Authorities pored over cellphone data and social media accounts to sniff out 22 people whom they have charged with being Snapchat smugglers.
The Snapchat post must have seemed too good to be true: Up to $20,000 in quick cash, just for “a few hours of driving.”
Authorities pored over cellphone data and social media accounts to sniff out 22 people, including Mr. Moreno-Lopez, whom they have charged with being Snapchat smugglers. The U.S. attorney declined to say more about what led to the effort against social-media smugglers, but The Washington Times has tracked the issue for several years and found that while it’s a tool all along the border, Arizona seems a particular hotbed.
The way smuggling usually runs is someone recruits drivers and coordinates between them and the migrants. And they are increasingly relying on social-media platforms. Recruiting ads can reach deep into the country, with Border Patrol agents encountering drivers who said they were flown in from out of state specifically to make money by smuggling people.
Investigators said Mr. Moreno-Lopez is himself an illegal immigrant from Mexico, albeit one who applied for and won a deportation amnesty under the Obama-era DACA program.Mr. Moreno-Lopez had other strikes against him.
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