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| Border cartels use TikTok, social media to recruit American teens to smuggle migrants for cash |
| 2021-04-22 |
| [FoxNews] 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. "Need 2 or 3 drivers to go through a checkpoint," one says. "Got another 6 left, already crossed. Lemme know ASAP for that easy cash," another says. 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. Sources previously told Fox News that smugglers would often dump children in one part of the border, so adult migrants can sneak past as Border Patrol is overwhelmed with dealing with the children. Often they will get through unfinished gaps in the border wall. 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. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 Stupid teenagers. Should've banned TikTok and Instagram reels. Musically was better than TikTok cuz it was fun unlike the latter which is so toxic. |
| Posted by: Wren 2021-04-22 03:34 |