“They’ll bring them in tractor-trailers, U-Haul trucks, pickup beds, anything that will take a body in there. It’s all about the money.”
Experts said the disaster points to the recklessness with which smugglers act to transport migrants to reap the most profit.
“They have no concern for humanity, none,” said Jack Staton, acting special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations El Paso, Texas, “Each of them means money for the smugglers, from $3,000 to $10,000 apiece,” said Fernando García, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, an immigrant and human rights advocacy group based in El Paso, Texas. “As we see more militarizing of the border, the only beneficiary of that are the cartels. The U.S. government is pushing them into the hands of these smugglers.”
Migrants rest as they take part in a caravan, heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on June 7, 2022. “Thirty years ago, smuggling people was a mom-and-pop business,” García said. “Your family would actually get across and it would cost almost nothing. Now it’s big business and people are dying in numbers we have not seen before.”
An immigrant child looks back toward Mexico after crossing the border into the United States with her family on April 14, 2021, in La Joya, Texas.
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