{"id":281760,"date":"2021-03-22T11:31:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=281760"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:31:49","slug":"traffickers-at-u-s-mexico-border-earned-as-much-as-14m-a-day-last-month-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/traffickers-at-u-s-mexico-border-earned-as-much-as-14m-a-day-last-month-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffickers At U.S.-Mexico Border Earned As Much As $14M A Day Last Month: Report"},"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%2Ftraffickers-at-u-s-mexico-border-earned-as-much-as-14m-a-day-last-month-report%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=281760&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2649.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Traffickers bringing men, women and children across the U.S.-Mexico border made as much as $14 million a day in February, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-mexico-border-traffickers-million-february\">report<\/a> published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrafficking is a multibillion-dollar industry,\u201d former Tucson Border Patrol Chief Roy Villareal told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these vulnerable populations use their life savings. Some are essentially indentured servants and they\u2019re working off this debt for a long period of time. In other cases, some of these migrants are asked to transport narcotics or some form of crime to work off a different part of their debt,\u201d said Villareal, who recently retired after 30 years with the agency.<\/p>\n<p>According to smuggling fee revenues estimated by the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), traffickers made $411.5 million in February ferrying people from Mexico and Central American countries to the U.S. border \u2014 or $14.7 million for each day in February.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as costs of the border crisis are rising for the federal government. The cost to U.S. taxpayers now tops $5 million a day, based on 2019 figures provided by Health and Human Services that put daily \u201cinflux\u201d shelter costs at $800 per illegal alien, Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional costs will include overtime and hotel costs for the hundreds of agents reassigned to Texas from other areas. For context, in 2019 Congress appropriated an extra $4.6 billion to handle a similar migrant surge. In 2014, Congress gave President Obama an extra $2.7 billion to deal with his border crisis,\u201d Fox wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Joe Biden\u2019s administration on Sunday awarded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency $86.9 million to house illegal aliens in hotels near the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel rooms will be used by families who have not yet been ordered deported but are undergoing immigration proceedings for their potential expulsion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contract, through Texas-based nonprofit Endeavors, provides 1,239 beds and \u2018other necessary services.\u2019 The families will receive a comprehensive health assessment, including COVID-19 testing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/biden-administration-awards-ice-86m-contract-to-secure-migrant-hotel-rooms-report\">according<\/a> to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Allman, president and CEO of Endeavors, said the money will provide \u201ccritical services to migrant families, which is a continuation of services we have delivered to the migrant population since 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Endeavors\u2019 services will also include \u201ctherapeutic regiments, educational resources and mental health care,\u201d Fox reported. \u201cEndeavors also offers culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, child-centered case management, home study, and post-release services for unaccompanied children and their sponsors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday said the surge of foreigners at the southern border is the worst in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>While still refusing to call the situation a \u201ccrisis\u201d \u2014 calling it merely a \u201cdifficult situation\u201d \u2014 Mayorkas said in a statement that \u201c[w]e are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas also said that many of the thousands of unaccompanied minors now detained in border facilities have family already in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn more than 80 percent of cases, the child has a family member in the United States. In more than 40 percent of cases, that family member is a parent or legal guardian. These are children being reunited with their families who will care for them,\u201d Mayorkas said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffickers bringing men, women and children across the U.S.-Mexico border made as much as $14 million a day in February, according to a new report published Monday.\u201cTrafficking is a multibillion-dollar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310916,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2649.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Traffickers At U.S.-Mexico Border Earned As Much As $14M A Day Last Month: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2649.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Traffickers At U.S.-Mexico Border Earned As Much As $14M A Day Last Month: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281760","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}