U.S. teens recruited to drive migrants from Mexican border

[Judi Lynn]

April 11, 2022
11:22 AM CDT
Last Updated 4 hours ago

By Andrew Hay, Nathan Frandino and Adria Malcolm

5 minute read

SUNLAND PARK, N.M., April 11 (Reuters) - Seventeen-year-old Santi sits in his car outside shops in Sunland Park, New Mexico, watching a pulsing blue dot on his mobile telephone.

Human smugglers have hired him to pick up migrants here, less than a mile from the Mexican border, and take them to nearby El Paso, Texas.

His shiny red mobile phone pings every 15 seconds. He and the migrants share locations, as a contact on the U.S. side messages instructions.

The high schooler with a high-fade haircut is among a growing number of U.S. teenagers in communities from Texas to California recruited to transport migrants crossing the Southwest border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

More:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-teens-recruited-drive-migrants-mexican-border-2022-04-11/?rpc=401&

[Journeyman]

1. Coupled with the young Marines running smuggling rings as well . . .

and it seems the Coyotes have unearthed a fertile field of assistance: young people in need of money.

Doesn't seem like there'll be a shortage of those in the future. There's a supply of those as deep and wide as there are people trying to get into the States.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn5z3/camp-pendleton-marines-migrant-human-smuggling

[Marcuse]

2. I got the wrong idea of the OP. I was thinking of skinhead Hitlerjugend attacking migrants.