Southern Border Crisis: Illegal Immigrants Dress in Camouflage, Climb in Naco Wall To Run Into US Soil

Fox News reporters got footage of the immigrants climbing over a wall near Naco, using a rope to carefully drop through barbed wire before racing off into US territory.

The operation took barely 45 minutes to complete in broad daylight on Tuesday, and no migrants were caught by border police.

Migrants Unlawfully Cross US-Mexico Border by Disguising

Multiple top Department of Homeland Security officials have informed the publication that the year 2022 will see around 500,000 "gotaways," or migrants who unlawfully cross the border but are never apprehended.

According to the man directing the migrants over the Naco wall, he executes similar operations there every day, where DHS authorities estimate that roughly 160,000 "gotaways" have crossed the border.

According to the Border Patrol Union, the heavy traffic in the region is the result of agents being pulled from the field to conduct administrative and processing jobs instead. Tensions are high in Arizona, where Gov. Dough Ducey signed an executive order last month to build a makeshift border wall in Yuma to deter migrants from entering the state.

In response to the Biden administration's border failures, Ducey has joined his Texas counterpart, Gov. Greg Abbott, in busing undocumented migrants to left-leaning sanctuary communities.

Daily Mail reports that US President Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to address the "root causes" of immigration, while border officials have made over 2 million border apprehensions this fiscal year, an all-time high.

This figure exceeded the already-record-breaking 1.7 million interactions in fiscal year 2021. Despite the spike, Harris argued on Sunday on Meet the Press that the border was safe.

Meanwhile, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced the arrest and indictment of eight persons on Tuesday in connection with an operation that unlawfully trafficked hundreds of migrants across the US-Mexico border.

The operation headed by Joint Task Force Alpha resulted in the arrest of Erminia Serrano Piedra, better known as "Boss Lady," and seven others suspected of helping to the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.

Per Fox News, the announcement comes just one day after Vice President Kamala Harris declared the southern border "secure." At a press conference on Tuesday, officials said the eight people charged conspired to illegally transport and shield hundreds of migrants in "dehumanizing" conditions where the threat of serious harm and death was "ever-present," for a profit of nearly $2.3 million.

According to officials, these transitory criminal groups have become "intertwined" with the cartels and represent a "huge, multibillion-dollar piece of a wide jigsaw combining drug trafficking and criminal activities" along the southern border.

Immigrant Deaths in Southern Border Surge

According to CNN, fiscal 2022 is on course to be the bloodiest year on record for migrants at the US-Mexico border. According to the study, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recorded 748 migrant deaths at the border since October 1, 2018, when fiscal 2022 began.

This is on course to surpass the number of deaths recorded in fiscal 2021, when 557 migrant deaths were recorded, establishing a new low. As high temperatures remain in parts of the Southwest, the ultimate death toll in 2022 is almost expected to rise further in September.

Furthermore, the DHS data only include deaths confirmed by border agents, potentially undercounting hundreds of migrants who died in their attempts to reach the United States.

A multitude of variables are contributing to the increased lethality of border crossings, including hot temperatures, an increase in migrant crossings during the typically calmer summer months, and crossings in increasingly distant places, in part to circumvent border barriers.

Migration has also remained high throughout 2022, with additional migrants arriving from countries other than Mexico and Central America's so-called Northern Triangle, which includes Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.