US Border Official: Smugglers’ Message Spreading Wider Than Biden Administration’s

Migrant children and teenagers are processed after entering the site of a temporary holding facility south of Midland, Texas on March 14, 2021. Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP

Messaging from human smugglers that the U.S.-Mexico border is open is spreading wider than claims from President Joe Biden’s administration that the border is not open, a top administration official said Tuesday.

“The smugglers are agile and quick and word of mouth gets through, and they are exploiting people’s hope and desperation,” Roberta Jacobson said during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.”