IN-DEPTH: Cartels Stand to Win Big When Title 42 Ends, Immigration Experts Say

A Border Patrol agent checks an illegal immigrant who is wearing two wristbands that Mexican cartels have been using to control human smuggling into the United States, near Penitas, Texas, on March 15. 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Immigration experts say the impending end of Title 42 immigration enforcement will serve to benefit cartel drug and child trafficking operations at the expense of Americans.

Lora Ries, a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), told The Epoch Times that the coming influx of illegal immigrants will strip critical tools from Border Patrol and facilitate more cartel activity along the border.