Are you still against building a wall after seeing this? Now this ride service is even smuggling humans across the border.
Do you want Trump to build the wall already?
Human traffickers have begun to use Uber to shuttle Central American migrants through Mexico to the US border,
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).
Four of the vehicles were linked to the Uber Technologies Inc platform, Doguin said, but it was unclear whether the human smugglers had hailed the drivers using the Uber app.
The drivers said they weren’t the owners of the cars but worked as Uber chauffeurs, he 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.
Mexican migration officials attribute the increase to migrants finding new routes past checkpoints, increasingly through varied forms of transport.
‘First we saw them on trains, then on buses, then on trucks and today we see them in rented vehicles,’ Doguin said.
Read more: Daily Mail
