
Axios reporter: Traffickers are using Biden's immigration policies to encourage migrants to cross into US
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Axios reporter Jonathan Swan said on this week's "FOX News Sunday" panel that drug traffickers and cartels are utilizing the Biden administration's open-door immigration policies to persuade more immigrants to cross the border into the United States.
"When you overlay a global pandemic with, in Haiti, the earthquake and the assassination of the leader, the economic crisis in the region – and it’s only getting worse….some of it is inducement from the Biden administration’s policies and traffickers using that to message people in the region ‘come on up, come on up,’" Swan said.
Nearly 16,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, were camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, last month. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at the time that up to 30,000 people were encountered in Del Rio since Sept. 9 and that as many as 15,000 were concentrated there at one time.