Business is booming! Child migrant smugglers tell how they make $4,000 profit per person on treacherous clandestine journey from Central America to the US
Vast majority of migrants who enter the U.S. illegally do so with the help of a network of smugglers known as ‘coyotes’
Business generates $6.6 billion a year for smugglers along Latin America’s routes to the U.S.
Migrants pay anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 each for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks
Some of the money is used to pay off government officials, gangs operating on trains and drug cartels controlling the routes north
The profit made by the coyotes can be as much as $4,000 per person
The smugglers are profiting from the rising violence in gang-ridden cities of Central America, and the yearning of families to be reunited
‘It’s like a little chain, everyone is earning,’ said one Mexican official
I think child smuggling should warrant the death penalty.