Drug cartels raise the stakes on human smuggling
"The business of smuggling humans across the Mexican border has always been brisk, with many thousands coming across every year.
But smugglers affiliated with the drug cartels have taken the enterprise to a new level -- and made it more violent -- by commandeering much of the operation from independent coyotes, according to these officials and recent congressional testimonies."
JOSH MEYER in the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times.