Organized crime linked to caravans; illegal immigration

DailyKenn.com — Caravans of "refugees" appear to be paying tolls to gang lords as they pass through their turf, a reports reveals. What's more, criminal organizations appear to be using the caravans to distract American officials clearing the way for illegal drug shipments into the USA. 

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"So, basically, every step of the way from the southwest border down to the Northern Triangle, you’re pretty much on territory either controlled by gangs or by cartels," according to former federal prosecutor Josh Jones.

Jones made the observation while discussing the dynamics of Joe Biden's border crisis with Virginia Allen during The Daily Signal podcast. He co-authored Joined at the Hip: Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration, a report published in March by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

The Biden administration appears to be intentionally allowing non-citizens to cross the southern border as if there were no immigration laws. To our knowledge there is no public evidence that Joe Biden is directly profiting from the organized crime.

Excerpted from texaspolicy.com ▼

Key Points

• Criminal organizations are largely responsible for the violence that permeates Mexico and the Northern Triangle and serve as a major motivation for people to leave their homes and migrate north.

• Most organized crime along smuggling routes to the U.S. resembles that of a governing authority: Criminal organizations control swaths of territory, regulate which routes can be used and when, and tax the smugglers and migrants who want to use them.

• Transnational criminal organizations also sometimes use migrant crossings to distract and overwhelm U.S. Border Patrol agents ahead of drug shipments.

Excerpted from The Daily Signal ▼

Allen: So, these individuals in countries that you mentioned—El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala—they’re wanting to leave their country because of the violence. But then in turn, the same individuals who are responsible for furthering that violence are also the ones that are really, deeply entrenched in a part of this process of individuals migrating and getting across the border illegally, correct?

Jones: That is correct. And it’s not just violence, it’s economic opportunity. They see economic opportunity in the United States that they don’t have down there, but those two things are intertwined in Central America—the economic opportunity, or the lack thereof, and the violence or the lack of security in those countries.

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