Putting the drugs in the backpacks of kids crossing the border? Are you for real? Drug cartels aren't giving random migrants bags of drugs to carry over here, because they don't have any control over the delivery. Cartels like to use hired drug mules, because not only do they feel that paying the person to bring the drugs here in a vehicle is less risky than trusting unknown migrants, but also, the cartels know who the family members of the mule are, so that if a shipment comes up missing, they know who to go after. You gotta quit buying into the bullshit the politicians are scaring you with. No way in hell is a cartel member gonna trust a 15,000 dollar kilo of coke to a kid to bring over.
It is hilarious how much you libs know that just is not true.
Mexico drug gangs using more children as "mules" - CBS News
Luis Alberto is only 14 but has the wizened gaze of a grown-up hardened by life. He never met his father, worked as a child, was hired by a gang to sell drugs and then got addicted to them.
In October he checked into Cirad, a rehab center west of this border city that handles about 500 drug addicts at a time, a fifth of them younger than 17.
"They brought me here because I was using and selling 'criloco,"' Luis Alberto said, referring to methamphetamine, the drug of choice for 90 percent of adolescents in detox because of its low cost and easy availability.
Luis Alberto is just one of an increasing number of young people being used as "mules" to ferry drugs across the border into the U.S. or sell them in nearby Mexican towns, said Victor Clark, an anthropologist who studies drug trafficking.
"Minors are cheap labor and expendable for organized crime in an area where there are few job opportunities or places for recreation, and where the distribution and consumption of drugs have grown fast," Clark said.
Mexican authorities say they are aware of the problem, but there are no official figures on the number of adolescents detained for selling or distributing drugs because the law forbids keeping criminal records for minors.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that between 2008 and 2011, the number of youths aged 14 to 18 caught trying to cross the border between Tijuana and San Diego to sell drugs has grown tenfold. Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for ICE in San Diego, said 19 minors were arrested in 2008, 165 in 2009, 190 in 2010 and 190 again last year.
Most of them were high school students who carried drugs, usually methamphetamine or cocaine, hidden in their bodies or in their cars, Mack said.
And you were saying what? Oh, yeah, that the cartels dont use random kids, but then again, I never said random kids, dude.
roflmao