The Biden administration reportedly expects an unprecedented surge of unaccompanied migrant children showing up on the southern border in hopes of being admitted into the United States during its first year.
Karol Suarez
Special to Louisville Courier Journal
In a one-minute TikTok video last fall, drug traffickers on a rigid inflatable boat yelled to the pilot to speed up as a Customs Surveillance Service vessel of Spain took chase. The viral video, which got more than 1 million views, looked like a scene from the Netflix “Narcos” series. But it was a real, high-speed chase in the cartel drug wars.
Cartels have long used social media to shock and intimidate their enemies, said Howard Campbell, anthropologist and drug expert at the University of Texas at El Paso. It has proven to be an effective strategy,” he said. “The use of TikTok is just the latest phase of this phenomenon.”