The Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) released video showing Mexican drug cartels transporting illegal aliens from Mexico to the U.S. The surveillance video shows heavily armed men illegally escorting The video shows several armed men in full tactical gear carrying firearms while escorting a woman and her 8-year-old child across the U.S. border into Arizona.

#BorderPatrol cameras observed armed men escorting a mother and her 8-year-old son to the int’l boundary west of Lukeville, AZ. The armed men dropped off the pair in an area commonly used by smugglers to bring large groups of Central Americans into the country illegally. pic.twitter.com/xwJZZgvlbD

— CBP (@CBP) April 23, 2019

CBP posted the surveillance video with the caption: Cameras observed armed men escorting a mother and her 8-year-old son to the int’l boundary west of Lukeville, AZ. The armed men dropped off the pair in an area commonly used by smugglers to bring large groups of Central Americans into the country illegally.

Since January, more than 164,000 migrants have been apprehended or turned themselves in and applied for asylum in the sector, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Agents in the sector made 162,262 apprehensions in all of the fiscal 2018 year.