The night of March 8, a presunto person trafficker publicly offers its “service” including its rates on a Facebook page called ‘Cruze (sic) in United States Mex’. Details about its prices of $ 2,300 per “one hour” and up to $ 4,200 per unit que llegaba in Houston, Texas. “We work hard and get the most out of it”, decide the message.
This page was canceled, but the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) organization advised in a new reporter which found a total of 50 private accounts and groups on this platform that uses cell phones dedicated to the migration of immigrants without obscuring their illicit activities.
More from the page of the pages identified by TTP then created from the last step and note that an appendix does the last month “operating freely without any restriction”, advised the informant. One of these private groups has more than 230,000 members.
The problem continues because, following the analysis published this week, the Facebook operating system facilitates searching for a coyote colocating the phrases “Travel to the United States” or “Cruise to the United States”.
Además, Allows users to have private conversations with their users and has other algorithms recommended for other criminal cases.
“Criminals who do not have reservations about abusing persons and violating the law will use any of them to dispose of them in order to apprehend the desperate,” said Katie Paul, director of TTP, in a statement sent to Univision Notices.
“Surprisingly, Facebook is one of these devices and, while the company has effective tools, not just an artificial intelligence solution, traffickers have access to vulnerable groups and a megaphone to advertise their services.
550,000 arrested in front
The last use of this social red on the part of the coyotes when kilometers of immigrants of the Northern Triangle of Central America and Mexico, including unaccompanied minors, facing the front to take refuge in the United States Governorate. This has generated a new migration crisis.
From October 1, 2020 until the end of April 3, 550,000 people fueron detenidas por agents de la Patrulla Fronteriza, eso es casi de double met cono same period of the fiscal cycle anterior. The large number of adults is (410,460), followed by family units (92,000) and less than only solo (47,642), second digits of the Office of the Aduanas and Control Fronterizo (CBP).
If the authorities are different reports and images of children rescued by frontier officers, the CBP statistics indicate that their adults are more likely to cross the EUEU. The increase has been 209.1% during this period and more from the Mexican era.
Clearly, the Facebook de los coyotes can search for a client, but they can not locate the Fronteriza patrol. “Cruze (sic) 100%. There is no cobra in Mexico until we find the other lad. It does not pay for hospidaje, comida ni transporcici aquí en Mexicali (Baja California). We live in the area of Los Angeles (sic). We are serious people ”, is a group with more than 299,000 members that were detected by the Tech Transparency Project.
In a statement sent to this editor, Facebook dice that is focused on finding pages that promote this activity and mentions that analyzes the TTP information to take media.
“Prohibimos el contenido que ofrezca o ayude con el trafica de persona. We have eliminated this content and will continue to do so, ”said a platform spokesperson.
Private conversations encrypted
Tech Transparency Project confirms to Facebook that you will be selling the ad of the different kinds of problems, the different reports regarding the persons of the persons and the social networks. maritime cruises in Europe to attract customers from Africa and the Middle East.
“Through the TTP investigation, new evidence is emerging that Facebook is becoming a passenger traffic operations center,” the organization said.
Informed us that the coyotes use the categories of ‘travel company’ y ‘product / service’ to classify its pages, a feature that facilitates potential customers to find.
Traffickers will publish details and rates of the cruises, pictures of people aboard inflatable boats in the Great River and photos of people driving through the desert.
In addition, the TTP discovers that an automated venture allows users to have private communication with criminal offenses. “QUIERES CRUZAR MANDAME MSJS POR INBOX (sic)”, asked a Facebook group with 484 members called ‘Cruzes Seguros oficial’.
Other accounts directing conversations in WhatsApp, an application that offers an encrypted communication system that has actually been the investigations of the agencies of the order.
Some of these Facebook pages offer detailed descriptions of the travel arrangements that are offered, as well as the cost of the trip for one person, generally in miles of dollars. “There are simply public images of buses with emoticons from stadium banners that indicate the United States as the final destination and hope that the users express interest”, details the information.
“Quedé unconsciente en el monte”
The TTP investigation observed that an internet alert to the Mexican authorities came to the publication of the page ‘Camino De Todos Los Migrantes Hacia Estados Unidos’ “Up to $ 9,000 in travel” in its case 4,000 followers. The next active date is April 7th.
“This is the criminal trafficker of Honduran persons. Les pido que hagan algo (…) Métanlo a la carcel ”, writes a person who is labeled by the Guardia Nacional and the Instituto Nacional de Migración de México.
Social speeches, too, are a sign that the governing body of the United States is using it to dissuade immigrants from planning to travel north.
In fact, the administration of Joe Biden has distributed 28,000 Latin American radio announcements, as well as messages on the Twitter account of the Embassy in Guatemala.
“Unfortunately, there are many coyotes and other people who come to believe that the front is open, that the truck is not dangerous, but its said,” said the EU ambassador to Spain, William Pop, in an audio publication by Twitter March 31.
On the following day, this embassy is full of a video in which the dramatic testimony of a Central American woman who has been chased during various days by the desert has been shunned. Dos agents de la Patrulla Fronteriza la encontraron y le salvaron la vida.
“It simply came to our notice then. Le dicen a uno los coyotes: ‘solo vas a caminar una noche’. Y eso es mentira. When we go to the mountain we tell the guide: ‘hay que caminar, hay que rodear’. We went for five days and five nights… Tomábamos agua de donde toman las vacas y eso ha perjudicado mi salud… Con qué esfuerzo yo venía caminando… Quede Unconsciente en el monte ”, relató ella.
