WUI (Writing under the influence)

I don't understand something about this story.

SAN YSIDRO, Calif. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a U.S. man Tuesday morning after they say he tried to smuggle three migrants into the country hidden in the seats of his vehicle.

CBP officers said they encountered the driver, a 33-year-old resident of Rosarito, Mexico, as he entered the port at about 5 a.m. driving a GMC Vendura van.

According to authorities, the driver stated he was a citizen of the United States and presented a valid California identification and birth certificate to the officer.

The primary officer said the driver has a nervous demeanor. The officer referred the vehicle and occupant to a secondary lot for a more in-depth examination.

In the secondary lot, CBP officers discovered three undocumented migrants sewn into three seats of the conversion van, including the driver’s seat. CBP officers said they carefully extracted two men and a woman from inside the seats.

Officers determined that the two men and woman are citizens of Mexico. They are being detained as material witnesses in the prosecution case.

The driver was charged with alien smuggling and was transported to the Metropolitan Correctional Center to await arraignment. The vehicle was seized by CBP.

"This case illustrates the length to which smugglers will go to transport undocumented people into the United States," said Adele Fasano, director of field operations in San Diego. "This involved good basic police work by alert CBP officers who intercepted this case."

Somebody who didn't know any better would say that we don't need any wall on the border because our customs and border protection officers do their jobs so well there is no way any illegal alien can get through.

But I wonder why, when we need all these illegal immigrants to do jobs Americans will not do, should we go through all these efforts to stop them from crossing.

Why would U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers go to such lengths as to extract illegal aliens from car seats while, at the same time, we completely disregard the fact that there are plenty of illegal immigrants who are easily recognizable all around us?

Are they doing this just to fool us?