Trump has argued that we have a crisis at the border and that not having a wall on the border makes it easier for both drug and human trafficking to thrive.
Well here’s more proof that Trump is not wrong about this:
FOX NEWS – Dozens of illegal immigrants from Central America, including six unaccompanied teenagers, were found living in a stash house used for human trafficking in southeastern New Mexico, officials said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said last week they discovered 67 illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador cramped inside an unfurnished and filthy 20-foot-by-20-foot wooden shed in Dexter, N.M.
The shed was an addition to a travel trailer and had no working toilet. A sign written in Spanish and placed on the bathroom door read, “Don’t use the bathroom.” ICE agents said the immigrants were given minimal food and water.
Special Agent Jack P. Staton called the conditions “deplorable” and said it shows that criminal human smuggling organizations “have no respect for human life.”
“Human smuggling is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, and the individuals being smuggled are viewed as cargo by the criminal networks. ICE Homeland Security Investigations continues to investigate this organization and will hold them accountable for their illicit activities,” he said in a statement.
Tomas Miguel Mateo, a 38-year-old Guatemalan native, was charged with harboring illegal immigrants and unlawfully re-entering the United States after being previously deported.
The photo at the top is a picture of the shed they were stuffed into when ICE found them. 67 people. It’s just evil and these people are lucky to be alive.
But equally as important, this underscores the need for a wall along the southern border.
Even if these people were trafficked through a point of entry, having a wall would free up resources that could be used to prevent this from happening to other people.
But hey, nevermind how Democrats put politics ahead of funding the wall. Defeating Trump is more important that preventing this scourge of human trafficking.