According to a report from the U.S. Border Patrol, in a recent attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants throughout the United States, the smugglers would use fake FexEx vans packed with illegals in order to move them undetected.
The latest smuggling attempt was thwarted by Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas where three agents discovered a FedEx van full of 26 illegal migrants. According to U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector Chief Anthony Good, the agents apprehended the illegal migrants and smuggler on Wednesday. Between October 2022 and April, the Border Patrol has experienced a major influx of illegal migrants entering from the southern border totally over 1.2 million encounters according to federal statistics.
Under the Biden administration, more than 1.5 million illegal migrants have entered the United States without being apprehended which the agency refers to as "known gotaways." In a statement on Wednesday from House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, he alleged "dereliction of duty" of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and will continue his investigation further.
“Based on Border Patrol’s statistics of criminal aliens they DO catch, those gotaways could include as many as 1,180 aliens guilty of DUIs, 285 guilty of sexual assault, and more than three dozen guilty of murder,” Green went on to say.
“Last fall, an illegal alien struck and killed Florida sheriff’s deputy Mike Hartwick before fleeing the scene. The alien had entered the country illegally in October 2021 in Texas and was sent back to Mexico, but at some point re-entered the country as a gotaway,” Green said.