Life has gotten so bad for 'coyotes' who smuggle migrants across the Mexican border that some are dressing as Border Patrol agents in a bid to fool the men and women who really do that job.
Agents in Yuma, Arizona, nabbed three men – two Americans and a Mexican – just days before Donald Trump's inauguration as they tried to impersonate Border Patrol to smuggle 24 migrants – mostly Mexican into the country.
The desperate measure came as Yuma, a hotbed for illegal crossings at the height of the nation's crisis, has become a ghost town as stricter policies and enforcement brought by the new Trump administration go into effect.
'It's been really quiet,' one local Border Patrol agent speaking on condition of anonymity told DailyMail.com. 'In 2021 and 2022, yeah, it was busy then.
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