Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden administration is working closely with Mexico to break up caravans of migrants that seek to cross the border into the U.S.
who were abandoned in the back of a tractor trailer, saying U.S. immigration officials have repeatedly warned against traveling to the southern border.
"They put their lives, their life savings, in the hands of these exploitative organizations, these criminal organizations that do not care for their lives and only seek to make a profit," he said. "These are very sophisticated transnational criminal organizations. They have evolved over the last 30 years," he said."In the 90s I prosecuted them and they were much more rudimentary. Now, they are very sophisticated, using technology and they're extraordinarily organized transnational criminal enterprises."
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