Party at Carla’s house! Kala Bokelman, diplomatic security special agent, tells of a raid on a house straddling the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border. The goal? To stop coyotes smuggling people from Cuba to the US via Ecuador and every state in between. The problem? Her jurisdiction ends in Carla’s back yard.
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