Smugglers Look for New Populations to Bring Across US Border

As the number of family units from Central America dwindles, due to new policies taking effect at the U.S.–Mexico border, smuggling organizations are looking elsewhere for new business.

“They saw that we were making progress towards stemming the flow of illegal immigration from the Northern Triangle countries—really taking billions of dollars out of their pockets—and they shifted,” said Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), during an event with the Center for Immigration Studies on Dec. 20.

He said cartels and smuggling organizations are shifting towards supporting migration from more far-flung countries, as well as Mexican nationals.

“I mean Indians, Africans, Haitians … the list goes on and on and on,” Morgan said.

Many Africans fly into South America, before working their way north through Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and finally Mexico.
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