What crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives
Maria Verza and Christopher Sherman, Associated Press Updated 1:17 pm CST, Thursday, December 19, 2019
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — The heavy-set man swept through a nightclub curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub. In the darkness he agreed to talk about his business: handling the income from smuggling migrants across a 375-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We control all the territory†along the frontier with Arizona, said the cartel money man, who asked to be identified only as Manuel.
His organization, though he didn’t explicitly name it: the Sinaloa cartel.
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