Biden’s border policies help cartels and traffickers thrive

The recent discovery of 53 illegal aliens dead in an abandoned tractor-trailer in the scorching summer heat of San Antonio, Texas is the latest example of a failed border security strategy by the Biden administration. Eleven others remain hospitalized.

This is the deadliest event involving human traffickers and smugglers in our country. There is no doubt that the Biden administration’s inaction, mixed messages and blatant incompetence led to this tragedy.

Chaos on the southern border has ensued for the past 16 months. Drug cartels and drug rings are businesses; cruel and illicit businesses, but businesses nonetheless. Like legitimate businesses, they depend on the predictability of the market to maximize their profits. In terms of immigration, nothing has been more predictable since January 2021 than the refusal of the federal government to apply American immigration laws.

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As a result, business is booming for cartels, smugglers and traffickers. By some estimates, cartels rake in billions of dollars with no end in sight.

As these infamous actors profit financially, they leave behind a trail of human suffering and death. Any illegal alien smuggled or trafficked to the southern border is subject to some form of mental, emotional or physical abuse. Many women, including young girls, are sexually abused along the journey north.

A Border Patrol agent talks to immigrants before transporting some of them to a processing center on December 9, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. Women and children were transported first.
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Unaccompanied foreign children, a particularly vulnerable population, are trafficked and trafficked registration numbers because of the Biden administration’s decision to exempt them from Title 42 deportation authority. Other children are recycled by traffickers because of the lax treatment of “family units.” Guaranteed entry into the United States is the best marketing message to ensure that the human trafficking business model continues to thrive.

But the carnage does not end there. The cartels are using the humanitarian crisis at the border as an opportunity to dump drugs into American communities. They accomplish this by using illegal aliens as drug mules, or they take advantage of gaps at the border caused by Border Patrol agents apprehending and processing illegal aliens.

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Border Patrol agents working at the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint near Amado, Arizona seized over 50 pounds of suspected fentanyl and arrested the driver of the vehicle on October 13, 2021.
(U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

In 2021, annual drug overdoses in the United States topped 100,000 for the first time ever. Fentanyl, which is manufactured in China and transported by Mexican cartels, is now the leading cause of death among young Americans. U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl in fiscal year 2021.

Each pound of fentanyl is roughly equivalent to 250,000 lethal doses. That means enough fentanyl has been captured crossing our border to kill 2.5 billion people or seven times every American. And that’s just the amount taken. It is not known how much of this deadly drug is circulating in our communities.

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Let’s be clear: any illegal alien crossing our southern border must pay smugglers and traffickers. Policies we have implemented at the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration, including Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as “Remain in Mexico”, Asylum Cooperation Agreements with Northern Triangle countries and the streamlining of asylum processing to root out fraudulent fraud and frivolous claims, disrupted the smuggling and trafficking networks run by the cartel.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a daily press briefing at the White House on June 16, 2022.
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The Biden administration inherited the most secure border ever, then quickly threw the playbook in the trash.

Predictably, the White House’s response to the Texas tragedy misses the mark. President Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continues to push misinformation to the American people saying “the fact is the border is closed.” With record illegal human trafficking, trafficking and narcotics across the border, this statement is beyond belief.

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The American people deserve political leadership that tells them the truth and implements effective policies to restore law and order.

Make no mistake, the disaster of human trafficking at the border is a direct result of the failure of the current border security strategy. We deserve better.

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Robert Law is the director of the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at America First Policy Institute and a former senior official in the US Citizenship and Immigration Services during the Trump administration.