Border Patrol: Cartels telling migrants to fight their way past agents
Immigration
Assaults, attempts to take guns from federal officers reported in El Paso Sector
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Jun 23, 2021 / 08:32 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 23, 2021 / 08:32 PM CDT
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (Border Report) – Migrant deaths and rescues are up in El Paso and Southern New Mexico. So are assaults on Border Patrol agents by migrants instructed by smuggling organizations to evade arrest even if it means physically fighting their way past American law enforcement.
“As flow and desperation increases by people being constantly apprehended (and expelled), so do the assaults, because people don’t want to get caught,” said El Paso Border Patrol Sector Chief Gloria I. Chavez. “Usually what we get is a lot of guys that confront our agents and try any tactic to overcome that agent including assaulting the agent, making an attempt to take his or her weapon and continuing on.”
Mexican authorities and border experts have told Border Report that transnational criminal organizations – the Mexican drug cartels – are not only charging a pass-through fee to migrants but have begun to replace mom-and-pop type smugglers with hardened gang members.
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