TikTok is being used by a group of “coyotes”, who are smuggling immigrants across the border in the north. The New York Post reported that one of the posts read: “Payment after reach.” According to the report that noted six coyote accounts, the passage service costs up to $5,000. Posts are periodically posted and then quickly deleted.
The Post requested services from Montreal to New York State for $4,500. A coyote said to the Post reporter undercover, “When you’re ready to leave, send me your identification.”
According to the Post, these services include a two-hour drive and a twenty-five-minute “group walk” through an unguarded wood. Five migrants are taken at a given time.
“The service was excellent, and we were able to get through the process very easily,” a reported illegal Indian migrant wrote on a blog as a testimonial.
The southern border gets all the attention, but the Canada-U.S. Border is the largest in the entire world. It remains unguarded despite the focus on the south.
Shinder Purewal, a political scientist at Kwantlen Polytechnic University told The Post that “they call it a boundary but you can cross whenever you want.” “It’s an undefended border. Nobody is on basically either side.”
But Donald Trump will bust all of these Canadian smugglers.
The Post reported that “this type of behavior is indicative of a culture of incompetence, and how brazen the drug trafficking, and human smuggling, had become during the previous administration.” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) said.
“Well, there’s some good news for those criminals. There’s a brand new sheriff around.”
Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) called for an inquiry when contacted by the media about this report.
Malliotakis, a Post reporter, said that the Department of Justice “should investigate how these apps were being used for nefarious activities and obtain cooperation from the companies who operate them.”