Recently, US Customs and Border Protection officials announced that smugglers have been using counterfeit FedEx vehicles in an attempt to bring 26 illegal migrants into El Paso, Texas. The Border Patrol's Santa Teresa Station Anti-Smuggling Unit received a tip about the plan. The agents and state troopers stopped two vehicles that were fitted-out to look difficult to distinguish from standard white FedEx vans. After the arrests of four smugglers involved in the scheme, 26 migrants, from Mexico and Guatemala, were apprehended.

The FedEx facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, which is near the border, is well-known as a pick-up location for smugglers and migrants, according to Border Patrol insiders who spoke to The Post. Smugglers had decoratively covered one of the 'FedEx' vans to look like the genuine article before using it to move illegals across the border.

Coffey, the El Paso Border Patrol, has spoken out against the danger posed to the migrants by the smuggling scheme. She highlighted recent incidents in which people have died as a result of being transported in poorly equipped, unventilated trucks while trying to cross the border. She added that the resurgence of the FedEx technique is probably due to smugglers feeling more confident since the end of Title 42.

Recently, US Customs and Border Protection officials announced that smugglers have been using counterfeit FedEx vehicles in an attempt to bring 26 illegal migrants into El Paso, Texas. The Border Patrol's Santa Teresa Station Anti-Smuggling Unit received a tip about the plan. The agents and state troopers stopped two vehicles that were fitted-out to look difficult to distinguish from standard white FedEx vans. After the arrests of four smugglers involved in the scheme, 26 migrants, from Mexico and Guatemala, were apprehended.
The FedEx facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, which is near the border, is well-known as a pick-up location for smugglers and migrants, according to Border Patrol insiders who spoke to The Post. Smugglers had decoratively covered one of the 'FedEx' vans to look like the genuine article before using it to move illegals across the border.
Coffey, the El Paso Border Patrol, has spoken out against the danger posed to the migrants by the smuggling scheme. She highlighted recent incidents in which people have died as a result of being transported in poorly equipped, unventilated trucks while trying to cross the border. She added that the resurgence of the FedEx technique is probably due to smugglers feeling more confident since the end of Title 42.

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