{"id":1982515,"date":"2023-07-25T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smugglers-caught-using-fake-border-patrol-truck-to-sneak-in-migrants\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:06:15","slug":"smugglers-caught-using-fake-border-patrol-truck-to-sneak-in-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smugglers-caught-using-fake-border-patrol-truck-to-sneak-in-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Smugglers nabbed with phony border patrol truck smuggling migrants."},"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\">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%2Fsmugglers-caught-using-fake-border-patrol-truck-to-sneak-in-migrants%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=1982515&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>Smugglers Caught Using \u200bFake\u2063 U.S. Customs\u2064 and Border Protection Truck to Sneak Migrants Over Border<\/h2>\n<p>Smugglers were caught using a fake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-customs-and-border-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a> (CBP) truck to try to sneak migrants over \u2064the U.S.\u2064 border in California\u2062 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The truck, which was tricked out in Border Patrol decal stickers and fake Department of Homeland Security license plates to resemble a\u2062 real CBP truck, was initially spotted by Mexican immigration officials.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican authorities said they found the\u2063 truck on July 22 in\u200d Mexico close to \u200cthe California border with 17 migrants huddled inside.<\/p>\n<p>The smugglers likely told the migrants something like, \u201cHop on, we already \u200dhave \u2064an agreement. This is\u200d a \u2064US Border Patrol vehicle. With this, they won\u2019t ask you anything before you cross the border,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/25\/smugglers-caught-using-fake-border-patrol-truck-to-sneak-migrants-over-border\/\">said<\/a> David P\u00e9rez Tejada, delegate for the Mexican government\u2019s National Migration Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062truck was confiscated by U.S. authorities after it was \u2063found.<\/p>\n<p>The smugglers were arrested at the border, and the migrants were transferred\u200b to Tijuana police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>A\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-walgreens-gives-5-year-old-boy-an-adult-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Fla. Walgreens gives 5-year-old boy an adult dose of COVID-19 vaccine\">similar incident happened<\/a>\u200d in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A fake CBP vehicle \u2063transporting 10 migrants was spotted \u200band apprehended by Homeland Security and Border Patrol agents\u200d near the Tucson border. In that case, the driver of the fake Border\u2063 Patrol car and the 10 migrants were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Looks like a legit Border Patrol vehicle, right? \u2062 <br \/>It\u2019s\u2063 a fake. Border Patrol in Tucson, AZ arrested a human smuggler who basically \u200bcloned a Border Patrol SUV, had a fake uniform, and had 10 illegal immigrants in the car. All in \u200bcustody. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> <br \/>Courtesy: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USBPChiefTCA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USBPChiefTCA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y3uoL42HEt\">pic.twitter.com\/Y3uoL42HEt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_)\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1430552141270245384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Smugglers&#8217; Ingenious Methods<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s not just\u2062 government vehicles that smugglers\u2062 try to clone either.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, CBP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs42.com\/border-report-tour\/cloned-fedex-vans-used-to-smuggle-migrants-cbp-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> smugglers used fake FedEx\u2062 vans to try to smuggle migrants into El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Last year in June, 53 migrants died in an 18-wheeler that was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/29\/human-traffickers-at-border-are-experts-at-disguising-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decked out<\/a> \u200dto look like a legally registered truck. \u200bThe\u2063 truck made it past a Texas border checkpoint and arrived in San Antonio, where it started\u200d having mechanical problems and was abandoned by its driver.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, border authorities warn\u2063 that it \u2062is extremely dangerous for migrants to depend on smugglers to \u200dhelp them make the trek up \u200cthrough Central America and over the U.S.\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-trooper-says-abbott-border-policies-have-stepped-over-the-line-into-the-inhumane\/\" title=\"Texas trooper criticizes Abbott's border policies as 'inhumane'\">border\u2063 illegally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Migrant deaths have soared this summer from dangerous conditions and scorching temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Border\u2063 Patrol agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/regions\/new-mexico\/smugglers-telling-migrants-to-run-in-triple-digit-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encountered<\/a> 96 dead migrants in the El \u200dPaso \u200barea this fiscal \u200cyear, the agency said, more \u200bthan three times the 29 bodies agents\u200b found \u2063in fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently recording a significant number of migrant \u2062deaths in New Mexico due to\u2064 the desert terrain and extreme heat. Migrants do not have sufficient water and there is minimal shade,\u201d Border Patrol \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/regions\/new-mexico\/smugglers-telling-migrants-to-run-in-triple-digit-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement to Border Report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing a lot of people crossing during the hottest part of the day, which is something \u2062we normally had not seen before. That ends up being a very \u200bdangerous thing,\u201d Andy Buckert, \u200da watch commander at the Santa \u2064Teresa Border Patrol Station, told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Biden administration has allowed hundreds of \u200cthousands of new illegal migrants into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, during the last two years, the administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/immigration-parole-migrants-us-expansion-biden\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has allowed<\/a> at least 541,000 migrants into the country through the parole authority,\u2062 which allows the federal\u200b government to let \u200din \u2063migrants without visas.<\/p>\n<p>Exacerbating the issue is the end of Title 42, a\u200b COVID emergency rule that allowed authorities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smugglers-caught-using-fake-border-patrol-truck-to-sneak-in-migrants\/\" title=\"Smugglers nabbed with phony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbp-ice-release-reports-on-border-arrests-seizures\/\" title=\"CBP, ICE release reports on border arrests, seizures\">border patrol<\/a> truck smuggling migrants.&#8221;>deport migrants quickly back<\/a> \u2063to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Title 42 expired on May 11 after several previous attempts by the Biden administration to end it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smugglers nabbed in California on Saturday for using a counterfeit U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck to transport migrants across the border. The truck, cleverly adorned with Border Patrol decals and phony Department of Homeland Security plates, was first noticed by authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1982516,"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-1982515","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\/1982515","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}