Wall on US-Mexico Border Will Benefit Human Traffickers, La Jornada Reports Prensa Latina
go to original February 7, 2017

How a Coyote Smuggles Hundreds of Immigrants: Ramón is Mexican and he has worked over the last six years crossing immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. Here he shares how he does it, how he has to pay the cartels for each person he smuggles in and what the dangers of the journey are. (Univision Noticias)

The wall that President Donald Trump intends to raise on the Mexican border could benefit human traffickers (polleros, Mexican term) who will increase their rates and profits, newspaper La Jornada reported today.

Alejandro Moreno, in the trade for 19 years, granted an interview to the newspaper and detailed the system under which he operates and why the wall will not be an impediment to continue entering undocumented immigrants to the neighboring country.

'We're already rubbing our hands; the wall will not be any obstacle, on the contrary, it will give us greater profits because the jump will be more expensive,' this undocumented broker says.

Moreno works for an organized group of ˜polleros' that operates between Sonora and Arizona and with each crossing transports between 30 and 50 migrants.

He says that the network of human traffickers of which he is a part has helped more than 300 000 undocumented migrants to cross the border towns of Nogales.

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