Parents beware, drug cartels are using social media to lure your teen into smuggling migrants

Drug cartels are now using SnapChat, Instagram, and other social media apps to recruit American teenagers from around the country to transport migrants and drugs from the border.

Soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard keep an eye out for signs of illegal activity along the U.S./Mexico border in the Sasabe District of Arizona Jan. 19. (Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde) ( ) YUMA, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 21: Asylum seekers from Colombia, Venzuela, and Cuba wait next to the USA border wall with Mexico, to be processed by CBP on February 21, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona, United States. (Photo by Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) ( ) Border Patrol vehicles are stationed at a popular crossing point for migrants from Central America on April 29, 2021 near Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) SASABE, ARIZONA - JANUARY 23: Migrants wait on the Mexican side for the U.S. Border Patrol agents to leave the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico to cross to an area where the wall is not complete near the city of Sasabe, Arizona, Sunday, January 23, 2022.  ((Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)) Cochise County officials have urgently reached out to social media companies, the traditional media, and government officials to highlight the escalating crisis and seek assistance. Yet sadly and shockingly, Cochise County has received little support in its attempts to preserve public safety. 

High-speed pursuits between these teenagers and local law enforcement have become daily events, and this grave public safety threat is not receiving the attention it deserves.