Texas pastor details realities of human smuggling: Ransom gets paid or people get killed

The well-dressed cartel member drove a new Lincoln Navigator. He had clean-cut hair and no tattoos. He demanded the money and gave the pastors the boy, Sanchez said. Then he showed the AR-15 under his coat. “Once the relatives know, they’ll pay any money,” Sanchez said. “When human traffickers don’t collect, they’ll just kill them.”