Border Patrol agents are hurt. In other words, it's largely a strategy of diversion and part of an aggressive response to a significant loss in profits that smuggling groups have experienced in recent weeks. A House Homeland Security Report published in , detailed how the profits grew rapidly while President Biden was in office, with a more lenient policy of letting migrants who arrived at the border remain in the country.
In turn, there was a rapid rise of migrants from around the world wanting assistance getting to the U. They became so emboldened, that they built and used tunnels to easily travel back and forth between Mexico and the United States.
Last month, some of those tunnels were discovered in El Paso Texas. During a Jan. The warnings about drone attacks could bring more urgency for the U. The military also has technology to knock drones out of air out of the air and hunt drones," Fabbricatore said. While the threat may have grown, the White House is touting its border measures are helping to secure the country. Since Donald Trump took office just a little more than two weeks ago and declared an emergency at the southern border, the number of encounters appears to have dropped dramatically, from between 1, and 1, per day during the final days of the Biden Administration to between and a day more recently.
Wed, 05 Feb GMT Story Infinite Scroll - News3 v1. Hurricane Tracker. Special Reports. Game Center. Now Wed Thu Loss of profits lead Mexican cartels to take action as border agents face new threats. A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, Wednesday, June 5, , near Dulzura, Calif.
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