The U.S. is currently struggling with an immigration issue, but thanks to Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) agents, the agency now knows one unusual tactic being used to transport migrants past U.S. border patrol checkpoints.
Early in June, a binational human smuggling network was caught transporting migrants who crossed the U.S-Mexico border using fake FedEx vans.
Fake van, fake “cargo”
On June 9, agents from the Texas DPS followed what they thought was a regular FedEx van. The agents spotted the vehicle near the border in El Paso, Texas.
But after the agents stopped to search the vehicle, they discovered 12 migrants hiding inside the fake cargo van.
On the same day at a different location, officers discovered another vehicle designed to look like a fake FedEx van. According to a press release by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the second van was carrying another group of 14 migrants.
The CBP press release also revealed that most of the migrants caught in the two fake FedEx vans were from Guatemala and Mexico.
The authorities reported that four men were arrested on human smuggling charges. The group included two U.S. citizens and two Mexican nationals.
The fake vans were painted white with FedEx logos all over them to make them look like real delivery trucks. The drivers were also wearing FedEx’s black and purple uniforms, said the authorities.
The investigation revealed that the vans were not used to cross the border, but to transport the migrants who were already on U.S. soil past Border Patrol checkpoints to escape being searched.
Days before the two vans were spotted, agents received an anonymous tip about the human smuggling operation. The information came from a source close to the investigation who asked to remain anonymous.
The anonymous source said the human smugglers were using FedEx as a disguise because the company has a location close to the actual U.S.-Mexico border.
The smugglers assumed that agents wouldn’t be suspicious because real FedEx vans often drive near the area.
Authorities are still trying to find out if the vans were prepared on the U.S. side of the border or in Mexico. Agents are also investigating to see if there are more fake FedEx vehicles being used as part of the migrant smuggling scheme. (Related: DeSantis: Florida National Guard “proud to help” Texas counterparts in addressing Biden-inflicted BORDER CRISIS.)
This isn’t the first time that human smugglers have used unusual methods to transport migrants across the U.S-Mexico border and around the United States.
Back in 2022, a massive human smuggling ring operated by active U.S. Marines was discovered by federal authorities.
Smuggling schemes endanger the lives of migrants
According to Sean Coffey, a Border Patrol agent, the fake FedEx van tactic isn’t new, but it hasn’t been used in recent years.
In an interview, Coffey explained that while agents “haven’t seen a FedEx vehicle in some time,” they see other types of vehicles used, like construction vehicles.
He added that smugglers would often put stickers on the car that they are using to make it look like a company vehicle.
Coffey also warned that the fake FedEx van smuggling scheme endangers the lives of the migrants, citing recent tragedies where dozens of people have died in the back of poorly ventilated trucks trying to sneak people across the border.
“The insides of some of these vehicles can become extremely hot, especially with the large amount of people [they] are trying to put inside of them,” explained Coffey.
He added that the renewed FedEx tactic could be the result of smugglers feeling more brazen as they try to give migrants a solution to entering the U.S. after the end of Title 42.
Unfortunately, data suggests that smugglers are succeeding. Back in May, U.S. Border Patrol reported that a staggering 530,000 “gotaways,” or illegal immigrants who haven’t been caught, have entered the country since last October.
On June 12, Raoul Ortiz, border chief, said an estimated 2,493 gotaways had made their way into the U.S. in the past three days.
The number of people attempting to enter America illegally has skyrocketed since May 11, when the administration made it harder for migrants to be officially admitted to the country following the end of the pandemic-era Title 42 measure.
According to internal Border Patrol data, at least 853 migrants have died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in the past 12 months. This makes the fiscal year 2022 the most dangerous year for migrants recorded by the U.S. government.
Migration policy analysts say that the figure, which is greater than the 546 migrant deaths recorded by Border Patrol in fiscal year 2021, could be an undercount due to data collection limits.
An April report by a federal watchdog revealed that Border Patrol did not collect and record “complete data on migrant deaths.”
Visit BorderSecurity.news for more articles about the ongoing immigration crisis in the United States. Watch the video below to know more about ongoing activity at the Southern border.
This video is from The Mel K Show channel on Brighteon.com.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.