Mexican Drug Cartels Recruit Young Latinos In Southern California

Drug Cartels Hiring Texas Children for Drugs Trafficking - Allvoices

Abstract: A lot of young peoples, under than 16, sometimes as young as 11 years old, are recruited in the US by drug's cartel, to work along the country in order to smuggle drug, sometimes as murderer like Edgar Jumenez Lugo, 14 years old, native of San Francisco. Actually the Children's Right Network of Mexico says that more than 30000 children under 18 are working for a drug Cartel, principally because of their constitutional immunity under 14 years old.

Quotation: "Mexican drug cartels, in a disturbing new trend, are luring young people from Southern California to smuggle drugs across the border and carry out other illicit work for the criminal enterprises" "The recruitment of children and adolescents can be explained, in part because children under 14 have constitutional immunity against being held criminally responsible for their actions, even for the crimes of murder, kidnapping and torture"

Index Terms: Young peoples, Recruitment, United States, constitutional immunity

Found with: Latino voices on Huffington post

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/28/youth-recruited-for-drug-cartels_n_1173117.html

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