Migrants are the new big business of the cartels

Almost 10 years ago, in December 2013, the United States authorities began to warn that the drug cartels were already involved in the enormous business of people trafficking.

Today after nobody has done anything to stop it, that business is so big that it represents at least 10,000 million dollars a year.

To begin with, we have to go several years back. In the past, migrants had to hire coyotes to help them cross into the United States and guide them along the way.

Today this changed. My sources in the border patrol and in other police corporations in the United States confirm to me that the migrants have to hire the cartels, because obviously, it is those same cartels that have had control of the Mexican routes for several years. access to the United States.

For this reason, today the migrants on their way before being stopped by the border patrol, are detained by the cartels, at each stop they have to show the blue, red, green or yellow bracelets, which will tell the smugglers that the migrant is already He’s paying the cartel people. “Be careful” the tax paid to the cartels is not for crossing into the United States, it is just for letting them pass through Mexican territory to the border.

The bracelets also indicate how many immigrants accompany the bearer and how much each one is paying if it is a family. The price also varies depending on the country from which you are migrating.

What I am telling you means that a person can be paying from $1,500 for it to $10,000 or more if it is a whole family.

Do the math with me and let’s take an average–let’s say $3,000 per person. Multiply that by the more than 250,000 migrants trying to enter the United States every month, and that comes out to more than $750 million a month. Multiply that by the twelve months of a year, that gives you over $9 billion in a year.

Now title 42, which is the pretext of a health law, which Washington has used to deny entry to asylum seekers, will cease to be effective at all points of entry into the United States on Wednesday, December 21. That will open the doors to hundreds of thousands more desperate migrants. And that could also double the average of 2,500 migrants per day.

In 10 years, three Mexican governments and three United States governments have passed, while in Mexico the number of deaths, insecurity and violence have grown. On the US side, in that same period, there have been three presidents who have ignored drug trafficking and now human trafficking.

During all those wasted years, the Mexican cartels and their partners inside and outside the United States developed a highly efficient system of trafficking people, drugs, arms and money. They manage routes, highways, local roads and even state territories on the Mexican side and routes and tunnel networks in the United States.

The history of this is fascinating, the Chinese are involved too.

Now China arrives as a new player, with a new money-laundering system that is more efficient and cheaper than that of those who traditionally cleaned money from drugs.

Until a few years ago, the money launderers were Colombians, Europeans and even from the Middle East, these partners of the traffickers transported and cleaned the drug money. The new partners today clean money from human trafficking and for that they use the international banking system. They avoid using the US banking system, because of the surveillance it has. When the Chinese realized the size of the new business, they competed against the old money launderers and used the oldest of business techniques, charging less for their services.

Now everyone goes with the Chinese because they are the cheapest. The police agencies of the United States call this that I am going to tell you about:

“THE MO”- The “Modus operandi” of the laundering process.

The Chinese identify a business that needs money, or is too ambitious, and they work the owner until the small, medium or large company agrees to receive bags of cash. They are not very large amounts, from 30 to 150,000 dollars. That money obviously carries different serial numbers, the voluntary and involuntary accomplices who fall for this new ruse, before receiving this money, receive the serial numbers contained in the cash that they were given.

Once the origin of the money is verified, the total is divided into several accounts in various amounts to avoid suspicion of laundering. Each of these “commercial accounts” commissions foreign banks to collect transfers. This is done by converting US dollars to Mexican pesos. Once with these converted pesos, you can make transfers to banks in the United States with the pesos that are already… “Laundered and clean money.”

This “new business” is already being investigated by the Treasury Department and, indeed, by all the government intelligence agencies in Washington, who privately and confidentially admit that the Chinese are doing such a good job and so cheaply that now even the United States criminal organizations such as “Cosa Nostra” in New York have already entered the big business of Chinese money laundering.

Other criminal groups such as the Polish Mafia, the Marielitos Hispanic Americans, and the so-called Saltis-McErlane Gang are also involved in money laundering.

It was because of that association that the American corporations that monitor the movements of the money realized that the cartels were cleaning their cash with the Chinese. The hidden informants that these organizations have within the criminal groups informed them of what was happening.

Now, you are surely wondering why so many people in huge numbers are suddenly migrating to the United States and who is causing these migrations?

One reason could be that the rule taught in marketing master’s degrees is being applied and that the same cartels are motivating migrations. The rule I am referring to says… “When there are no spontaneous customers, we must create the need for one or more segments of the population to buy our product.”

The second possible reason is that the crises on the continent and in the world are motivating so many people to seek a new life in the United States without much need for foreign aid. That is why many Peruvians began to appear. The Venezuelans have already seen the enormous problem they have caused, and this week an obscure bulletin from the US immigration authorities claimed that the numbers of Cuban migrants had never been as large as they are now.

As I inform you, migrant smuggling is an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but it must be clarified that it still does not rival the profitability of illegal drug trafficking. It’s just another aspect of the business.

The Border Patrol says that, in 2021, it discovered and disabled 306 hideouts. In those arrests, agents detained more than 3,200 migrants. Realize; those numbers are up from 66 arrests and 487 immigrants the year before, in fiscal year 2020.

In closing, you must not be left with the “erroneous perception” that the cartels are the only organizers and operators of the process of smuggling immigrants to the United States. Because there are still independent coyotes who, coupled with rampant corruption and complicity among law enforcement along smuggling routes on both sides of the border, help this recent phenomenon attract so much attention.

In the end it is the vulnerability of the migrants at the hands of all those involved in this trafficking, which has attracted all the participants in these operations. Including Chinese money launderers.

good intentions

Previously, the United States fingerprinted all migrants it detained, but the Biden administration discontinued that practice. Today those who cannot enter through one border in Mexico attempt the same entry through another or others. In this process, if they had been saved from falling into the hands of the traffickers, the repeated attempt to enter turns them over. That is why we must consider in this new humanitarian crisis that good intentions very often… pave the road to hell.