{"id":1828434,"date":"2023-01-30T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828434"},"modified":"2023-01-30T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:53:38","slug":"rhode-island-school-solicits-funds-to-pay-cartel-coyote-who-smuggled-illegal-alien-student-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rhode-island-school-solicits-funds-to-pay-cartel-coyote-who-smuggled-illegal-alien-student-into-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island School Solicits Funds to Pay Cartel &#8220;Coyote&#8221; Who Smuggled Illegal Alien Student Into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frhode-island-school-solicits-funds-to-pay-cartel-coyote-who-smuggled-illegal-alien-student-into-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-03\/GettyImages-548929059.jpg?h=f2fcf546&#038;itok=WqXu2Nh3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A scheme in which a Rhode Island student was allegedly smuggled into America by a Mexican cartel is under investigation. \u201ccoyote,\u201d Or human trafficker.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Assistant Principal Stephani Harvey, Ed.D., of Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, Rhode Island, sent an email to school staff, stating: \u201cHello Team: Please see the message below regarding your consideration for an urgent matter to support one of our own students here at Mount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a student who came to America with \u2018Coyote,\u2019 which is a group that helps people. This group gives you a time frame to make a payment of $5000 dollars to those, who bring them into the states. Our student needs our urgent support to raise another $2000 to meet his goal of $5000 by February 1st, 2023. Please consider helping if you can by donating on Friday. Melanea will be around to collect money between 8:00-8:45am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The email is referring to Melanea Lopez-Vallejo, the school\u2019s guidance counselor, who says she is a \u201cmission preacher,\u201d According to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melanea.lopezvallejo\/about_details\">Facebook page<\/a>. The student is also said to be a Guatemalan 18-year old male, according to a source close to the school, who spoke anonymously out of fear of reprisals from the school or school district.<\/p>\n<p>When The Center Square first obtained a copy of Harvey\u2019s email and contacted the school on Friday morning, the principal\u2019s secretary, Michele Sylvia, said it was \u201cfake.\u201d She said Harvey didn\u2019t send the email; no one was soliciting money for illegal activity.<\/p>\n<p>The same morning, the school\u2019s principal, Tiffany Delaney, sent an email to staff stating, \u201cI was informed there was an email seeking financial support for one of our students. I appreciate the faculty and staff contributing to a cause that supports a student, but the nature of the request is not appropriate. All funds contributed will be returned and we will seek more appropriate methods to support our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvey and Delaney didn&#8217;t respond to requests for comment by The Center Square. Later, a spokesperson from Providence Public School District was available. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rhode-island-high-school-staff-solicits-donations-pay-cartel-coyote-brought-student-u-s\">Confirmed<\/a> the emails were authentic, telling Fox News \u201cthe email in question was sent to staff at Mount Pleasant High School. The school\u2019s principal immediately took steps to have a retraction issued when she learned of the email. The Providence Public Schools District is currently investigating. &#8220;We will not comment on any ongoing personnel issues to ensure that proper processes can be followed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Ch. According to The Center Square, 11 of the state criminal law was violated by school staff. A law enforcement official pointed this out to The Center Square. They might also have broken Federal Law, 8 USC1324, which applies to \u201calien smuggling,\u201d An ex-Department of Homeland Security investigator said that he spoke on condition of anonymity to The Center Square because he was concerned about reprisal.<\/p>\n<p>The statute prohibits \u201calien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts,\u201d Acts that coyotes engage.<\/p>\n<p>An ex-DHS investigator stated that the school officials&#8217; actions seem like something someone would say. \u201c\u2018I want to sell a kilo of cocaine. Let\u2019s raise money to buy a kilo and sell it.\u2019 That\u2019s engaging in conspiracy to commit a crime. Any school official claiming ignorance is not a defense for violating the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coyotes are human smugglers who work for Mexican cartels to illegally bring foreign nationals into America. Border officials told The Center Square that smugglers can face extreme violence, such as rape, starvation, and being held against one&#8217;s will. Once they are smuggled into the U.S. they owe the cartels large sums. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/texas\/rescued-trafficked-victim-it-takes-5-to-13-years-to-buy-freedom\/article_cb07ce60-6f54-11ed-bf51-d7f7a2d9c245.html\">And either<\/a> Pay it off by engaging in illegal activity or becoming a victim to modern-day slave labor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoyotes are some of the most ruthless people on the planet,\u201d The Center Square heard from Thad Cleveland, Texas Terrell County Sheriff. Cleveland, who was a Border Patrol agent and pursues coyotes daily, told The Center Square. \u201cThey prey on their own people to make a dollar. I\u2019ve seen them push illegal aliens to a point of exhaustion and even death. I\u2019ve interviewed people that were abused by them in various ways as well. When we can apprehend and identify a coyote, we prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd, who\u2019s leading a cartel interdiction task force in Texas, told The Center Square the assistant principal\u2019s email \u201cis unrealistic\u201d and isn\u2019t how Mexican cartels operate. The purported Guatemalan national might not be innocent, he added. Boyd and other law enforcement officers have revealed to The Center Square that cartels use teenager boys and young men who claim to be under 18 years old to smuggle into the U.S. illegally as unaccompanied minors to facilitate criminal activity for cartels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCartels don\u2019t allow indebted illegal aliens to reside freely in the United States and attend high school unless that person is there for the purpose of providing a revenue stream for the cartel,\u201d He said. \u201cThis usually includes distributing drugs, recruiting locals into employment with the cartel, or as was the case in the Midwest last year, the movement of local teenage girls into cartel custody for forced prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the hazards of not being aware of the fact that Mexican cartels have a presence in every city in the US is that it allows them to operate with little fear of prosecution,\u201d Boyd agreed. \u201cLaw enforcement and citizens alike need to be aware of the fact that if they have drugs and\/or illegal aliens in their community (we all do), Mexican cartels are operating and living in their area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Solas, a parental rights advocate and resident of South Kingston, Rhode Island, who first publicized the emails, told The Center Square, \u201cIt&#8217;s important for parents, students, and taxpayers to know how many illegal alien unaccompanied minors are in our public school system, how many came who were trafficked by cartel coyotes, and what if any role school districts, principals or others are involved in facilitating alleged criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn assistant principal allegedly soliciting money on school property, using school resources to facilitate funding alleged cartel-related criminal activity should trouble everyone. The border crisis isn&#8217;t just at the U.S.-Mexico border. It&#8217;s in our public schools right here in Rhode Island, several thousand miles north. Parents and taxpayers deserve answers and I encourage everyone to submit public records requests to get them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scheme in which a Rhode Island student was allegedly smuggled into America by a Mexican cartel is under investigation. \u201ccoyote,\u201d Or human trafficker. On Thursday night, Assistant Principal Stephani Harvey, Ed.D., of Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, Rhode Island, sent an email to school staff, stating: \u201cHello Team: Please see the message below &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1828437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[16934,8687,7112,4543,4207,12269,5280,16935,3924,11974,16936,5135,7238],"class_list":["post-1828434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-coyote","tag-alien","tag-cartel","tag-funds","tag-illegal","tag-island","tag-pay","tag-rhode","tag-school","tag-smuggled","tag-solicits","tag-student","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}