As illegal migration explodes, concerns grow U.S. tax dollars may be aiding trafficking
The Biden administration is "completing the criminal conspiracy" of trafficking and smuggling humans across the border, former ICE Director Tom Homan alleges.
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By Sophie Mann
Updated: June 3, 2021 - 11:04pm
On a recent congressional trip to the Darién Gap in Panama, where tens of thousands of migrants begin their trek to the U.S. southern border, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., noted something remarkable.
Western Union outlets were stationed near migrant camps on either side of the gap, making it easy for relatives of migrants who are already in the United States to wire funds. Security officials say some of those funds are then used to pay off smugglers and members of cartels at various points along the migrants' trip to America.
Tiffany said he fears the COVID-19 stimulus payments approved by Congress may be driving some of the flow of money.
"They all get paid," he told Just the News A.M. TV show. "In fact, I suspect that some of those stimulus payments that are going out to illegals here in our country – that $1,400 they qualified for as the result of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill passed a couple months ago – are probably going back to the smugglers."
Tiffany isn't alone in his assessment.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/hold-record-migrant-flow-continues-us-taxpayers-fund-cartels-operate-deadly
