American teens are smuggling migrants illegally into the United States at alarming rates. And law enforcement officials told Newsweek that money is the No. 1 reason that juveniles are entering into transnational crime.

Human smuggling is defined by the federal government as the illegal importation of people into the county by evading federal immigration laws, as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of noncitizens already illegally in the country.

Officials in the San Diego area are urging Congress to pass stricter U.S. border laws amid an increase in migrants arriving on the shores of California’s beaches by boat.

In the most recent incident, a speedboat navigated between surfers and beachgoers before it was abandoned in the suburb of Carlsbad, just north of San Diego.

The rust-colored barrier soars into the cloudless blue sky, a solid and almost impassable marker of the border between Mexico and the United States. But then it stops, when the rough, hilly terrain becomes a mountain, or a large boulder blocks the way.

These are the spots well known by human smugglers, who bring migrants in vans, show them the gaps, tell them to head north and to call 911 if they can’t find US Border Patrol officers to hand themselves in.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday announced an investigation into massive bungling by the Homeland Security Department, which failed to file summonses with the immigration courts for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, causing some 200,000 cases to be dismissed.

The department has managed to refile the charges in only one-quarter of the cases, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, leaving the rest free to roam the U.S. without any case against them.

Four migrants have been arrested and charged with trying to cut through concertina wire installed along the Texas-Mexico border.

The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the arrests in a post on X, which included video of the alleged act that took place Friday near Gate 36 in El Paso.

“Destroying state property is a crime — those responsible will be arrested & charged,” the department said.

The arrest comes after migrants tore down other razor fencing and rushed National Guard troops last month. More than 200 people have been arrested.

Most Americans in a new survey said they support the Biden administration hiring more border patrol agents and immigration judges as migrant surges persist at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Associated Press-NORC Center survey, released Friday, found that the majority of the public agrees with policy ideas related to immigration and security at the southern border, as legislation regarding the issue is currently stalled in the divided Congress.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned on Sunday during an interview with "60 Minutes" that unless the United States complies with Latin America’s requests for aid, the tide of migrants will continue.

In January, Obrador issued a series of demands for what the U.S. must do to stop the flow of migrants to the border, ranging from sending Latin American countries $20 billion in aid a year to granting some level of amnesty to illegal immigrant workers in the U.S.

The White House sought to shift the blame to Republicans on Friday when pressed on an incident at the U.S.–Mexico border one day earlier in which more than 100 migrants attempted to enter the country at once, including several men who attacked U.S. National Guard members amid the chaos.

Video of the incident published by the New York Post shows dozens of men breaking through razor-wire fencing that the state of Texas had installed before racing forward to overwhelm Texas National Guard members. However, the group was ultimately thwarted by a section of border wall.

For anyone following the fate of Texas' controversial immigration measure SB4, Tuesday was a day of legal whiplash. After Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the law in December, the federal government sued him. As a result, the law was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in February until yesterday, when the Supreme Court ruled that it could take effect. Then last night, an appeals court blocked the law, putting it on hold for a second time. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will decide on the law's merits in April.