Moment migrant smugglers set up ladders at United States-Mexico steel border wall after shimmying up 30-foot barrier
This is the shocking moment smugglers set up a ladder system on a 30-foot barrier along the Mexican side of the United States-Mexico border wall.
The video footage surfaced on social media on Tuesday and showed five men locating two ladders on a section of the international border as cars zipped by in broad daylight.
One of the men could be seen scaling the steel structure with the ladder’s hood clinging from his pants.
Another subsequently follows him up the barrier before they hook both ladders to the edge of the wall.
Three would-be border crossers were recently recorded scaling to the top of a 30-foot steel border wall at the United States-Mexico borderline in an attempt to illegally enter the U.S.
A smuggler climbs a steel pillar to get to the top of the border wall and set up one of the two ladders migrants would then use to cross illegally from Mexico to the United States
Both men would later slide down the steel pillars before a pickup truck passed several yards behind the United States side of the wall.
The smugglers were then joined by three male individuals on working to reinforce the rope ladders by tying them to the pillars.
Less than a minute later, the three individuals started to climb up the later in an apparent attempt to illegally enter the United States.
A United States border agency official told DailyMail.com that they were unable to tell where the border crossing would have taken place.
Two alleged smugglers connect a ladder system to the top of a section of the United States-Mexico border wall on the Mexican side of the international borderline while three men remained on the ground before they eventually climbed to the top
Alleged smugglers and migrants were caught on video reinforcing two ladders that were hooked to the top of a section of the United States-Mexico border wall on the Mexican side
‘It’s an example of how they always put migrant lives at danger became it is not a safe way to cross border,’ the official said.
Latest border figure released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed that U.S. Border Patrol agents registered 140,644 of the 189,922 encounters with people who unlawfully crossed the 1,954-mile long southwestern border in February.
In all, the agency has reported 1,151,448 interdictions since October 2023, the start of fiscal year 2024.
Border Patrol agents conducted 434 rescues at the southern border in February, the most since October.
