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they may actually hold some of these kids in these sort of houses on the other side of the border and call family members in the u.s. and kind of blackmail them into getting that money. so the numbers are a little hazy. but what is certain is that they are cutting these deals, in some cases it s parents within their home country that are arranging these human trafficking efforts up to the u.s. what is your sense of having been down there and been on the trail of what washington or what the dialogue in washington is missing about that piece of the story, the story that takes these people from where they are right up to our border? well, i think what s really been missing in the talk is the fact that this is really a multi-layered problem. and everyone, regardless of their political stripe, seems to want to put it on one answer and not the other. the reality that we saw on the ground is that these kids have a number of reasons for wanting to go. we certainly talked to kids as you saw
these people northward. and there s a couple so many things that come up when i see this. it seems to me that a lot of these people have to have some significant means. there s one moment in there where someone wants $7,000 from them to get the rest of the way. and so it takes some means to get from where they are up to the border. it does. and it s not clear that every coyote gets that $7,000. they may hold it over their heads, they may take a lien on the house back in honduras or guatemala. they may actually hold some of these kids in these sort of houses on the other side of the border and call family members in the u.s. and kind of blackmail them into getting that money. so the numbers are a little hazy. but what is certain is that they are cutting these deals, in some cases it s parents within their home country that are arranging these human trafficking efforts up to the u.s. what is your sense of having been down there and been on the trail of what washington or what