A video was recently released by Yuma Sector Border\nPatrol officials showing a border bandit robbing illegal migrants \u2013 men, women,\nand children \u2013 at gunpoint as they entered the United States. The incident\noccurred in June, and the armed robber crossed the border back into Mexico after\ndespoiling the migrants of their meager possessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According<\/a> to Randy Clark, Breitbart reporter and retired 32-year United States Border Patrol veteran, \u201c[t]he bandit situation is not a new phenomenon to the southern border.\u201d Ever since its founding in 1924, the Border Patrol \u201cbattled for control of the border landscape to prevent bandits from committing armed robbery, rape, and murder \u2014 sometimes in broad daylight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In spite of this, Clark points out, \u201c[i]n the 1980s, near San Diego, California, armed bandits roamed almost freely each night as hundreds of migrants made the trek to seek work in the booming agricultural industry in Southern California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Border Patrol established a border bandit task force to enter the canyons near San Ysidro, California in an effort to reduce bandit activity.\u201d Eventually, things like building fencing, lighting, and increasing USBP personnel levels decreased border bandit activity, but \u201c[a]s the video demonstrates, however, the problem has not been completely eradicated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Logically but sadly, soft-on-enforcement, equivocal\n(\u201cdon\u2019t come now<\/em>\u201d) Biden-Harris policies and rhetoric are fuel for\nborder banditry. Crime thrives and increases when there is chaos, anarchy, and\npermissiveness \u2013 and that is certainly what the current administration has\ncreated through its self-inflicted border crisis which is still largely refuses\nto fix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It also makes logical sense, that the more illegal border crossers there are (e.g. 180,000 Southwest border \u201cencounters\u201d in May<\/a> alone, and untold numbers who were not encountered), the more individuals there are to rob or otherwise victimize. Of course, bandits are not the only dangers the migrants face, given that they are preyed upon by such bad actors as human and drug smugglers, as well as brutal gang members (MS-13, etc.) and other criminals infiltrating the migration flows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And let\u2019s not forget that criminals and bandits\nvictimizing illegal border crossers can also target American citizens living in\nthe border zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another major lesson here should be the harsh reality of illegal migration, contrary to its rosy, romanticized portrayal by the unregulated-borders crowd (the \u201cnew Ellis Island<\/a>,\u201d an \u201cact of love<\/a>,\u201d etc.). The apologists for mass migration \u2013 both within the government and outside of it \u2013 should realize that, if they truly care about the migrants (which is doubtful), they are doing them a grave disservice and exposing them to danger by encouraging and tolerating illegal migration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A video was recently released by Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials showing a border bandit robbing illegal migrants \u2013 men, women, and children \u2013 at gunpoint as they entered the United States. The incident occurred in June, and the armed robber crossed the border back into Mexico after despoiling the migrants of their meager possessions.<\/p>\n