Cartels smuggled in hundreds of illegal migrants Wednesday after the Supreme Court temporarily halted the expiration of Title 42.
A pool of migrants crossed the border into Yuma, Arizona, around 3:00 a.m. after cartels transported and dropped them off, Daily Caller field reporter Jorge Ventura reported. Footage captured migrants paying a cartel member to smuggle them to the U.S. The smuggler then returned to Mexico. The majority of migrants appeared to be from Cuba and Peru.
As Title 42 is in limbo, cartels continue to move massive groups of migrants into Yuma, Arizona, in the middle of the night this group was smuggled in, we spotted the human smuggler taking his last payments from the migrants before returning to the Mexican side @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/yDiZCuvsgW
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 21, 2022
A long line of migrants waited for several hours to be apprehended as the record-high number of migrants reaching the border overwhelms border officials. Migrants are currently waiting longer hours for processing after the Supreme Court imposed a temporary stay Monday on the expiration of Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing migrants to be quickly expelled in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. (RELATED: Thousands Of Migrants Form Lines At US-Mexico Border Awaiting The End Of Title 42)
Cartels on the Mexican side smuggle in multiple migrant groups from all over the world in the middle of the night into Yuma, Arizona , overwhelming officals and resources to the point migrants wait several hours to be apprehended as the lift of Title 42 is temporarily delayed pic.twitter.com/WWwdxzbfK1
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 21, 2022
Cartels overwhelming border patrol officals on the Yuma side after smuggling in several groups from migrants mostly from South America as migrants are anticipating the ending of Title 42. This is the current scene as we approached 3 am on the Yuma border @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/zGkUpBzTXG
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 21, 2022
MASSIVE: By far the biggest migrant line I’ve ever seen in Yuma. While you were sleeping, cartels smuggled several big groups of migrants from Russia all the way to Peru into the US , now hundreds await to be processed as Title 42 policy is in limbo @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/Z2iES1Vx2C
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 22, 2022
Migrants flooded the area around 4:00 a.m. as human smuggling operations increased.
“This is one of the more sophisticated human smuggling operations,” Ventura said. “This once again shows how much control the Mexican drug cartels have on this border. Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas continues to say that the border’s closed and the massive line shows different.” (RELATED: Manchin Says Ending Title 42 Is A Really Bad Idea)
Secretary Mayorkas says the “border is secure” but that isn’t the case in Yuma as cartels have full control here, in the middle of the night smugglers begin their massive human smuggling operations of migrants from all over the world @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/kcQmXI4AC3
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 22, 2022
The lines grew as migrants waited over three hours to be processed as of 7:00 a.m. Thursday. The overwhelmed Border Patrol agents attempted to control the situation, but appeared unable to communicate with the large crowd.
The current scene at the Yuma border 7 am local time as hundreds of migrants have been waiting 3+ hours to be processed by overwhelmed border patrol agents attending to other busy crossing points. The humanitarian crisis shows no signs of slowing down in Yuma @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/zH52Jp6wJR
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 22, 2022
“The humanitarian crisis shows no signs of slowing down in Yuma,” Ventura said.
Prior to the Supreme Court ruling on Title 42, approximately 2,000 migrants lined up at the border to await entry into the U.S. as they anticipated the expiration of the Trump-era policy. Title 42, which has allowed the expulsion of over 1.7 million migrants, has continued under the Biden administration.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Monday’s press briefing that the end of Title 42 does not mean the border is open.
“It would be wrong to think that the border is open, it is not open,” she said. “And I just want to be very, very clear about that.”