Heavily armed men escort illegals across US border, surveillance video shows

The FBI arrests American militia members but does nothing about armed Mexican smugglers. Fucking LOL!

New government video obtained by Fox News shows heavily armed men at the U.S.-Mexico border escorting a migrant mother and son into the United States. Border Patrol officials told Fox News this is an unusual event and express concern that it will become a more regular occurrence – possibly leading to violence.

U.S. Border Patrol surveillance cameras caught the armed smugglers escort the migrant family at 10 p.m. Saturday near the town of Lukeville in the southwest corner of Arizona.

The video shows four to five men in full tactical gear and masks – carrying long guns and AK-47 assault rifles – escort a Guatemalan woman and her 8-year-old child under a vehicle barrier. The armed escorts turned back across the border. The woman and child turned themselves into border agents, who responded to the incursion.

The area is almost identical to where last week agents apprehended 399 Guatemalan immigrants who arrived in several buses just a 100 yards from the border. The area contains no pedestrian fence and is adjacent to the busy Highway 2 in Sonora, Mexico.

Their nighttime entry under the cover of darkness contrasts with the bold daytime illegal crossings that have become common since migrants realized the U.S. is seemingly powerless to prevent “catch and release.” It also took advantage of forces spread thin along the border due to the surge of Central American unaccompanied children and families. Recently, border patrol cameras have captured video of cartel-operated drones monitoring their movement.

Roughly a dozen agents responded when camera operators noticed the incursion Saturday night. The mother and son remain in government custody.

The breach underscores what officials have been telling an indifferent Congress for months about being overwhelmed by the surge of asylum seekers crossing the border.

Border officials said the incident represents how criminal organizations are behind the lucrative surge of Central American immigrants. Guatemalans are paying roughly $7,000 to smugglers for transport from their home to the U.S. border.

“This is highly unusual and highly concerning to the agency,” said a border official who briefed Fox News. “These armed individuals along the border represent an escalation of tactics. This is not mom and dad and kids deciding to head to the border. This is a no kidding, orchestrated effort to bring individuals to the US. It is not just the numbers. It’s who is running this enterprise.”

Well this answers why the FBI arrested the militia leader at the border. They must be covering for these heavy coyotes. FBI still balls deep with progressive activists it seems. No one is doing anything about it either. Sad.

The BP cannot crossover into Mexico to detain anyone.

“New government video obtained by Fox News shows heavily armed men at the U.S.-Mexico border escorting a migrant mother and son into the United States. Border Patrol officials told Fox News this is an unusual event and express concern that it will become a more regular occurrence – possibly leading to violence.”

Apparently, none of the editors at Fox know how to spell “illegal”

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And yet, how many articles have I read over the last few years that a significant number of Americans are either living paycheck to paycheck or are one paycheck away from losing everything. This issue was recently brought to light again by the government shutdown.

Yet, a poor illegal can scrape together 7K?

I wonder what the add-on fee is if you want to drag a “recycled” kid along with you.

Migrant is correct. They aren’t illegal until they cross the border into the US.

A whole lot of the illegals arrive here as indentured servants to the cartels/coyotes who bring them here.

They work that debt off as sex slaves, drug runners/mules and by operating safe houses and stash houses in the US.

Maybe I am taking the article too literally.

Are paying versus indebting themselves to pay.

I’d imagine there are a lot who pay up front. If deported, what is the guarantee of ever receiving the money?

Think of all of the illegals working here sending money across the border just for this very reason. Although I’m sure indentured slavery plays a very large role as well.

Where would they get that kind of upfront money coming from the poorest parts of Central America?

That’s more than a year’s average pay in many of the countries they are fleeing from.

If they get deported they are just screwed. If they get caught en route, they are just screwed and will end up working for the cartels for life.