Migrant smugglers ‘becoming desperate,’ don body armor and shoot at border agents: officials

The recent uptick in drastic tactics by coyotes, or people-smugglers for hire, includes an Aug. 18 incident in which a border patrol agent tried to stop a group of migrants crossing into California…

and violent — heavily arming themselves, donning body armor and even firing at US border agents — to get their illegal customers from Mexico to California.

When fellow agents responded to the shots, they could see the muzzle flashes coming from the migrant group, with a second volley of gunfire aimed at the officers, authorities said. Armed individuals have been repeatedly spotted along the Otay Mountain Wilderness border fence in California.A group of migrants were dropped off by smugglers along the southern border last Wednesday.“Our agents are preventing smugglers from conducting their illicit business and this is their very dangerous response,” McGurk-Daniel said. “This callous display clearly shows that smugglers do not care about the safety of migrants or law enforcement.

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