A border patrol agent has claimed that cartels are the ones that control the border between the United States and Mexico.
The anonymous agent said news nation that the US government does not have control of the border, which has fallen into the hands of the cartels.
“The most important thing is that we don’t control the border, the cartel controls the border,” the agent said.
‘Everything we do is a reaction to the things they have planned. Usually we’re chasing pawns while the kings and queens do what they want.
The agent asked to remain anonymous because he said he is “terrified of speaking to the media” and possibly losing his job because of it.
The anonymous agent told News Nation that the US government has no control of the border, which has fallen into the hands of cartels.
The agency has struggled to keep up with the record number of migrants crossing the border.
The cartels are believed to make and sell the IDs so that immigrants traveling to the United States from Asia and elsewhere can pass checkpoints by Mexican police as they travel through the country.
The agent added: “Our border is not secure at all, and even if it were, we do not have the manpower to handle the situation that is happening right now.”
They warned that “no one will come to protect them” because the agency “has been defunded and overwhelmed.”
The Border Patrol has struggled to keep up with record numbers of migrants attempting to cross the border as agents are forced to spend more time processing asylum claims.
The number of migrants has skyrocketed as organized crime has gained more power and expanded its presence in Mexico, and cartels often levy a tax on smugglers to allow them to work in the region.
As DailyMail.com previously reported, cartels have been recruiting American soldiers to smuggle migrants into the United States, in a worrying new trend.
So far, two have been arrested for participating in illegal human trafficking schemes.
The cartels are also believed to provide Mexican IDs to Chinese citizens waiting to cross the border into the United States.
The cartels are believed to make and sell the IDs so that immigrants traveling to the United States from Asia and elsewhere can pass checkpoints by Mexican police as they travel through the country.
Migrants then destroy or discard the documents when they cross the U.S. border, making it harder for authorities to identify them and easing their path to asylum.
San Diego has seen more than twice as many Chinese citizens cross its border in the first half of this fiscal year than in all of 2023.
Most fly to Tijuana before paying cartels up to $35,000 to take them to the United States.
Migrant arrests in San Diego reached 8,989 during the week ending April 16, according to figures the agency published in X. Meanwhile, Tucson, which had previously been the region with the highest number of crossings, had 7,500 arrests during the week ending April 19.
The Texas National Guard is conducting an operation using non-lethal weapons, specifically a pepper spray gun, to disperse migrants maintaining a camp within the Rio Grande.
Recent data shows the immigration crisis is shifting west to border states like Arizona and California amid a crackdown on Texas by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Recent data shows the immigration crisis is shifting west toward border states like Arizona and California amid a crackdown on Texas by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Mexican authorities have also beefed up security on their side of the border with Texas.
The volume of arriving migrants exceeds resources in San Diego, and authorities report that up to 1,000 people a day are being released at the city’s train and bus stops.
Crossings in the sector increased from 31,562 in February to 33,784 in March, although this total was slightly lower than the 34,371 migrants who entered San Diego in December.
DailyMail.com previously revealed that a US Border Patrol chief warned that his agents are being overwhelmed by the number of Chinese migrants crossing the border illegally and that communist spies could be disappearing.
Chief Border Patrol Agent Anthony Good of the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector told the Homeland Security Committee during a private hearing in September last year that his agents were “doing everything they can to find out why [individuals from other continents are] come”, but that “information can be hidden” and “their agendas, their ideologies and the reason for their arrival could be overlooked.
