Mexican cartels are recruiting women to help smuggle humans and drugs across the Texas border because women often get away without jail time.
Over the last two years, at least 140 females have gotten away “scot-free” after being caught smuggling, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe said on Tuesday in an interview on NewsNation. According to Coe, at least 15 to 20 percent of the smugglers caught are women.
Kinney County is near the Texas-Mexico border, about 35 miles southeast of Del Rio. The rural county encompasses 1,365 square miles and is home to about 3,600 residents.
Coe said the cartels have caught on that many small rural counties along the Texas border do not have the facilities to house women inmates, leading to an uptick in female recruitment….