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/Sounds like "poh" (as in "port") + "YEH" (as in "yes") + "roh" (as in "row")/

Meaning

On the US-Mexico border, the person who guides and smuggles undocumented migrants across for money. Called pollero because the migrants are called pollos (chickens); works as or for a coyote.

Examples

The pollero abandoned them in the desert halfway through.

They paid the pollero thousands of dollars to bring the family across.

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Regional synonyms

Mexican expression used to introduce something said with total honesty, no filters, no beating around the bush. The way to say "truth be told" in Mexico.