{"id":1683746,"date":"2022-10-11T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683746"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:52:31","slug":"thanks-to-bidens-border-crisis-the-million-dollar-migrant-smuggling-industry-is-now-worth-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thanks-to-bidens-border-crisis-the-million-dollar-migrant-smuggling-industry-is-now-worth-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks To Biden\u2019s Border Crisis, The Million-Dollar Migrant Smuggling Industry Is Now Worth Billions"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthanks-to-bidens-border-crisis-the-million-dollar-migrant-smuggling-industry-is-now-worth-billions%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=1683746&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>While President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/11\/biden-ukraine-winter-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cscrambles\u201d<\/a> to address Ukraine\u2019s border war with Russia, the U.S. border sits vulnerable to a host of criminal activity that is quickly seeping into all 50 states. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s problematic because in just a year and a half, Biden\u2019s border crisis has made it increasingly easier for transnational criminal organizations raking in hundreds of millions of dollars each year smuggling migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border to become even more profitable and powerful. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2022\/10\/06\/fact-sheet-counter-human-smuggler-campaign-update-dhs-led-effort-makes-5000th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bragged last week<\/a> that there has been a \u201c500% increase in human smuggling disruption activity compared to similar past operations\u201d and that it has \u201crecently surpassed 5,000 smuggler arrests.\u201d However, those figures are but a small dent in the actual number of smugglers who have successfully escorted hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossers into the U.S. each month since Biden\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>In May of 2018, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-115shrg34313\/html\/CHRG-115shrg34313.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that human smuggling operations are making \u201c$500 million a year, or more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, human smuggling operations are lining the pockets of transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). They are not humanitarian endeavors. Smugglers\u2019 priorities have profits over people, and when aliens pay them to get here, they are contributing $500 million a year, or more, to groups that are fueling greater violence and instability in America and the region,\u201d she warned. <\/p>\n<p>More than four years later, the criminal enterprises responsible for scoping out border weaknesses and using those to funnel more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/09\/20\/migrants-custody-border-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2 million illegal border crossers<\/a> into the U.S. in just 12 short months are now raking in an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220930064222\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/25\/us\/migrant-smuggling-evolution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated $13 billion per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the same cartels and criminal rings responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/23\/the-border-crisis-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-mexico-a-cartel-crisis-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increasing corruption in Mexico<\/a> now control a multibillion-dollar operation that has the funds, experience, and lack of accountability from the federal government to sustain their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/15\/the-real-cruelties-for-illegal-migrants-lie-in-bidens-open-border-policies-not-a-trip-to-marthas-vineyard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deadly smuggling industry<\/a> for decades to come. <\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris and top U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MHASQIxsCb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shift the blame<\/a> for this influx of migrants on Republican governors who have made a spectacle of shipping migrants to blue strongholds across the country. <\/p>\n<p>But the border crisis was a disaster long before migrants arrived in Martha\u2019s Vineyard and at Harris\u2019s residence. It was Biden\u2019s undoing of Trump-era border security that prompted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take that kind of drastic action in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>Biden unleashed the floodgates of illegal immigration and all of the other criminal activity that accompanies it when he eradicated key border security measures such as the \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy, which required asylum-seekers to await court decisions in Mexico, and Title 42, a policy designed to expedite the expulsion of illegal border crossers during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>His weak border rhetoric on the campaign trail and from behind the presidential seal encouraged migrants to begin their perilous journeys to the U.S. and to enter illegally \u2014 a fact that even illegal border crossers aren\u2019t scared to admit. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"hjEeJIZivfGXBDt3wF1LV7MCW2pQuNdrgP\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reporter: \u201cHarris said that the border is closed. Is the border closed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Illegal Immigrant: \u201cThe border is open\u2026everybody believes that the border is open. It\u2019s open because we enter. We come in, free, no problem\u2026We came illegally.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ymk2blTcXt\">pic.twitter.com\/Ymk2blTcXt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1570396002326044675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>As a result, the border has become a hub not only for human smuggling but also for the smuggling of illicit and deadly drugs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/corporate-media-panic-over-fentanyl-overdoses-but-wont-talk-about-the-border-crisis-causing-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fentanyl<\/a>, which is the main culprit of the nation\u2019s current overdose epidemic. Even people who are not connected to criminal rings have begun stashing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/10\/17\/the-post-roe-abortion-underground?utm_brand=tny&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegal abortion pills from Mexico<\/a> in their luggage to send to American women and middle-school girls in pro-life states because they know they can get away with it. <\/p>\n<p>Considering most Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/polls\/poll-more-americans-trust-gop-than-dems-on-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trust Republicans more than Democrats<\/a> to handle immigration and border security issues, it\u2019s no surprise that red candidates in key midterm races are calling for solutions that Democrats in the White House and Congress are unwilling to face. Whether Republicans will be successful in their attempts to curb the <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-designates-mexican-cartels-as-terrorist-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">border \u201cterrorists\u201d<\/a> is yet to be determined, but one thing is clear: Regardless of the GOP\u2019s future attempts to fix the crisis, Biden\u2019s enabling of the disaster has only been good business for smugglers who seek to profit handsomely from the exploitation of migrants.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While President Joe Biden \u201cscrambles\u201d to address Ukraine\u2019s border war with Russia, the U.S. border sits vulnerable to a host of criminal activity that is quickly seeping into all 50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1683748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}