SUNLAND PARK, N.M.— The scrawny teenager boasted he was the best option for migrants heading north from Mexico to this small border city just west of El Paso. He was a self-described old-school coyote, a smuggler of human beings benefiting from a surge in popularity in a decades-old trade. “Here we do things the old-fashioned way: We run like hell,” …
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May 24, 2023