Cartels Using Migrants as ‘Human Shields’ for Drug Smuggling: Ex-Border Patrol Chief

As historic numbers of illegal migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border continue to draw the attention of law enforcement and the nation as a whole, the drug cartels are taking advantage of that distraction, according to former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott.
In a March 28 interview with Steve Lance of NTD News, The Epoch Times’ sister outlet, Scott noted that the people crossing the border serve as the perfect “cover” for the cartels’ other operations.
“The cartel uses these people as human shields to shape the border to completely overwhelm all law enforcement in areas very systematically, so that they can bring in other threats—people that are willing to pay more money to not meet a border patrol agent, or the narcotics, the fentanyl that we see poured into our cities all across this country,” he said. “Those are the threats that the illegal immigration is a cover or a mask for.”…}