Cartels use TikTok, social media to recruit American teens to smuggle migrants for cash

[aztek]

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Cartels at the southern border are targeting American teenagers on social media to get them to do their dirty work of smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S. — the latest sign of the escalating chaos at the border.

Images obtained by Fox News shows the ads cartels are using on social media apps like TikTok, where they offer more than $3,000 a ride for teens and young adults to come drive smuggled migrants into the U.S. when they reach the border.

If they take it, their job is to get migrants through checkpoints and then to a drop-off location like a store parking lot, where the migrants are then picked up by someone trusted by the cartel and transferred to stash houses scattered along the border.

There were 172,000 migrant encounters in March alone, but authorities have estimated there are more than 1,000 "gotaways" – people who got into the U.S. by sneaking past Border Patrol – every single day.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-cartels-teens-migrants-ads-on-social-media

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Sources told Fox News the recruited kids often use their parents’ SUVs to make these trips to ferry migrants, without them knowing. One teenager’s mother, a nurse, started crying when she got a call from authorities about the business her daughter was conducting. But with authorities so overwhelmed, teens are often getting little more than a slap on the wrist.

 

[spartan max2]

I see the Cartel stays hip with the times

[Gromdor]

Remember when the Marines were doing it? 2 US Marines arrested for smuggling illegal aliens into US from Mexico | American Military News

But I gotta admit, $3000 a trip for teens to grab mom's car and smuggle in some immigrants does sound like easy money. Sure beats being a Uber.

[aztek]

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CHIP ROY: Cartels have operational control of our border. Period. Anybody who’s following it knows that. Tamaulipas, the state right across the border from Texas is run by the dangerous cartels, the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel del Noreste of Los Zetas. They are using human beings as shields for profit. They’re moving people into Texas, into our communities, into San Antonio, which I represent. We’ve stopped vehicles with human beings that are being sent to stash houses in Houston to be used for profit and human trafficking and sex trafficking.

This is happening in the most powerful nation in the world. We're allowing this to occur and Democrats refuse to do anything about it. Kamala Harris has been on the job for a month. Literally. She has done nothing. She's not gone to the border. She's done nothing to address this.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chip-roy-cartels-operation-control-border-kamala-harris

Edited April 21, 2021 by aztek

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8 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

I see the Cartel stays hip with the times

So was ISIS