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Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor’s recent on-the-ground report exposes something every American needs to see: cartels are using the vast storm drain network under El Paso to move people and evade detection. The video shows an underground maze where smugglers funnel migrants into the United States, a shocking image of how porous our southern border has become under the current administration. Americans deserve to know the human and national-security risks being ignored aboveground while criminals work below our feet.
El Paso’s drainage system isn’t a few isolated pipes — it’s a sprawling, interconnected system that traffickers and alien smuggling organizations have exploited for years, turning municipal infrastructure into a criminal transit hub. Local reporting and Border Patrol statements confirm repeated incidents of migrants emerging from manholes and becoming trapped in dangerous, toxic conditions under the city. This is not a one-off headline; it’s part of a pattern that endangers both migrants and residents and strains law enforcement resources.
Border Patrol has repeatedly been forced to perform confined-space rescues, hauling injured or lost migrants out of drains while smugglers vanish back into Mexico, leaving human beings to fend for themselves. Past Fox News coverage detailed agents finding people with broken ankles and worse, illustrating the brutality of the smugglers who treat humans as cargo. These rescues are testament to the courage of our agents and the moral failure of policies that allow this to continue.
Federal prosecutors and local courts have begun to catch and convict participants in tunnel and storm-drain smuggling operations, but sentences and enforcement so far feel like too little, too late. Recent court actions show that smugglers are using sophisticated methods — including tunnels that feed into drainage lines — to bypass ports of entry and law enforcement checkpoints. That proves beyond doubt that transnational criminal organizations are adapting to our weak border posture, not being deterred by it.
This underground crisis is further confirmation that cartels and smugglers exploit every gap left by federal neglect, a fact echoed in official Border Patrol and Department of Homeland Security materials documenting underground smuggling methods. The picture is grim: criminals running complex operations beneath American cities while Washington wrings its hands and delays decisive action. The American people should demand policies that prioritize secure borders, empowered agents, and the end of catch-and-release incentives that invite more dangerous schemes.
Patriots who love this country must insist on immediate, commonsense steps — shore up surveillance and intelligence at the border, give agents the tools and legal backing to dismantle smuggling networks, and work with local officials to seal vulnerable infrastructure. We owe it to the migrants being exploited, to the brave Border Patrol agents risking their lives in confined spaces, and to the millions of hard-working Americans who expect their leaders to protect the homeland. Enough talk; secure the border now so our children and communities are not left to inherit the consequences of a failed policy.
