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Migration spotlights Mexican 'coyote' smugglers
Times Union.Com ^ | 21 Jul 2014 | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

Posted on 07/21/2014 11:00:43 AM PDT by mandaladon

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (AP) — The man-in-the-know nursed a late-morning beer at a bar near the Suchiate River that separates Guatemala from Mexico, and answered a question about his human smuggling business with a question: "Do you think a coyote is going to say he's a coyote?"

Dressed as a migrant in shorts and sandals but speaking like an entrepreneur, he then described shipments of tens of thousands of dollars in human cargo from the slums of Honduras and highlands of Guatemala to cities across the United States.

"It's business," he said, agreeing to speak to a reporter only if guaranteed anonymity. "Sometimes, business is very good."

Judging by the dramatic increase in the number of minors apprehended in the United States in recent months, it seems the human smuggling business from Central America is booming. The vast majority of migrants who enter the U.S. illegally do so with the help of a network of smugglers known as "coyotes," so named for the scavengers that prowl the border.

It is a high-risk, often high-yield business estimated to generate $6.6 billion a year for smugglers along Latin America's routes to the U.S., according to a 2010 United Nations report. The migrants pay anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 each for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks that in turn pay off government officials, gangs operating on trains and drug cartels controlling the routes north.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalimmigrants; obama
Thank Obama for this tragedy.
1 posted on 07/21/2014 11:00:43 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon; All

Where are the FOX News Network’s “Fair and Balanced,” on-the-ground, Live and in Color, News Reports on the horrific, violent events in the Central American Countries that the hordes of Illegal Obama Wetback “Children” are escaping from with only the ‘clothes on their backs?’

Certainly, ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, the human trafficking of “children” across international borders would have been an irresistible magnet for journalists to reveal the facts of such horrific abuse of children especially to the most pity-filled Liberals.

Did I miss this famous “Fair and Balanced” reporting on Gretchen’s “Real Story,” Shep, Neal, “The Five,” Bret, Greta, Billy O’, Pretty-Face Kelly, or Hannity?

Where is the “We Report, you decide” documentation by FOX News Network?

Surely there was an hour-long “Special on the Famous 2014 Central American War on Children” that I somehow missed?

The pity-filled Liberals would have cried all hour as the FOX Journalist interviewed victimized family after victimized family - - - a sure way to boost ratings, among pity-filled Liberals.

Why is FOX’s CEO Roger Ailes helping Obama hide this horrific REALITY side of the story?”

It is one thing for the Democrat’s Left Stream Media to swallow the con-artist words of Jarrett, Holden, Reid and Obama, but quite another for FOX News Network not even trying to be “Fair” OR “Balanced!


2 posted on 07/21/2014 11:02:04 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: mandaladon

Yep, Obama is the CINC. AKA Coyote In Chief.


3 posted on 07/21/2014 11:13:07 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Graewoulf

FOX is a liberal network that supports Obama and Romney.
And they both support Mexico.
Romney is Mexican.
Obama is Indonesian.


4 posted on 07/21/2014 11:22:35 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: mandaladon

Death penalty for Coyotes!


5 posted on 07/21/2014 11:27:54 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: mandaladon
[The migrants pay anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 each for the illegal journey. . .]

Where do the denizens of “the slums of Honduras and highlands of Guatemala” get $5,000 to $10,000. If they had $5,000 or $10,000 they wouldn't need to flee. Some of the illegals in this latest influx speak rural indigenous dialects and are Spanish illiterate.

I'm just speculating but this underground railroad may be getting its funding from a conglomerate of pro-amnesty forces like George Soros, the DNC, La Raza, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, etc.

6 posted on 07/21/2014 11:30:09 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; mandaladon

Where do the denizens of “the slums of Honduras and highlands of Guatemala” get $5,000 to $10,000...

Russian Mafia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZnkSXosZhic


7 posted on 07/21/2014 11:35:54 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: mandaladon
It is a high-risk, often high-yield business estimated to generate $6.6 billion a year for smugglers along Latin America's routes to the U.S., according to a 2010 United Nations report. The migrants pay anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 each for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks ...

What's the kickback share for corrupt democrats?

8 posted on 07/21/2014 11:42:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: SandRat; Old Sarge
It is a high-risk, often high-yield business estimated to generate $6.6 billion a year for smugglers along Latin America's routes to the U.S., according to a 2010 United Nations report. The migrants pay anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 each for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks ...

What's the kickback share for corrupt democrats?

9 posted on 07/21/2014 11:42:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Obama is the Coyote-in-Chief!


10 posted on 07/21/2014 11:42:55 AM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: mandaladon
Many of the children and teenagers who travelled to the United States recently said they did so after hearing they would be allowed to stay...............I wonder where that information came from?
11 posted on 07/21/2014 11:45:08 AM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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IMPEACH The Coyote in Chief

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