Posted on 03/05/2021 5:30:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Cartels and smuggling networks on the U.S.-Mexico border are growing more sophisticated, bracing for a historic surge of illegal immigration this spring.
Cartels and smuggling networks on the U.S.-Mexico border are growing more sophisticated, bracing for a historic surge of illegal immigration this spring.
WATCH: Evidence Of Cartels' Wristband ‘Inventory System’ For Illegal Immigrants
The bands are put on migrants’ left wrist at stash houses in Mexico, just across the border, before the groups come into the U.S., Jones told The Federalist. The bands all have numbers linked to a database of personal information: name, phone number, destination in the U.S., and information about family members in the country of origin, in case payments are late. Jones said smugglers will verify cell phone numbers, both of the migrant and his family back home, at the time the wristbands are distributed in the stash house.
Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies reported earlier this week on the wristbands, quoting a U.S. Customs and Border official who confirmed that Border Patrol agents have been finding wristbands for months now. “It’s an inventory system,” the official told CIS. “They’re all over the place.”
This wristband inventory system is something new on the border (Jones first posted about it in mid-February), but it confirms what close observers have been saying for years: Illegal immigration along the southwest border is a big business, with revenue in the billions, and getting bigger every year.
Every person who crosses the border, whether man, woman, or child, is supposed to pay a fee to smugglers. These smugglers operate with the permission and cooperation of whichever cartel controls a particular area, and the cartel gets a cut of every smuggling fee that’s paid. Think of it as a “cartel tax.”
The way it used to be done is that migrants would pay up-front for passage over the Rio Grande and beyond the Border Patrol checkpoints just north of the border. But now, cartels and smugglers have turned this into a lucrative black market industry with a tiered pricing scheme for different nationalities. Prices are so high that almost no one can pay it up-front. According to Jones, who says he verified these prices with a cartel source, Mexican nationals must pay $2,500, Venezuelans, Peruvians, Ecuadorans, and Hondurans must pay $3,000, Chinese nationals pay $5,000, and Russians and migrants from the Middle East must pay $9,000.
The system amounts to a form of debt-bondage, which Jones says is “really a modern form of slavery.
The wristbands help keep track of who has paid what to whom. The need for such a system became apparent during the 2019 border crisis, when large groups of migrants — including one with more than a thousand people — were crossing the U.S.-Mexico border every day. The chaos and volume of illegal immigration meant that not everyone was paying, which meant the cartels were not getting their cut. The wristband system is an effort to correct that.
As conditions deteriorate along the border — just this week, an SUV carrying dozens of illegal immigrants was hit by a tractor-trailer in Southern California, killing 13, while dozens of newly released migrants in South Texas tested positive for COVID-19 — Americans need to understand that illegal immigration is a massive money-making scheme for international criminal syndicates, which exploit migrants every step of the way, including after they’re in the U.S.
President Joe Biden and other administration officials can insist all they want there’s no crisis at the border, but the truth is that the crisis is just beginning, and the cartels and smugglers behind it are about to make a lot of money.
If there was ever any doubt in anyone’s mind that the drug cartels were involved in this and the U.S. was just enabling it, there is no doubt now.
So if they talk they know who all to kill.
The left always shrugs off the humanitarian abuses of human trafficking. The same people that are crying out for slavery reparations are perfectly willing to accept (if not promote) the continued trade in people as commodities and inventory.
At least SOMEONE’S keeping track of ‘em.
The inventory system is to track payment....the Cartels couldn’t care less about the people, they are just a product......
Well hell, they’re all being outfitted with professionally produced “Biden” shirts so why not a $00.34 wrist band to keep track of them and to facilitate payment upon delivery, just like in the cattle business?
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Since President Joe Biden and other administration officials...insist...there’s no crisis at the border, the cartels and smugglers and politicians behind it are about to make a lot of money; 10% for the older guy
That’s what I was thinking—is there a cut of that revenue going to Joe directly or via Hunter?
is there a cut of that revenue going to Joe directly or via Hunter?
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Better ask Kamila.
Next they’ll putting tracking chips in them so that cartel members here can track them down and kill them if the parents don’t pay and they’ll send proof of death pics back to the parents.
Yep, done by the CIA too.
I guess the thinking is too out of the box to assume our guys acquire this list and use it to find and deport said individuals?
Illegal Immigration Is a Major Black Market Industry
Any questions why the democrat party loves it so much.
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I you bought the drink package they give you a green band.
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