Coyotes are panicking since Trump won the election.
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, human smugglers in Colombia, Panama, and other South and Central American countries are making a mad dash to make it across the southern border before Trump shuts it back down.
From the dense jungle connecting Panama and Colombia to the banks of the Rio Grande, human smugglers are spreading a message to U.S.-bound migrants: Hurry up and sneak in before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Trump's second term is creating an incentive for migrants to try to reach U.S. soil before the Jan. 20 inauguration, because many anticipate the president-elect will dismantle legal pathways to entry. Those paths include a U.S. government app that allows people to apply for U.S. asylum while in Mexico and then cross legally when they have an appointment — a system created last year that some migrants think will be upended by Trump.
Human smugglers are doing a figurative "going out of business" sale, and telling illegal aliens wanting to invade the US that they have until January 20.
They even tell them to use the CBP One App while they still can to "legally" enter the US.
Now, WSJ says there's no evidence of a surge at the border now, but there is plenty of evidence that these coyotes are wanting to cause and facilitate such an invasion.
In southern Mexico near the Guatemala border, some 4,000 migrants formed three caravans last week and set out for the U.S., volunteers and Mexican officials said. But many of them dispersed after being quickly "hooked," or lured, by human smugglers, said Luis Villagrán, a Mexican migrant advocate who organizes caravans in the city of Tapachula. Caravans offer safety in numbers for migrants, but are easy targets for authorities, while smugglers offer faster routes to the U.S ...
Near the Darién Gap, a strip of wilderness connecting Panama and Colombia, one smuggler told migrants in a WhatsApp group message seen by The Wall Street Journal that he expects more deportations under Trump, and wished them luck not getting caught trying to cross the U.S. border.
Just in case anyone thought that a Trump presidency wouldn't make a major difference on day one, the coyotes know that they are about to see a major crackdown.
Wait until they hear about Tom Homan!
That ought to put the fear of God in any would be illegal alien.
Many Venezuelan migrants in Mexico say they fear a shutdown of the CBP One mobile phone app, the main portal to claim asylum in the U.S.
Although CBP One provides asylum access for migrants once they enter Mexican territory, the waiting lists are long and the process can take months. More than 852,000 people have scheduled appointments since the app was introduced in January 2023, according to U.S. government data. Venezuelans are among the top applicants.
This is probably the wildest thing about the US immigration policy, that Venezuela has released prisoners and sent them to the US, and now Venezuela largely refuses to cooperate with the US to background check these "asylum seekers."
And now, Venezuelan "refugees" are told to hoof it to Mexico and try to get a free Biden flight into the US.
This is an absolutely wild state of affairs. I cannot wait for January 20th.
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