Brazen migrant smugglers offer services through TikTok, with videos promoting $13B industry

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Today's cover: Brazen migrant smugglers offer services through TikTok, with videos promoting $13B industry

They’re the Kardashians of the coyote world.

Anyone can open their phone and with a few clicks talk to a coyote via their social media account and receive a quote for slipping an immigrant illegally into the US, The Post has found. A young boy was among those entrusted to the care of dangerous smugglers. The child can be seen giving a thumbs-up in a smuggling marketing video.His footage also follows migrants on a raft crossing the Rio Grande, the river that separates Texas from Mexico and serves as the international boundary.

“The simple reason is to share life and everything that we Latinos and Americans have in the USA, so my dear friends, I hope it is to your liking,” he writes.

 

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