Illegal immigrants now paying up to $30,000 as cartels raise prices under Trump
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 6:41 p.m. on Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Stephen Marroquin-Mendez was stuffed inside a cabinet in the cab of a semitruck when authorities found him. The cabinet was latched from the outside, so he could not free himself.
The illegal immigrant from El Salvador told agents from the Department of Homeland Security last week that he had paid $8,500 to be floated across the Rio Grande and into Texas, owed $8,500 more once he reached Houston and would head to Virginia, where he was to meet up with an aunt living there.
His $17,000 price tag has become standard for illegal immigrants as smuggling cartels adapt to President Trump’s border shutdown.
Mexican migrants, who usually pay the lowest rates, now shell out $10,000 apiece. Prices as high as $16,000 are not unusual, according to The Washington Times’ database of border smuggling cases.
Central American migrants regularly pay $16,000 to $17,000, though some tell Border Patrol agents that they were to pay $30,000 or more to be helped across the border and taken deeper into the U.S.
A Chinese couple whom Customs and Border Protection officers found hidden in a Hyundai Tucson as it crossed the border from Mexico said they paid $45,000 apiece.
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