Immigration Reality: Smugglers Guide Illegal Immigrants With Cues via Cellphone

Gee, somebody on the U.S. side noticed:  “They always come up with new, clever ways of trying to avoid us,” said T. J. Bonner, past president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union for agents. “This way minimizes the risk to smugglers, and you’re using a technology that is relatively cheap.”

Smugglers Guide Illegal Immigrants With Cues via Cellphone - NYTimes.com: "Guides still accompany the bulk of the migrants crossing the border, activists and Border Patrol agents say. Those guides are in regular radio contact with confederates, who warn of trouble ahead. But the Border Patrol has been noticing cases of migrants crossing alone but in cell contact with guides, said Mario Escalante, a spokesman for the Tucson office of the Border Patrol."