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NJ-BASED GANG OF MIGRANTS CHARGING $6K A HEAD TO SMUGGLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO
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A New Jersey-based migrant gang is smuggling hordes of illegal immigrants into
the US across the Canadian border for a price of $6,000 a head, a new report
reveals.
The human smuggling gang took root after its founders were briefly detained and
cut loose by federal immigration authorities.
The ringleaders, migrants from Guatemala and Colombia, snuck across the Mexican
border and set up shop in the Garden State, running the lucrative scheme while
dodging the feds, according to a report by the Daily Mail.
While US Border Patrol agents grapple with an overwhelming flow of asylum
seekers from Mexico, the Jersey-based gang has helped spark an under-the-radar
surge in crossings along the northern border, the outlet said.
“With the huge asylum-seeker concentrations and with all of those people
crossing the border and with the huge increase in the amount of enforcement that
is going on on the southern border, it is probably, if you have an option, a lot
easier to try to get in without inspection across the Canadian border,” said
Philip Kasinitz, a professor of immigration studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The migrant smugglers are capitalizing on it — charging a hefty bounty to sneak
immigrants from Quebec and into Vermont, where scrutiny is much less intense,
the Mail said.
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Simon Jacinto-Ramos, an alleged ringleader of a migrant smuggling gang based in
New Jersey, is still on the loose in Canada. Tin Ramos / Facebook
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Elmer Bran-Galvez was stopped driving four immigrants into Vermont in June, but
wasn’t charged, the Daily Mail said. El Pupa / Facebook
In June, Elmer Bran-Galvez, allegedly a driver for the smuggling ring, was
stopped by border agents in Franklin, Vermont transporting four illegal
immigrants, telling authorities he was paid around $1,800 for each illicit
passenger — but was not charged, according to the outlet.
Last year, more than 10,000 migrants were busted trying to get into the US from
Canada illegally, nearly five times the 2022 figure — an indication of the
massive rush across the northern border, the outlet said.
Two of the New Jersey gang’s ringleaders — Jhon Reina-Perez, 34, and Victor
Lopez-Padilla, 35 — were finally arrested by federal authorities, but it hasn’t
stopped the flow of migrants.
Reina-Perez, a Colombian national, crossed the US southern border in Texas in
April 2022 and was released pending “immigration proceedings” but failed to
check in with authorities and was busted again in October of that year — only to
be released again.
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Border Patrol agents nab migrants trying to sneak into the US across the
northern border in November. Rosario Pete Vasquez / X
Lopez-Padilla, who is from Guatemala, crossed into the US in Arizona in June
2019 and was also released pending future proceedings, leaving him and his
accomplices free to run the smuggling scam.
According to the Daily Mail, Lopez-Padilla may have ties to jailed
narcotrafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the alleged co-ringleader making
several references to the drug kingpin on his Facebook account.
Despite now finally being in custody, a third cohort, identified as Guatemalan
national Simon Jacinto-Ramos, remains on the loose and running the operation.
Because Mexico is on Canada’s list of “visa-exempt” countries, migrants can head
there for an easier route into the US — if they come up with the cash to pull it
off.
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Four migrants busted trying to sneak into the US illegally at Niagara Falls.
Chief Patrol Agent Thomas G. Martin / X
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“Presumably some of them are entering legally on tourist visas, business visas
and any kind of legal visa and then illegally crossing into the United States,”
Kasinitz said.
Nonetheless, the US border with Mexico remains the most troubling center of the
migrant crisis, with more than 2 million crossing illegally last year.
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