A Turkish migrant has revealed that he paid a cartel $6,500 to drop him off at the US border and plans to arrive in Los Angeles to work for DoorDash.
Ugur, 33, originally from Istanbul, said Fox News who hopes to live in Santa Monica and work for the courier service.
Ugur was part of a group of six people interviewed by the outlet in Jacumba Hot Springs, along the southern border.
The group was made up of people who had traveled from Turkey or Uzbekistan, and Ugur explained that his home country had declined under President Erdogan.
He told the outlet: ‘The United States does not give us a visa and we come here illegally. “If the United States government lets me work, I can work.”
Ugur, 33, originally from Istanbul, told Fox News that he hopes to live in Santa Monica and work for the courier service.
Hundreds of migrants camp by a campfire near the Rio Grande on the US-Mexico border on April 2.
Groups of migrants arrive at the Rio Grande in search of crossing into the United States
Ugur added: ‘Every year life in Türkiye is very difficult. More difficult. The economy is very bad and we don’t like Erdogan. He is [a] dictator, I hate him.
‘If you pay the Mexicans, the money from the Mexican Cartel allows you to come here. I pay $6,500 for Mexico and I come here.
‘I’ll stay at immigration for a day or two, then I’ll fly. I want to live in Los Angeles. If I do DoorDash I can earn $6,000.’
The same day Fox spoke with Ugur, about three dozen people were detained at the southern border.
Kate Monroe of Border Vets, a veterans group seeking to plug holes along the border, told the outlet: ‘This is a huge problem. From an infrastructural and economic point of view we will not be able to support this for generations.
“I can understand being somewhere else and being poor, not being safe, being hungry, but the way we force people to come doesn’t work.”
According to Monroe, he has collected passports from around the world near the border.
He added: “To find tons and tons of passports from Pakistan, Ethiopia, Ecuador and China just dumped on the other side so they could claim asylum, was a surprise to me.”
Kate Monroe, of Border Vets, said she routinely collected everyone’s passports near the border.
The latest figures from Customs and Border Protection showed that in the month of February the agency encountered 189,922 at the southern border.
This fiscal year alone, the agency has encountered more than 1.1 million people at the border, which began for the government last October.
The latest figures from Customs and Border Protection showed that in the month of February the agency encountered 189,922 at the southern border.
This fiscal year alone, the agency has encountered more than 1.1 million people at the border, which began for the government last October.
He record numbers of migrants who illegally cross the border between the United States and Mexico have migrated a major concern in this year of presidential elections in the United States.
During an interview with CBS News Last month, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said he was concerned about thousands of migrants evading authorities.
He told the outlet: ‘What keeps me up at night is the 140,000 leaks. Why are they hiding? What do they have to hide?
‘They bring? What is your intention? Where are they coming from? We just don’t know the answers to those questions.’
Owens said his department is on track to record about two million arrests by the time the fiscal year ends in September.
The chief said, “border security is a big part of national security,” and illegal immigrants being smuggled into the country are “exploiting a vulnerability” the nation faces today.
He said the immigrants who came to the United States this year come from at least 160 different countries, some of which are many continents away.