Mexican Drug Cartels Use Children as Decoys to Smuggle Criminals Into US, Texas Sheriff Says

Mexican Drug Cartels Use Children as Decoys to Smuggle Criminals Into US, Texas Sheriff Says
A Border Patrol agent delivers a family unit who illegally entered the United States to a bus station in Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 26, 2021. John Moore/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Mexican drug cartels are taking advantage of the Biden administration’s border policies to use children as decoys to smuggle their members into the United States, according to a sheriff from Texas.

Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. Guerra, who is on the front line of the ongoing surge in illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border, told The New York Post that cartels are profiting more from trafficking humans than running drugs.