April 11, 2022
12:22 PM EDT
Last Updated 2 hours ago
U.S. teens recruited to drive migrants from Mexican border
By Andrew Hay, Nathan Frandino and Adria Malcolm
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.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-teens-recruited-drive-migrants-mexican-border-2022-04-11/?rpc=401&
