Migrants paying for comfortable bus ride across Mexico to US border
AP:
Mexican authorities say migrant traffickers have adopted a new trick to smuggle Central American clients to the U.S. border: renting high-end tour buses.It does probably beat being packed into the hidden compartment of a truck. I suspect they bring their own food with them for the trip. It also demonstrates how ineffective Mexico can be at dealing with obvious migration as long as they are just passing through.
Mexico's Immigration Institute says it has found 102 migrants on two buses being used to whisk them across the length of the country.
The migrants reported paying between $7,000 and $10,000 to go from an area near the Guatemalan border to Reynosa, a city across from McAllen, Texas.
The institute said Monday that because the traffickers wanted to move quickly, they had not stopped to get the migrants food or water for two days.
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