Europeans driven into hands of cartels as Brexit fuels migrant crisis in America
EXCLUSIVE: The Mirror's US Editor Christopher Bucktin reports from Roma, Texas, on how Brexit is fuelling the migrant crisis in America and finds scores of Europeans among those making the perilous journey from Mexico
ByChristopher BucktinUnited States Editor
06:58, 11 MAY 2021
Europeans among migrants in perilous journey into US after Brexit
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Brexit is fuelling the migrant crisis in America as Europeans unable to enter the UK turn to the US instead.
The Mirror found scores of Romanians among the tens of thousands of people crossing the fast-flowing Rio Grande from Mexico into the States.
Their perilous trek involves walking through the notorious city of Miguel Aleman, across the river from Roma, Texas, where we heard constant heavy gunfire between the rival Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas crime gangs.
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