IN-DEPTH: Cartels Stand to Win Big When Title 42 Ends, Immigration Experts Say

Immigration experts say the impending end of Title 42 immigration enforcement will serve to benefit cartel drug and child trafficking operations at the expense of Americans.
Lora Ries, a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), told The Epoch Times that the coming influx of illegal immigrants will strip critical tools from Border Patrol and facilitate more cartel activity along the border.
“Ending Title 42 is helping the cartels because it’s taking a tool away from border agents,” said Ries, who has more than two decades of experience in immigration and homeland security.
Because no major policy changes seem forthcoming from President Joe Biden’s administration, “there will be more people coming and the cartels will get even richer,” she said….}