Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, Sex Trafficking, Child Labor: How Cartels Treat the Youngest Migrants
You’ve heard the horror stories of illegal immigrant children forced into sex trafficking or labor trafficking. Jarrod Sadulski, an expert on smuggling, can tell you how those children end up in the hands of the cartels in the first place.
Mr. Sadulski has been studying the cartels and talking with migrants on both sides of the border and is revealing horrifying details of what the smugglers do to children.
Nearly every single migrant from Central America or South America is robbed in some way, he said. Some are killed if they can’t pay. Others are kidnapped and taken to Western Union to collect money from family members.
Children are stolen from families south of the border and become unaccompanied alien children in the U.S. The government sends them to communities across the country, where a grim fate often awaits: occasionally sex trafficking, but usually forced labor.
“The cartels are exploiting this by having children placed with sponsors who exploit the children for profit,” Mr. Sadulski said. (Read more from “Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, Sex Trafficking, Child Labor: How Cartels Treat the Youngest Migrants” HERE)