Posted on 02/04/2024 11:04:21 AM PST by dennisw
A New Jersey-based migrant gang is smuggling hordes of illegal immigrants into the US across the Canadian border for a price of $6,000 a head, a new report reveals.
The human smuggling gang took root after its founders were briefly detained and cut loose by federal immigration authorities.
The ringleaders, migrants from Guatemala and Colombia, snuck across the Mexican border and set up shop in the Garden State, running the lucrative scheme while dodging the feds, according to a report by the Daily Mail.
While US Border Patrol agents grapple with an overwhelming flow of asylum seekers from Mexico, the Jersey-based gang has helped spark an under-the-radar surge in crossings along the northern border, the outlet said.
“With the huge asylum-seeker concentrations and with all of those people crossing the border and with the huge increase in the amount of enforcement that is going on on the southern border, it is probably, if you have an option, a lot easier to try to get in without inspection across the Canadian border,” said Philip Kasinitz, a professor of immigration studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The migrant smugglers are capitalizing on it — charging a hefty bounty to sneak immigrants from Quebec and into Vermont, where scrutiny is much less intense, the Mail said.
In June, Elmer Bran-Galvez, allegedly a driver for the smuggling ring, was stopped by border agents in Franklin, Vermont transporting four illegal immigrants, telling authorities he was paid around $1,800 for each illicit passenger — but was not charged, according to the outlet.
Last year, more than 10,000 migrants were busted trying to get into the US from Canada illegally, nearly five times the 2022 figure — an indication of the massive rush across the northern border, the outlet said.
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Two of the New Jersey gang’s ringleaders — Jhon Reina-Perez, 34, and Victor Lopez-Padilla, 35 — were finally arrested by federal authorities, but it hasn’t stopped the flow of migrants.
Reina-Perez, a Colombian national, crossed the US southern border in Texas in April 2022 and was released pending “immigration proceedings” but failed to check in with authorities and was busted again in October of that year — only to be released again.
These are not anchor babies anymore, these are anchor migrants.
“dodging the Feds”, hahahahahaaa!
And we all know about this, we see it happening, the authorities know it’s happening, they know where they are, know who is doing it, know how they go about, know the trade routes, know how many illegals are brought over each day, know where the illegals are sent after they come into the country and YET, nothing, nothing is done about it.
I’ve noticed that guerrilla armies in the Middle East use Toyotas.
Gotta love American capitalism.
Who’s coming in from the north? Chinese? Conservative Canadians? Truck drivers?
Why would illegals want to seek refuge from the socialist paradise of Canuckistan?
But of course they are.
So, let’s send another $40 billion to ukeland and ignore it for another year (or until that expected ‘event’ happens). /s
And the *poor* migrants are getting that kind of money just where, again?
What a joke.
Feds aren't looking for anyone, they're probably aiding and abetting the smugglers.
NJ-based gang of migrants charging $6K a head to smuggle illegal immigrants.
But but Moe they came from a poor country where nobody has any money.
But...but...why leave Canada???!!! They are “progressive!” They have GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE!!!
How are these illegals getting into Canada and then getting into America?
Thanks
A New Jersey-based MIGRANT gang is smuggling hordes of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTs ...
How do those people at the Post get out of their Gordian Knots at bedtime to put on their PJs? How can they call a gang of illegals just "migrants" but the people they are smuggling are "illegals"?
This has to be the most insane, most contorted, most illogical, most inconsistent word usage in the history of the English language.
It took Joe Biden to revive the slave trade in America. Astonishing.
Just make sure Joe gets his 10%. Thats part of the deal.
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