A brazen people smuggler was filmed using a power tool to cut down a section of a 30ft steel border wall in Arizona, then taunted a camera crew on the other side as he waved a one-legged man and his family through.
An unidentified coyote — the Mexican term for a border smuggler — knelt down while using a power tool to break part of the gate so an elderly man with a walker and seven members of his family could pass through, without a US Border Patrol officer in sight.
Afterwards, the coyote that took them to the US can be seen in the gap it created and taunting NewsNation border reporter Ali Bradley.
“He flexes, he waves, he gives us a thumbs up when they’re done,” he told host Markie Martin on “Morning in America.”
About two hours later, Bradley said, the smuggler and his crew returned to cut more slats of the border wall in a remote area near Lukesville, which has been besieged by thousands of illegal border crossings since the summer.
“They were so rude about it. They brought out chainsaws, they had drills with them, they also brought out generators — like secondary crews went out there and brought out this other equipment,” Bradley reported.
NewsNation cameras captured the moment a group of smugglers used power tools to cut through a border wall in Arizona. NewsNation/Ali Bradley A smuggler was able to cut through a section of the border wall to make way for a one-legged Peruvian man and his family. NewsNation/Ali Bradley
“The plan was to cut the base of the bollard and put it behind the vehicle and rip it right off the wall.”
Again, Bradley said the trafficker began taunting him, blowing him kisses from the other side.
“They laughed and they just kept going, cutting it [border] bollard,” he recounted.
The reporter said he eventually called the Border Patrol to the area — the same place thousands of migrants use to pass through when the floodgates are left open in the summer — and crews scattered.
But they kept talking to Border Patrol agents through the wall, calling the agents “mi amigo” and asking them, “Que pasa? [What’s up?]”
“And this is one of the things, you guys, why the Border Patrol says it’s so important for them to be able to be out there doing that kind of work,” Bradley said, referring to the need to keep border agents in the field and stop operations like cut-offs. barrier, rather than working behind the scenes processing immigrants or doing paperwork.
“You know, here in Lukeville, the sector is really exploding,” Bradley said, as NewsNation cameras captured what he claimed were 600 to 700 single adults sitting by the border wall overnight.
NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley told how he saw smugglers using power tools such as electric saws and drills in an attempt to create a gap in the wall. NewsNation/Ali Bradley Those who come with families — like the Peruvian family caught on camera sliding through a wall — can skip the line and be sent to a facility to be processed for asylum claims right away. AP
Immigrants who cross the border submit themselves to legal processing and claim asylum, which continues to overwhelm Border Patrol agents, who have to document each individual.
Those who come with family – like the Peruvian caught on camera slipping through the wall – can skip the line and be sent to a facility to be processed for asylum claims immediately, he said.
“And it’s really a profitable game for the cartel guys there because they’re successful [money] put up a fist, a lot of money doing this, pushing the person through the wall,” Bradley said.
All summer long, the sluice gates at the border wall in Lukeville, Arizona, were left open. Daniel William McKnight In just 24 hours in September, more than 7,000 immigrants surrendered to US Border Patrol agents in Lukeville. James Breeden/Shutterstock for the NY Post
In just 24 hours in September, more than 7,000 immigrants surrendered to Border Patrol agents in Lukeville.
Later on Monday, the international border crossing was closed as Border Patrol agents there were overwhelmed by the sheer number of migrants entering the country.
The closures were made “to redirect personnel to assist the US Border Patrol by taking immigrants into custody,” Customs and Border Protection said.
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