Migrants using Big Tech to map their journey to border

 Fox News:

For the final leg of his journey from Chile to the United States, Haitian migrant Fabricio Jean followed detailed instructions sent to him via WhatsApp from his brother in New Jersey who had recently taken the route to the Texas border.

His brother wired him 20,000 pesos (about $1,000 U.S. dollars) for the trip, then meticulously mapped it out, warning him of areas heavy with Mexican immigration officials.

What Jean didn’t expect was to find thousands of Haitian migrants like himself crossing at the same remote spot.

The 38-year-old, his wife and two young children earlier this month joined as many as 14,000 mostly Haitian migrants camped under a Del Rio bridge, many of whom left their homeland after its devastating 2010 earthquake and have been living in Latin America, drawn by Brazil and Chile's once-booming economies.

Migrants use platforms like Facebook, YouTube WhatsApp to share information, with the latter being the most popular.

Online messages touting the Mexican town of Ciudad Acuña, across from Del Rio, started after President Joe Biden took office and began reversing some of the Trump administration's immigration policies.

Facebook Inc., which owns WhatsApp, allows people to exchange information about crossing borders, even illegally, but its policy bars posts that ask for money for services that facilitate human smuggling.

Haitians began crossing there this year, but their numbers ballooned after a Biden administration program that briefly opened the door to some asylum seekers ended, said Nicole Phillips, of the San Diego-based Haitian Bridge Alliance, which advocates for Haitian migrants.

Once it ceased in August, people panicked, and the messages recommending Ciudad Acuña "went viral," Phillips said.
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There is more.

The Biden administration is inept at best in dealing with the migration.  By opening the door to the border they encouraged this mess and Big Tech has always been a source of open border support.  It is one of the reasons they spent millions to defeat Trump. 

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