Would there be so many border crossers if there wasn't a 'market' for them on the US side? [View all]
This recruitment/hiring of US teens (sometimes as young as 12) to pick up border crossers and deliver them to points north has been going on for a while now. The money offered makes the young people figure it's worth the risk. They are too often involved in high speed chases though US border cities here on the US side of the line. There have been many accidents, many serious injuries, and some deaths.
Some of the latest examples here. But this is a near-daily occurrence here in the borderlands.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/regional/the-border/3-arizona-teens-recently-arrested-separate-instances-human-smuggling/75-5684b107-8618-4684-9f79-8e4238621d57
It is WAY past time to stop this and it will take busting illegal EMPLOYERS who profit from cheap, easily exploited and abused undocumented workers.
It's not asylum seekers who are 'illegal'. It is the profit driven US business owners who are dangling carrots to desperate refugees and under aged US citizens who a dazzled by the promise of big paydays per load.
If illegal employers were more likely to be facing prison, THAT might just slow the flow.
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