For Your Next Vacation, Pretend to Be an Illegal Immigrant in El Alberto, Mexico Judith Dubin and Bethany O'Grady - Vocativ
go to original September 2, 2014

Tourists go to Mexico to relax on its beautiful beaches - oh, and to participate in simulated illegal border crossings. (MSNBC)

You could give up more than your freedom by crossing into the U.S. from Mexico illegally. You could lose your life. In 2013, 445 people died trying to sneak into the United States, the majority of them Mexican.

So why are tourists paying to recreate that harrowing experience every weekend? In collaboration with MSNBC, Vocativ traveled 500 miles south of the U.S. border to the town of El Alberto, Mexico, to find out.

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