Mexican Cartels Recruiting Women for Smuggling Jobs

Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants are transferred by agents of the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico to El Paso, TX, on Dec. 27, 2022, to ask for political asylum. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

Mexican cartels are recruiting women to help smuggle humans and drugs across the Texas border because women often get away without jail time.

Over the last two years, at least 140 females have gotten away “scot-free” after being caught smuggling, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe said on Tuesday in an interview on NewsNation. According to Coe, at least 15 to 20 percent of the smugglers caught are women.