Calling people Coyotes is racist and gets people murdered
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Because smugglers smuggle drugs, weapons, slaves, etc. The specific act of smuggling people because they paid you to is more precise.
Or let's generalize more! "Some people who did something."
Doesn't this use of the word come from Mexican?
Person is literally saying "Let's ignore the human toll of this crime because words are killing people!"
Yes, we adopted the use of Coyote to refer to human smugglers within the Latin-America/Southern United States region from the Mexicans.
In an ironic way, they are calling Mexicans racist.