Some migrants who Enter the United States illegally They are being helped by US citizens in what is a lucrative business. A few hours after a woman arrived illegally at the land of the United States, she met with CBS News in a security house near the southern border of New Mexico.
The woman said she was desperate to escape violence in the city of Zacatecas in central Mexico. He paid the smuggers more than $ 15,000 to reach the United States, met with CBS News during the night, and in the morning, he was left at his final destination in the United States.
He learned his trip, CBS News, was facilitated by a network of Americans, smuggling people from all over the stretch of almost 2,000 miles from the southern border in the United States.
CBS News took an internal look at the operation, with the man who introduced her according to speaking only after her identity was masked.
“The Americans, we are doing this, we are the ones who take them,” said the smuggler, whom CBS News refers to Joe.
Joe, who says he was born and grew in the southwest, estimates that he has hired “about 500” people in the United States.
Here is an idea of how your part of the operation works. First, Joe is sent a location by a smuggling organization.
“They send me GPS: ‘Come here’. And they enter my vehicle, and then we are going,” Joe explained.
After migrants illegally cross the United States With the help of the posters, Joe meets them often takes them to one of several hotels or motels throughout the region used to save migrants.
“We are going to a motel that was used as, you know, a place to help illegal immigrants to stay and live there for a little, as for a few days, before they catch trips to go north,” Joe said.
Joe acknowledges that most Americans consider what they do to be “wrong.”
“Is it wrong? Joe asked.” Yes, many people think it’s wrong. I try to say, you know, I am doing something well to help a family out, trying to get away from that poverty, that violence, that danger in Mexico, to reach their family here in the United States. ”
He tells CBS News that he lost his work during the pandemic and considers that this simply everything is about making money, and when a friend offered him an opportunity in this line of work, he took advantage of it. He revealed that he earns around $ 2,000 per person who helps the United States, sometimes moving six people per week.
He showed CBS News multiple receipts, wire transfers of the families of the people he moved. Some were for $ 1,500, others for $ 2,500. And like him We are intensifying the application In the new Trump administration, the migrant cost is rising.
Joe told CBS News that since the Trump administration assumed the position, the current rate for smuggling to people Oveta the border and throughout the United States has doubled and, in some cases, tripled.
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