Border Patrol Cracks Down On Migrant Smuggling Scheme In Yuma, Arizona After Smugglers Impersonate Agents

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RUTH STYLES / DAILYMAIL.COM Life has become so bad for the “coyotes” who smuggle migrants across the Mexican border that some dress like Border Patrol agents in an attempt to deceive the men and women who actually do that job. Agents in Yuma, Arizona, captured three men, two Americans and a Mexican, a few days before Donald Trump's inauguration when they tried to impersonate the Border Patrol to smuggle 24 migrants, mostly Mexicans, into the cou…

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Border Patrol impersonators arrested in Yuma amid Trump crackdown

Criminal organizations turn to desperate measures as migration through Arizona's border city drastically declines. According to Daily Mail, three smugglers were apprehended in Yuma, Arizona for impersonating Border Patrol agents in an elaborate scheme to transport 24 migrants across the Mexican border just days before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration. The suspects, identified as Uriel Perez-Cardenas, Jovani Sanchez-Cortez, and Kevin Vald…

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Border Patrol Cracks Down On Migrant Smuggling Scheme In Yuma, Arizona After Smugglers Impersonate Agents

In recent months, life at the border in Yuma, Arizona, has taken a strange turn as criminal activity from smuggling rings has reached new heights. Desperate times have led some smugglers, known as ‘coyotes,’ to adopt alarming new strategies, including dressing up as Border Patrol agents to fool both migrants and law enforcement. This change in tactics marks just one of the many ways criminal organizations are trying to outsmart authorities in th…