Drug dealers force migrants to carry backpacks filled with drugs.

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It is a from of barter between drug dealers and "smugglers", in exchange for leaving them to continue working at the zone of Tecate, the drug traffickers utilize the undocumented as transportation of marijuana and cocaine. Sometimes at gunpoint they are forced, at other times they receive payments from members of
organized crime. Illegal immigration continues being the great business for both criminal groups.
Néstor Cruz Tijerina

Tecate stopped being the paradise for "smugglers" that made business in this zone, and not exactly because the attorney general's office of the Republic (PGR) or the attorney general's office of Justice of the State (PGJE) are fighting them efficiently.

Now, united for a cause but separated, a group of these people and another group of agents from Grupo Beta that asked not to be identified, denounced to be victims of the drug-traffickers: In the case of the "smugglers", they assure that the drug traffickers, at gun point, forced them to cross drugs through their "clients" the immigrants, in backpacks or in bags.

And in the case of the agents of the National Institute of Migration, they confirm that when they want to carry out their preventive work, they have ran into to the same armed subjects which intimidate them and scare away.

"It is an open secret this about migrants crossing drugs (sic), nevertheless, it is a reality that increases every day, since now it is more difficult to pass drugs from other areas to the United States", they assured.

The agents of Group Beta also fear for their lives: "We, at times, just arrive with the migrants (sic) to do a routine survey, about where they are from, they come, what their age is etc, or well, or why they need some type of medical aid. But suddenly a group of armed people arrives and questions us about what we are doing, then we have no choice but to leave, since many of us are not armed and we would not be able to respond any aggression". They denounced that the main zones where they have run into these people are in the Cañada del Sol, Loma Tova and Roca Magisterial, "but they can appear at any part".

The "smugglers" told that in their crossings, suddenly, armed people with AK 47 rifles or guns surround them. Then, they ask to speak with the "leader" of the group, that is with whom they carry out the negotiation.