Border Patrol Agents Bust Multiple ‘Fraudulent Family Units’ Who Illegally Entered US

Law enforcement found two pairs of individuals in separate incidents posing as family units while unlawfully entering the United States, Customs and Border Protection authorities announced Tuesday. CBP agents discovered…

IJR SyndicatedApr 15, 20213 min read

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agents continue to identify children who are fraudulently used to circumvent our

Immigration

system,” Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem said.

“Through the interview process, agents are able to identify discrepancies. The safety and well-being of these children is of the utmost importance.”

Border Patrol encountered more criminal migrants over the weekend. In another Tuesday news release, CBP reported that officials apprehended both a convicted murderer and a Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member illegally crossing the border Sunday night.

“During processing, agents discovered one subject, a Mexican national, had a prior arrest by the Harris County Constable for assault causing bodily harm,” the release stated of the convicted murderer.

“The subject was convicted and sentenced to 30 days confinement. Less than six months after his release, he was arrested again by the Houston Police Department for murder intentionally causing death,” the release continued.

“He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 20 years confinement. The subject was deported from the United States in May 2020.”

March saw the highest flood of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in 15 years, as well as a 71 percent surge from February in numbers of unaccompanied children unlawfully entering the country, NPR reported.

According to the outlet, the spike also marked the largest number ever recorded of unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. illegally in a single month.

And those benefiting from this border crisis — while authorities are stretched in dealing with mass illegal migration at the southern border — include human smugglers and traffickers who, in February, allegedly made up to a whopping $14 million a day, Fox News reported.

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According to the New York Post, the border crisis began following President Joe Biden’s reversal of several Trump-era border policies aimed at combatting illegal Immigration.

The change encouraged large groups of migrants from Central America and Mexico to enter the country unlawfully, bringing along several unaccompanied minors, the outlet reported.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador put the blame for the crisis on Biden, saying that the “expectations” Biden has set have made migrants think they will be admitted into the U.S. after crossing the border illegally.

Neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris has visited the border since the beginning of the migration surge. Harris plans to visit Mexico and Guatemala to supposedly solve the situation without seeing the issue firsthand by going to the border.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.