Smugglers use Uber-registered drivers to move migrants to U.S. border

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-uber-idUSKCN0ZG24J

Human traffickers are finding increasingly creative ways of shuttling Central American migrants through Mexico to the U.S. border and that includes hiring Uber-registered drivers.

On June 10, five vehicles carrying 34 Central American migrants were apprehended while traveling together between the northern Mexican states of Zacatecas and Coahuila, said Segismundo Doguin, a Coahuila state official at the National Migration Institute (INM).

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Uber Mexico said in a statement that it bore no responsibility but was cooperating with authorities.

"The company does not own the cars registered on the platform, nor does it employ the drivers, who are independent contractors," Uber said.

There has been a sharp rise in the number of Central American children and families trying to reach the United States this year, a hot button issue in the U.S. presidential race. Republican candidate Donald Trump has vowed to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep them out.

They should just wait to see if Hilldawg wins. Cause if She gets in its JUST WALK ON IN! The U.S will have finally achieved its Socialist 3rd World Shit Hole Status that the ClintMiester has always wanted.

I do feel sympathy for those who are coming from a bad situation and that aren't criminals. We are indeed a nation of immigrants, but times have changed and rules change too. There are ways to get in legally and people need to follow those ways or not come at all. We just can't let everyone flood in, this is not Germany.

On average illegals take more out of the system than they put back in. On top of that 1 out of every 2 illegals doesn't pay things like income taxes, etc.

@OP

Thats pretty clever!

Better for the migrants over being shuttled in the back of trucks. 🙂

Surtur, I don't blame the immigrants, I blame those who hire them. You're telling me none of the impoverished masses of people in this country don't want to do the work immigrants are being exploited for? I don't buy that.

Here in my home town alone, there was five Dunkin' Donut chains, all owned by one guy. Every single one of them stocked with "undocumented" immigrants. Eventually, the guy was found out and lost his business, and some other people took them over and hired legally (And locally.)