{"id":1982490,"date":"2023-07-25T17:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-dhs-official-cartel-smuggling-business-booming-under-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:35:53","slug":"senior-dhs-official-cartel-smuggling-business-booming-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-dhs-official-cartel-smuggling-business-booming-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel smuggling thrives under Biden, says senior DHS official."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fsenior-dhs-official-cartel-smuggling-business-booming-under-biden%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=1982490&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--><h2>The Cartel \u200bHuman Smuggling Business is Thriving Under President Biden<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cartel human smuggling business<\/a> is booming under President Joe Biden\u2019s watch. Don\u2019t take my word for it; listen to his Assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy, \u200bBlas Nunez-Neto.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u200b Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2023\/07\/25\/dhs-deputy-bidens-catch-and-release-grows-cartels-wealth-and-reach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Nunez-Neto recently said, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe see \u2064migrants now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-dhs-official-cartel-smuggling-business-booming-under-biden\/\" title=\"Cartel smuggling thrives under Biden, says senior DHS official.\">routinely paying smuggling organizations vast sums<\/a> of money \u2014 often more than $10,000 to $15,000 \u2014 to facilitate their journey to the border.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nunez-Neto added that those payments are now often winding up in the hands of \u2064the cartels.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is so lucrative, in fact, that we are now seeing the drug cartels increasingly becoming a key player \u2063in not just collecting \u200dtaxes for people who transit through their territory \u2014 which is\u2064 what we saw historically \u2014 but actually moving\u200c people and becoming deeply involved in human \u2062smuggling, not just in \u200cMexico, but throughout the region,\u201d he\u2063 said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The senior official\u2019s comments came during an interview with the Migration Policy Insitute.<\/p>\n<h3>The Biden \u200dAdministration&#8217;s Policies Fuel\u2062 the Smuggling Business<\/h3>\n<p>Nunez-Neto went on to state that the Biden administration\u2019s catch-and-release \u200bpolicy, as well as its asylum\u2064 rules, make the smuggling more profitable.\u2062 Cartels and other actors can practically guarantee that not only \u2064will their so-called clients be allowed to \u200dcross into the U.S., but they\u2019ll soon be able to work in America as well.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the Biden administration attracting more illegal \u2064aliens, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biden-admin-released-a-suspected-terrorist-into-the-united-states-after-he-illegally-crossed-the-border\/\" title=\"The Biden Admin Released A Suspected Terrorist Into The United States After He Illegally Crossed The Border\">immigration court backlog<\/a> is creating a compounding problem, he explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think we are seeing the court system essentially\u200d become a proxy legal pathway for people to \u2062come into the United States and work while they\u2019re here \u2026 \u200band it\u2019s leading to these huge backlogs that we are seeing in the courts as well,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus far, \u2063Biden\u2019s solutions to this problem have included a new \u201cparole\u201d system that\u200c allows migrants who would have otherwise been likely to cross the border illegally to enter the country. Under the new system, individuals seeking to enter\u2062 the country fill out a smartphone app that serves\u200b as their asylum paperwork, without the need for a \u2062visa.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration will accept more than half a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-just-two-weeks-of-real-refugees-to-poland-set-to-top-merkels-migrant-influx-of-2015\/\" title=\"Ukraine: Just Two Weeks of Real Refugees to Poland Set to Top Merkel's Migrant Influx of 2015\">million asylum seekers<\/a> per year, a \u2062recent report said. During the last two years, the administration \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/immigration-parole-migrants-us-expansion-biden\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has already allowed<\/a> at least 541,000 migrants into the country through the parole authority, Daily Wire reporter Mairead Elordi reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>To that extent, Nunez-Neto also said, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think in general, our approach has been that we would \u2062like to see\u2062 individuals using safe and \u2062orderly pathways and processes to come into the country. \u2026 We think there\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-sues-biden-administration-over-illegal-border-policies-that-harm-the-state\/\" title=\"Florida Sues Biden Administration Over \u2018Illegal Border Policies\u2019 That \u2018Harm\u2019 The State\">significant public benefit<\/a> associated with channeling people\u2063 into these lawful processes\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, as this author has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-best-way-to-get-order-at-the-border-is-to-close-it-once-and-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously observed<\/a>, the problem is that\u200b the Left\u2019s definition\u2064 of \u201corder\u201d simply means that illegal \u2063aliens \u2063are \u201cprocessed\u201d by \u200cimmigration officials and then released into the \u2064country via new \u201clegal\u201d measures \u2014 such as the smartphone app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrder\u201d to the Democrats does not mean having \u2062the necessary physical barriers or manpower necessary\u2062 at the U.S.-Mexico border\u2063 to deter entry. Nor does it include \u200benforcing policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-best-way-to-get-order-at-the-border-is-to-close-it-once-and-for-all\/\" title=\"Close the border to achieve 'Order at the Border'.\">effectively prevent illegal immigrants<\/a> from \u200centering the nation in the first\u200b place.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily\u200d represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human smuggling business thrives during President Biden&#8217;s tenure, as confirmed by Assistant Secretary Blas Nunez-Neto. Breitbart reported Nunez-Neto&#8217;s statement, revealing migrants frequently paying smuggling organizations over $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1982491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982490","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}