Current：Home > Scams'False sense of calm': How social media misleads Mexican migrants about crossing US border -OceanicInvest
'False sense of calm': How social media misleads Mexican migrants about crossing US border
View
Date：2025-04-18 11:25:01
A black ski mask conceals the man’s face.
The anonymous YouTube channel host almost always sports a black baseball cap embellished with the channel’s logo above his mask. The hat depicts a stylized orange and red emblem of a desert vista with the words “aventuras por el desierto,” meaning adventures through the desert.
The channel had nearly 9,000 subscribers and a catalog of 180 videos that offered advice, stories and tips on the process of crossing the Arizona-Mexico border.
Videos walked viewers through how much they would have to pay in smuggling fees and advice on how to cross without a guide or “coyote.”
veryGood！ (7)
Related
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Several States Using Little-Known Fund to Jump-Start the Clean Economy
- Teen Mom's Catelynn Lowell Celebrates Carly's 14th Birthday With Sweet Tribute
- Fighting Climate Change Can Be a Lonely Battle in Oil Country, Especially for a Kid
- Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires
- YouTuber Hank Green Shares His Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Cancer Diagnosis
- Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses
- Uh-oh. A new tropical mosquito has come to Florida. The buzz it's creating isn't good
- Biden administration makes final diplomatic push for stability across a turbulent Mideast
- Commonsense initiative aims to reduce maternal mortality among Black women
Ranking
- Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow owns a $3 million Batmobile Tumbler
- Pete Davidson charged with reckless driving for March crash in Beverly Hills
- A months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps
- Vanderpump Rules' James Kennedy Addresses Near-Physical Reunion Fight With Tom Sandoval
- A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish
- Several States Using Little-Known Fund to Jump-Start the Clean Economy
- Dakota Pipeline Builder Under Fire for Ohio Spill: 8 Violations in 7 Weeks
- How law enforcement is promoting a troubling documentary about 'sextortion'
Recommendation
Who are the most valuable sports franchises? Forbes releases new list of top 50 teams
Megan Fox Rocks Sheer Look at Sports Illustrated Event With Machine Gun Kelly
Q&A: 50 Years Ago, a Young Mother’s Book Helped Start an Environmental Revolution
Climate Change Fingerprints Were All Over Europe’s Latest Heat Wave, Study Finds
Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
This Week in Clean Economy: Major Solar Projects Caught Up in U.S.-China Trade War
Selling Sunset Reveals What Harry Styles Left Behind in His Hollywood House
Northeast Aims to Remedy E.V. ‘Range Anxiety’ with 11-State Charging Network