Investigative journalist Ben Bergquam of Real America’s Voice and Frontline America has been documenting the chaos on the U.S. border with Mexico, especially along Arizona’s border. On Tuesday, he stopped by the border in Lukeville, where the Border Patrol told him there are large numbers of Syrians and Pakistanis illegally coming over the border.
“That’s what we’re doing right now,” Bergquam said in a video taken at the border showing migrants in tents. “Again. Day after day after day. You saw the footage I just put out two days ago. This is today. And it’ll be like this tomorrow and the next day and the next day. And this is one point on our border and it’s like this across our entire border.”
He pointed at tents housing “fighting age men” and others. The journalist explained how the Border Patrol is tied up handling them, including driving their luggage around, so they aren’t available to patrol the border. Another video he took on Tuesday showed a long line of “all single, fighting age men” by the tents.
Bergquam told The Arizona Sun Times that “we already know people from Yemen are coming across the border,” who he warned are Islamic fundamentalists.
Bergquam said he believes there are organizations and politicians in the U.S. who are profiting from the trafficking, “representatives in our own government who are compromised by the cartels.”
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