In 2022, Border Patrol had 70,000 encounters at our southern border with migrants from Asia and Africa, and in 2023 that number more than tripled to 214,000.
At least part of the reason for this drastic change can be attributed to these "pseudo-legitimate" travel agencies in Senegal's capital city of Dakar which are offering package deals to get Senegalese to our southern border.
Yup, these travel agencies just keep popping up in Senegal and honestly that's kinda how the free market works. These agencies see an opening at our southern border and they exploit it for cash. I mean, I can't blame them.
Migrants are being offered "complete packages" to the US border with Mexico by "pseudo-legitimate" travel agencies sprouting up in Senegal, according to a US Customs and Border Protection official.
The travel agencies are run out of Senegal's capital city of Dakar and tout visa-free travel to Europe, and then to Mexico. Once in North America, customers are connected to a smuggling organization that will help them cross the southern US border illegally, according to the US official.
I didn't get a number on how much this trip costs, but man oh man is this quite the package deal. First they take you to Europe — and maybe you'll just want to stay there, who knows? — then you get to travel all the way to Mexico where they'll connect you to a bus line run by smugglers. From there, the smugglers will get you across the US border and into the desert where you hopefully won't die.
This is one impressive package deal!
The smuggling organizations have built out a large bus line in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, sending dozens of buses a day to random spots along the US-Mexico border to "facilitate migration," according to the official …
Senegalese people accounted for more than 9,000 arrests in Tucson, Ariz., from Oct. 1 to Dec. 9, where agents have encountered migrants from about four dozen Eastern hemisphere countries.
9,000 Senegalese in just two months. And that's just in Tucson!
We're the world's most popular illegal travel destination, folks!
Something to be proud of?
Nah, I don't think so.
This surge at our border will continue until we actually do something about our southern border — so mark these Senegalese travel agencies down for closure come 2025.
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