Human traffickers on the U.S.-Mexico border are making up to $60,000 per migrant they sneak across the border, and smugglers in one sector are making up to $1.5 billion a year, according to a recently released report.'Our Sector Intelligence Unit estimates that the weekly revenue for the illicit human smuggling in our sector alone, the Del Rio Sector alone, is in excess of $30 million a week,' U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens, told members of the House Oversight Committee.If the department's estimations are correct, human smugglers sneaking migrants into the Del Rio Sector alone would make $1.56 billion in revenue annually.
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