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Since early 2018, DEA San Diego Field Division (SDFD) has seen a disturbing trend: Mexican cartels are increasingly recruiting juveniles from high schools in southern San Diego County to smuggle drugs through the Ports of Entry (POE). In conjunction with partnering agencies, the SDFD agents have arrested numerous juveniles who...