Unfortunately, girls are being forced, often, into
drug trafficking or human trafficking, and they are going to be used as
prostitutes to make money for the drug cartels. They send them across. As a border patrolman said, they send them across, and then DHS here
in America becomes their logistics. We ship them wherever they want
them to go in the United States. All they have to do oftentimes is just
have--I have seen them--a Xerox copy of the address where they are
supposed to go, and DHS puts them on the bus--sometimes flies them, but
usually buses--and ships them off to a city where the drug cartels want
them to set up shop. I have been there in the middle of the night when border patrolmen
will ask how much they paid to be brought in illegally to the U.S. Some
of the Spanish speakers in our Border Patrol are really incredible as
they drill down and get answers to their questions that are not always
on the list that DHS tells them to get.
``How much money did you pay?'' They would say, ``Well, you didn't
have $6,000, $7,000, $8,000. Where did you get that money?''
``Well, I was able to get $1,000 from somebody in the U.S., $1,000
from somebody in Mexico or Guatemala.''
``Well, what about the rest?''
``They are going to let me pay that out after I am in the United
States.''
It becomes clear very quickly that, once again, this business model
that the drug cartels have includes getting people in rafts where the
Rio Grande River requires a raft, or just getting them across in
unguarded areas, or areas where we need a wall and don't have one,
getting them across, and then getting DHS to send them to the city
where they want to set up shop as drug traffickers, human traffickers. What a business model.
Identified stereotypes
Undocumented immigrants are portrayed as being used by drug cartels for criminal activities.
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