A top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admits that people-smuggling cartels are thriving under the Biden administration. Migrants are paying cartels up to $15,000 “to facilitate their journey to the border,” says Blas Nunez-Neto, who is Alejandro Mayorkas’ deputy for border and immigration policy at DHS. “This is so lucrative [for the cartels], in fact, that we are now seeing the drug cartels increasingly becoming a key player in … actually moving people and becoming deeply involved in human smuggling….”
