Smugglers Caught Using Fake Border Patrol Vehicle to Sneak Illegal Aliens Into US

Smugglers are attempting different methods to transport people across the border

A U.S. Border Patrol agent sits in a vehicle along a border wall near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) San Ysidro Port of Entry at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, Calif., on Feb. 19, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

A scheme by smugglers to use a fake U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicle to transfer illegal aliens across the southern U.S. border from Mexico was foiled by U.S. and Mexican immigration officials.

“El Centro agents stopped a cloned BP vehicle from entering the U.S. after observing a subject trying to breach the border fence w/ a cutting torch,” U.S. Border Patrol chief Jason Owens wrote in a July 26 tweet. “Mexican officials responded and arrested 17 subjects.”