This is a United States news story, published by ABC News.
For more United States news, you can click here:
more United States newsFor more climate change news, you can click here:
more climate change newsFor more news from ABC News, you can click here:
more news from ABC NewsOtherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like climate change news, you might also like this article about
cartel. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest human smugglers news, cartel land news, climate change news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!
Human smugglingABC News
•57% Informative
The United States southwest border is in the midst of an unrelenting wave of migration.
Millions of people have arrived since 2021 , numbers higher than ever before.
Human smuggling is not new, but it has been transformed in the last few years into an industrial operation.
Expert: "This amount of people arriving to the border would not be possible without.. organized crime".
The U.S. government estimates that the human smuggling industry is earning billions of dollars annually .
The money doesn't all go into cartel pockets but large amounts do, especially in Mexico .
One migrant from Senegal said he spent his entire life's savings and went into debt to make the trip.
VR Score
60
Informative language
57
Neutral language
51
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
34
Offensive language
possibly offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
not detected
Time-value
short-lived
External references
no external sources
Source diversity
no sources
Affiliate links
no affiliate links