The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released “zero” migrants at the border during the last year, border chief Rodney Scott told Breitbart News.
\n\n“It’s not out officially yet, but we’re going to report soon a full year with no releases from the border,” said Scott, the commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
\n\nThe success shows migrants that they lose money when they try to sneak into the United States, Scott said at Breitbart News’s Border Security, Public Safety, and American Sovereignty Event in Washington, DC:
\n\nZero [releases] at the border. No new entrants coming in [because] they weren’t released. That sent a message worldwide that there’s no return on your investment: Why are you going to go pay the cartels [to] put yourself in that danger?
\n\nThe reduced success rate for job-seeking migrants also undermines the cartels’ other criminal enterprises, he added:
\n\nPeople miss this sometimes: The cartels need the illegal [migrants]. It’s a little extra money, but really they need them to overwhelm law enforcement at the border so they can bring the higher-threat commodities, whether it be narcotics, whether it be people that pay more money to avoid being fingerprinted, terrorists, criminals. But they…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
