“Move along, nothing to see.”

That’s the line America is still getting from the Biden administration about the border. In fact, they’ve moved the goalposts by switching the way they count illegal immigrants flowing over the southern border. Biden has moved numbers to make it appear, on paper, that illegal crossings are down. Way down. They just moved numbers from one column to a new column.

The Heritage Foundation noted this.

Encounters with the Border Patrol have averaged 3,400 per day since May 11. Another 1,070 inadmissible aliens presented themselves at a POE each day, using Secretary Mayorkas’ erroneously named “lawful pathway,” and the CBP has expanded daily appointments to 1,250. That is 37,500 inadmissible aliens each month. This number does not include an additional 23,000 supposedly vetted and sponsored Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals who entered in May through a special parole “pathway” that started in January. These two mass-parole port programs add up to 60,500 inadmissible aliens per month. If this number were shifted back to the Border Patrol encounter data on the southwest land border, encounters would be back at, or above, the record 200,000 a month.

America is still being flooded with illegal immigrants. Although the Biden Administration has attempted to frame the illegal crossings comprised mostly of women and children seeking refuge from economic and political oppression one cannot ignore the constant visuals that a great deal of those border crossings are men of “fighting age.” Perhaps the majority of those men are not “clear and present dangers” but it is myopic to suggest that some or a lot are not dangerous and deadly.

We already know that cartels have made illegal border crossings a billion-dollar business by having those crossing the border wearing wristbands like they are entering a Taylor Swift concert. Fentanyl, meanwhile, is a cash cow for the drug cartels and killing Americans. It’s killing more Americans than gun violence, by far. Cartels noticed when Joe Biden opened the figurative door and turned a blind eye to drug trafficking and human trafficking. It was just a matter of time before cartels would send armed men across the border to protect high-profile crossers.

This is where the fiction offered in thriller books written by authors like Jack Carr, Brad Thor, et al is suddenly no longer fiction. Cartels are generally unwilling to risk exposing themselves to the spotlight. They collect their money for illegal crossings and if the crosser is caught it is of little concern. Cartels won’t send armed men wearing body armor to protect what they consider normal cargo.

So, why would cartels send heavily armed men across the border? It seems clear to me: They must be escorting high-value and/or import crossers. Someone or something or a combination of both, was worth getting into a firefight over.

In June, law enforcement arrested five men escorting illegals. Based on the photo these men were low-level coyotes and although they are clearly part of a cartel, it seems also clear that they are expendable fodder. Then in the same area of Fronton, Texas, Fox News reported that on August 5, 2023, men with what appear to be semiautomatic rifles and sporting body armor were spotted on surveillance video.

NEW: Per law enforcement source, a group of suspected cartel gunmen armed with rifles & body armor were seen on cameras crossing illegally into the Fronton, TX area in the RGV Saturday night. Elite Border Patrol BORTAC agents were called out & searched area, but found nobody. pic.twitter.com/9GuhQngPKj

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 8, 2023

The Border Patrol dispatched its tactical BORTAC team but the armed men had disappeared. Perhaps back into Mexico, or perhaps they are still guiding their cargo.

Although Biden, Harris, and DHS head, Mayorkas have tried to soft-sell the idea that the border is closed – it is not.

Whatever the cargo/ human package was on August 5, it is here in America now. Thanks, Joe.