EL PASO, Texas – Cartel members prey on vulnerable migrants desperate to get to America, viewing them as products they can exploit for money or sex, directors from two El Paso nonprofits told Fox News.
“When [migrants] travel through, there’s a lot of cartels, a lot of mafia that they encounter that take advantage of them, who don’t see them as people, but see them as products to be moved and profit from,” Nicole Reulet, director of marketing at the Rescue Mission of El Paso said. “It really is a humanitarian crisis.”
“It’s much bigger than downtown El Paso,” she added. “It’s much bigger than the rescue mission. It’s much bigger than Texas. It’s a nationwide problem.”
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John Martin, the director of the Opportunity Center for the Homeless in El Paso, has also witnessed the crisis.
“There are individuals that prey on the most vulnerable,” he said. “That’s…