{"id":6417,"date":"2024-06-26T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2024-07-25T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:57:00","slug":"border-smugglers-use-social-media-to-brag-about-trafficking-migrants-to-us-this-is-criminal-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=6417","title":{"rendered":"Border smugglers use social media to brag about trafficking migrants to US: \u2018This is criminal,\u2019 expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social media is proving to be an essential tool for human smugglers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegally transporting migrants<\/a>&nbsp;across the southern border; and the cash-hungry traffickers aren\u2019t afraid to boast about their illegal operations, often flaunting their cash on apps and bragging about the ease at which they can evade authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, 22 people were indicted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Arizona<\/a>&nbsp;for recruiting truck drivers using Snapchat posts of cash glamorizing illegal migrant smuggling. Many of the posts claimed drivers can make hefty sums of money without the risk of being arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, an Arizona man was sentenced to 71 months in prison for transporting hundreds of illegal immigrants, and investigators found Snapchat posts in which he gloated about cramming people into overcrowded vehicles in unsafe conditions. He also used minors to facilitate certain smuggling operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6353518383112&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/border-smugglers-use-social-media-brag-about-trafficking-migrants-us-criminal-expert-says\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Border smugglers use social media to brag about trafficking migrants to US: \u2018This is criminal,\u2019 expert says\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Copy-of-defund-the-poSmuggling-collagelice-st.-louis.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Border smugglers use social media to brag about trafficking migrants to US: \u2018This is criminal,\u2019 expert says<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Human smugglers are using social media apps to boast about helping migrants cross into the U.S. and gloat about the ease with which they evade authorities<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is proving to be an essential tool for human smugglers&nbsp;illegally transporting migrants&nbsp;across the southern border; and the cash-hungry traffickers aren\u2019t afraid to boast about their illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-invasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}