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pollero

pollero

Spanish

Noun

pollero m (plural polleros)

  1. (El Salvador) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
    Trabajar de pollero era legal en El Salvador a finales de los 70. - To work as a coyote was legal in El Salvador during the late 70s.
    • 2014-07-13,, Óscar Martínez with reports from Jimmy Alvarado, "Los niños no se van: se los llevan", El Faro, newspaper, URL:http://www.elfaro.net/es/201407/noticias/15683/ link, accessed 2014-07-18
      Es un coyote, un pollero, que ha visto los diferentes tiempos de la migración [...] - He is a coyote, a smuggler of illegal immigrants, who has seen different epochs of migration [...]

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