Illegal border crossings in the United States have trickled to almost nothing in the first two months of the Trump Administration. After four years of former President Biden's disastrous policies, and asylum procedures, the U.S. finally has a secure southern border. Deportations have also played a huge role in that, as the shine of coming to America has worn.
The crackdown has created enough fear now where people are just self-deporting from the United States. But there is an old saying in the world of politics: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." The cartels are now using the deportations and border crackdown to still generate new forms of revenue. They are now actively smuggling people out of the United States, back to Mexico. That is a laughable far cry from the Biden Administration, which was allowing over 200,000 illegals per month into the country.
Bob Price of Breitbart Texas says this is their way of working around President Trump's crackdowns to still make money. But it is at the same time a designed by-product of Trump's border plans.
"One of the intended consequences of the border crackdowns is that people would start doing self-deportations," he says.
The action of people self-deporting, after decades of a borderline invasion, is a sign of incredible progress. Immigrants fear being caught by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It also plays right into Trump's plans, which his team has made clear from the beginning.
"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said early on that if you self-deport, there is an opportunity to come back in legally...but if we catch you, and have to send you back, that is it, you are done" says Price.
Gone are the days of illegal immigrants from Haiti getting free work permits, and illegals getting social security cards. All of this came from a clueless, and negligent Biden Administration. The new border era has arrived.
Human smuggling, in some ways, is the only real form of easy revenue left. The cartels have used it as their 'perfect product' in recent years.
"With drugs, they have to get that to the end user before being paid...with human smuggling, when you bring them across the border, and they get picked up...one, you have already been paid, or two, they have signed an agreement to pay you," Price says. "They do not care if the 'product' gets to its final destination or not."
Finally, by deportation flight or just doing it themselves, the illegal immigration wave appears to be over in the United States. The cartels might still be finding ways to make money off it, but even those days are coming to an end soon.
"The federal government is going to be cutting down as well on those revenue making abilities, attacking their banking, and people doing business with them that provide support," says Price.
Illegal border crossings have hit 25-year lows under the Trump Administration. While the cartels are still finding ways to adapt to the Trump way of the world, the days of them running things on the border are numbered.
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