Mexican bishops express solidarity with desperate migrants
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People smugglers reap billions selling American dream 19 Apr 2021 / 15:35 H.
MEXICO
CITY: The tide of migrants sweeping across Mexico to the US border is not just a humanitarian crisis it is also a highly organized, multibillion-dollar trafficking business dominated by the drug cartels.
Fleeing poverty, 35-year-old Honduran migrant Juan Macias paid around $7,000 (RM 28,000) in March to a smuggling network, borrowing the money from his relatives.
Macias said that he dealt with eight different traffickers during the journey he made with around 30 other migrants.
“They work through organizations. They’re called guides. Then the cartels are on the border,“ Macias told
AFP at a shelter in Mexico’s border city Ciudad Juarez after he was deported from the United States.
The tide of migrants sweeping across Mexico to the US border is not just a humanitarian crisis it is also a highly organized, multibillion-dollar trafficking business dominated by the drug cartels.
Fleeing poverty, 35-year-old Honduran migrant Juan Macias paid around $7,000 in March to a smuggling network, borrowing the money from his relatives.
Macias said that he dealt with eight different traffickers during the journey he made with around 30 other migrants.
“They work through organizations. They’re called guides. Then the cartels are on the border,” Macias told AFP at a shelter in Mexico’s border city Ciudad Juarez after he was deported from the United States.