- Smugglers will pay drivers between $200 per carload to $2,500 per person they help smuggle into the interior of the U.S.
- Authorities are seeing an increase in the number of high-speed chases and rollover accidents.
- More than half of the drivers caught in Arizona were somewhere between 14 and 28 years old.
PHOENIX — Dozens of teenagers and young adults are getting recruited via social media applications to smuggle undocumented migrants from the Arizona-Mexico border to larger cities farther in the country like Tucson and Phoenix.
Investigators and analysts said the lure of fast and easy money, plus lies about the consequences they can face if they get caught, make young U.S. citizens especially vulnerable recruits.