Smugglers use Uber-registered drivers to move migrants to US border

Privacy breach: 674 Uber drivers in the US were believed to have been affected by the breach, said Uber.

MEXICO CITY: Human traffickers are finding increasingly creative ways of shuttling Central American migrants through Mexico to the US border, and that includes hiring Uber-registered drivers. 

On June 10, five vehicles carrying 34 Central American migrants were apprehended while traveling together between the northern Mexican states of Zacatecas and Coahuila, said Segismundo Doguin, a Coahuila state official at the National Migration Institute (INM).