U.S._ Smuggling cartels still raking in cash despite lower border numbers

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Smuggling cartels still raking in cash despite lower border numbers

A Texas trooper talks with migrants as they walk along concertina wire and try to cross the Rio Grande at the Texas-U.S. border in Eagle Pass , Texas, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) more >


By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 4:42 p.m. on Sunday, July 30, 2023


Miguel Angel Salazar-Estrada, who rafted over the Rio Grande, told Border Patrol agents that his family paid $17,000 for his smuggling from Guatemala.

Juan Manuel Lara Alvarez, a Mexican arrested as he was smuggled into Arizona, said he was paying 200,000 pesos, or a little shy of $12,000, for his journey.

Yanshua Su, whom a smuggler stuffed into a compartment built under the seats of an SUV, said she was paying 300,000 yuan, or about $42,000, to be delivered from China to Los Angeles.

The Biden administration has celebrated a drop in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to sneak across the border over the past couple of months. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has characterized the decline as a blow to the smuggling cartels that control the market.

Yet those who make the attempt are paying more, according to The Washington Times’ database of smuggling cases, which tracks payments in near-real time and which suggests that the cartels aren’t taking as big of a hit as Mr. Mayorkas would like.

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