
Human smugglers using social media to transport migrants to US
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Human smugglers are using social media to advertise their services to transport migrants from Central America to the U.S., according to reports.
"When the migrant caravans started to arrive, myself and my team found out that a lot of the communication was done through WhatsApp. ... This is the way that people communicate normally," she told Fox News. WhatsApp is an encrypted messaging service popular in countries outside the U.S. because it offers a free messaging service that only requires WiFi or data to communicate with others. "Some of these WhatsApp accounts were created just weeks before the caravan formed, and then when the ... life of the caravan was over, the WhatsApp list that we were tracking was over," she said.More Related News