Immigration
Mexican Cartel migrant smuggling profits rivals Fox News Corp. gross revenues, says report
Their profits have rocketed from $500 million to $13 billion in just four years
October 9, 2022 2:08pm
Updated: October 9, 2022 2:15pm
Mexico’s deadly drug cartels have turned migrant smuggling into big business.
In the past four years since 2018, the vicious drug traders have multiplied their $500 million profit 26 times to as much as $13 billion, according to a report published by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
A recent follow up from a July 26 New York Times report by the New York Post says that while Democrats “are napping” peacefully through the US-Mexico ‘border’ crisis they engineered” that “the Mexican cartels’ income from smuggling undocumented immigrants is up 2,500%, and that if the cartels merged into a corporation, their 2022 gross revenues would rival Fox Corporation.
According to the Post, Fox News Channel’s parent company earned $12.91 billion in the year ending June 30, 2021, and $13.97 billion 12 months later.
“This fact might awaken Sleepy Joe Biden and the lazy Left: Mexico’s human-trafficking cartels are now as big as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham,” the Post wrote.
According to the report Border Patrol agents apprehended 951,568 undocumented immigrants during President Donald Trump’s final 19 months in office. In President Joe Biden’s first 19 months, the agency encountered 3,588,877 undocumented immigrants, a spike of 377%.
Most concerning, a minimum of 266,000 unaccompanied migrant children were encountered at the southwest border since Biden was sworn in, according to Custom Border Protection data. According to a tweet published by FOX News correspondent Bill Melugin, “That’s enough to fill up approximately three Rose Bowls.”
During Trump’s reign in office between 2017 and 2020, 11 terrorists were apprehended at the border, and in 2020, 69,000 undocumented migrants were detected on the border but escaped into the United States.
In the 2021 fiscal year—four months of Trump and eight of Biden—there were 389,155 gotaways up 464%, and in 2022 that number escalated to 599,000 — a surge of 54% versus FY 2021 and 768% compared to FY 2020.
A dozen U.S. senators have reached out to the U.S. Marshals Service about fugitives escaping across the border. In an August 30, 2022 letter the senators noted that, “So far in FY22, CBP has apprehended more than 9,000 foreign criminals including 53 for homicide or manslaughter, 283 for sex crimes and almost 900 for assault, battery and domestic violence.”
On the House side, 14 Republicans sent a Sept. 23 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, expressing concerns that “between October 2021 and July 2022, more than 130,000 Venezuelan nationals were encountered after entering the United States illegally.”
The Representatives expressed additional concerns that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime “is deliberately releasing violent prisoners early, including inmates convicted of ‘murder, rape and extortion,’ and pushing them to join caravans heading to the United States.
