News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Student smugglers helping illegals into U.S.

06:33 PM CST on Sunday, December 3, 2006
By Angela Kocherga / 11 News

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There’s a new twist to report in human trafficking. It’s about smugglers that you’d expect to find studying, but instead the high school students are helping illegals sneak into the U.S.

A crackdown on coyotes, or illegal immigrant smugglers, has traffickers looking for new strategies.

“The trend has been shifting to juveniles,” said Todd Garrison, Dona Ana County Sheriff.

The sheriff of this county that borders Mexico told us his deputies noticed about six months ago the smugglers were getting Younger.

“High school kids. Yeah, high school kids,” said the sheriff.

U.S. citizens, if caught, face lesser penalties and are rarely prosecuted. It’s an attractive combination for criminal smuggling organizations.

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