Caught on camera: Arizona border agents expel 14 migrants into desolate desert town in Mexico

Border Report ^ | Oct 23, 2020 | Sandra Sanchez

[BeauBo]

Jose Garcia Hernandez, a 39-year-old construction worker from Chiapas, Mexico, straggled behind the group of seven other migrant men Wednesday afternoon after U.S. Border Patrol agents expelled them into the desolate border town of Sasabe, Mexico, just feet from the one-gas-station town of Sasabe, Arizona.

Wearing a blue surgical mask, camouflage baseball cap, and a backpack, Hernandez said he was apprehended while walking along Highway 86 near the tribal reservation lands of the Tohono O’odham Nation, about 40 miles away. He had been trying to get to Phoenix, which is about 170 miles north of where Border Report witnessed him being expelled into this Mexican desert town. Population: 2,000.

Sasabe, Mexico, has a couple of convenience stores, but there are no taxis or buses, and most migrants who are dropped here have no money or means to get anywhere else... volunteers say that anywhere from 100 to 125 migrants per day are being expelled in Sasabe...

This area has become a hotspot for expulsions in just the past month...

Part of the reason many migrants are crossing into the United States through these tribal lands is that it’s where the border wall is not being built. Several lawsuits have challenged the building of the 30-foot border wall on the tribal lands, so the familiar rusted metal bollards that span for miles on the border of southern Arizona have miles of gaps where the tribal lands are located.

And that is where cartel and coyote traffickers are slipping people illegally across, locals tell Border Report...

Sasabe is totally controlled by the cartel,” Kocourek (a volunteer with Tucson Samaritans, a nonprofit group) said.

[BeauBo]

The drug smuggler and human trafficking flows in Arizona are already quickly shifting due to the rapid building of new border wall system.

The Tohono O'Odham Nation Indian Reservation is now beginning to see what their life will be like, as they maintain open stretches of border, while all around them the Border is getting walled off. Increasing numbers of desperate men, and determined cartel desperados, are already wandering through their neighborhood, inevitably bringing more deaths, crime and violence onto their Reservation.

Those photographed being expelled for this article, were all carrying the same type of camouflage backpack - issued by cartel coyotes. Most will likely just be restocked by the cartel, and shuttled back to their start point across from the reservation, to start walking again.

[dfwgator]

[airborne]

Coyotes? How are coyotes even able to shop for backpacks?

[AndyJackson]

coyote traffickers

People are trafficking coyotes? We don't have enough on our side of the boarder?

[BenLurkin]

expel 14 migrants into desolate desert town in Mexico

In other words....sent them home.

[NFHale]

Aw, they’re breaking my heart.

GTFO and go home.

[Enterprise]

So what’s the problem here? Have the Indians forgotten their culture? A few arrows and some scalps might convince the cartels to take their backpackers somewhere else.

[Macoozie]

Let their bloated bodies rot in the sun. Food for the other kind of coyote.

I DON’T CARE.

[donozark]

Looks like a bunch of crazy cat ladies have turned into do-gooders. Helping cartel drug runners. Stick to cats, ladies.

[RightGeek]

So how were they going to get to Phoenix without any money?

[Reno89519]

Coyotes legal to shoot on sight in most areas of the US?

[BeauBo]

Arizona immigration ping. The “hero” of this story, was heading for Phoenix.

Illegal immigrants (cartels) are shifting their traffic through the Tohono O’odham Reservation, as the walls go up on either side.

Notable increase in the last month, likely to grow more pronounced from here on out.

Maybe they will want new wall in a second Trump term, as their problems mount.

[RightGeek]

[married21]

The tribe has territory and people on both sides of the border. They did not want to cut themselves in two. Not sure what they will decide if the coyotes keep sending people through.

[Robert DeLong]

Threaten the tribal leaders that every member of the tribe will be considered as aiding & abetting human trafficking. Further threaten that a wall will be built around the the entire tribal lands, and that any member of the tribe that enters the U.S. will be immediately charged with human trafficking and imprisoned. Watch them okay a border wall so rapidly it will make your head spin.

[faucetman]

This inhumane!

From now on all illegals to be expelled into towns with at least TWO gas stations! /s

[Regulator]

This is terrible.

Pobrecitos.

When I was a teenager I used to roam all through the desert there just North of Sasabe. It was hot, like it always is in the Sonoran desert, but who knew that it was so awful on the other side that even Mexicans who were from there would be oppressed by having to *gasp* be in....Mexico.

Of course we were all armed back then and shooting at anything that moved (Javelina, snakes, Palo Verde boring beetles....) but I don’t recall seeing anyone walking through the desert other then wild white children...like me. If we had seen them, probably woulda shot at them too...hey, it it moves!

:^)

This is all ridiculous, sniveling crap. Boo hoo. How terrible of the BP to apprehend Los Inmigrantes Illegales and send their butts back.

There is no right of invasion and they know it. There’s a legal crossing at Sasabe and has been for over 150 years. They can get through legally any time they want.

[BeauBo]

“So how were they going to get to Phoenix without any money?”

The cartel would likely pick them up at some meeting place, North of the Border Patrol’s highway checkpoints. Maybe some temporary lodging and food at a stash house, maybe contact friends or relatives.

[Cold Heart]

The part of their history they forgot was the predation of Indians by Mexicans in Mexico.

[UnwashedPeasant]

It is good for the press to repeat this sad story so people south of the border will think it is pointless to try breaking into the US.

It was evil of Obama to encourage poor people to hire cartels to help them across the border.