If you have been following what’s going on along the border, then you probably heard about the 513 migrants that were packed into two tractor trailers in an attempt to illegally cross the border into the US.
Mexican officials discover 513 migrants stuffed into two tractor trailers bound for the US
TIME reports that the migrants each paid about $7,000 to be stuffed into ‘near suffocating’ 105-degree northbound trailers. The smugglers expected to make about $3.5 million on the haul, not counting any cartel pay-offs for protection.
The number apprehended probably isn’t out of line with a typical day along the border. But what is especially noteworthy is that a handful of the passengers weren’t even from Latin America. There were 12 from India, six from Nepal and three from China.
Who knows how or why these Asians chose illegal entry via Latin America. But this is part of an ongoing narrative of ”migrants” from further abroad sneaking across the southern border into the US.
I don’t suspect that India or China is exporting terrorists or al-Qaeda sleeper cells to the US. But Homeland Security officials have confirmed that border patrol agents in southern Arizona have detained individuals from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon and Sudan.
For the human smugglers, cash talks. Criminals, terrorists, farm workers – they’re worth the same to the smuggler. And when we call for better border security, we’re dismissed as unreasonable people that will probably want a moat with alligators…
Neil Rosekrans is a founder and partner of StateBrief.com. He has been a guest political commentator for the Arizona Law Channel, NBC's Sunday Square Off and The Terry Gilberg Show on KFYI. Neil earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and earned his MBA and Masters in Public Policy, with an emphasis in International Relations, from Pepperdine University.
Neil and his wife, Beth, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. 
