A slang term for smugglers who facilitate the migration of people across the Mexico-United States border. When Oscar and his mother Manuela return to the United States, they find two coyotes who guide them through a hole in the border fence in order to join Oscar’s father, Ramiro, in Phoenix.
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...ladies who had helped them cross before have now been arrested, so they need new “coyotes.” They meet three of Ramiro’s friends with green cards, who agree to help coordinate the...
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Ramiro’s friends help Manuela and Oscar find two men claiming to be coyotes. They look more like addicts to Oscar, and he is afraid that the men will...
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Oscar, Manuela, and the two coyotes climb through the hole in the chain link fence. They start to jog, and Oscar...
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