Night Hike: For Your Next Mexico Vacation, Pretend to Be an Illegal Immigrant Vocativ
go to original November 24, 2014

Extreme tourism: Illegal cross (Vocativ)

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? As part of our collaboration with MSNBC, Vocativ traveled 500 miles south of the U.S. border to the town of El Alberto, Mexico, to find out.

El Alberto is home to the Caminata Nocturna, or Night Hike, a simulated illegal border crossing created in 2004 to teach the people of Mexico and Central America just how brutal the journey can be.

See the original at Vocativ

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