Cartels are turning to children to bring their illegal goods to the U.S.
A public-affairs agent for the U.S. Border Patrol says that over the past two years, federal agents have witnessed more kid smugglers.
Records kept by Customs and Border Protection show 130 minors were caught attempting to bring drugs through entry ports from Sonora into Arizona during fiscal 2009, an 83 percent increase over the previous year.
Recently, customs officials working the San Luis port of entry near Yuma busted two American teenagers.
They arrested a 15-year-old girl who entered the state with 5 pounds of pot strapped around her stomach and a 16-year-old boy with 2 pounds of cannabis taped to his legs.
The drugs are worth $72,000 on the street.
samkat posted at 7:55 pm on Mon, Jul 5, 2010.
These kids are old enough to understand the seriousness of their acts. Set the example and give them stiff jail terms. The message will spread rapidly I would imagine. As is, the cartels and the kids know they will get a slight slap on the wrist and be on their way to repeat their transgressions again.
Masterrogue666 posted at 9:59 pm on Mon, Jul 5, 2010.
Shouldn't FEDERAL law come into play on this as well as state law? They left the country to come back into the country to be a drug runner. Where are these kids parents? Both should be held accountable to some degree....
RollerCam posted at 1:19 pm on Tue, Jul 6, 2010.
But all the open-borders scumbags said that Jan Brewer was wrong when she said that most illegals are smuggling drugs to get here.
She was right, once again.