that allows asylum officers to review claims and release claimants into the U.S. Rejected claims will be set aside for an immigration court to review at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has said that the new system will help deal with a backlog of hundreds of thousands of pending immigration cases. Critics says that the new processes will only worsen the ongoing immigration crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human smuggling operations led by Central American drug cartels have exploded since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, according to a former top Mexican immigration official. 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