Criminal Mexican cartels now make more money trafficking people across the U.S. border than they do selling drugs, according to President Trump’s pick to be the first-ever national “border czar.”

What’s more, said Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, cartels apparently prefer moving humans because the legal consequences aren’t as bad if they are caught.

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