Mexico’s pledge to send 10,000 troops to the border comes as those on this side of the border are facing new threats.
The New York Post reported on an internal memo warning, “Mexican cartel leaders have authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to be used against US Border Patrol agents and US military personnel.”
In an interview John Fabbricatore, former ICE Field Office Director said, “They’re gonna try to do what they can to make these situations where the border patrol gets in trouble. Border Patrol agents are hurt. They’re responding to other situations so they can then get their smuggled goods across the border, and continue human smuggling human trafficking sex trafficking whatever their profit source is,” he said.
In other words, it’s largely a strategy of fun and part of an aggressive response to a significant loss in profits that smuggling groups have experienced in recent weeks.
A House Homeland Security Report published in 2023, detailed how the profits grew rapidly while President Biden was in office, with a more lenient policy of letting migrants who arrived at the border remain in the country.
In turn, there was a rapid rise of migrants from around the world wanting assistance getting to the U.S. border, with at least 80% of those coming, doing so with the help of smugglers they paid.
In turn, it’s estimated posters made about $13 billion a year on human smuggling alone.
They became so emboldened, that they built and used tunnels to easily travel back and forth between Mexico and the United States.
Last month, some of those tunnels were discovered in El Paso Texas.
Claudio Herrera, a spokesperson for U.S. Border Patrol said, “That tunnel goes from Ciudad Juarez to here in the El Paso Sector.”
