Smuggling People Is Now Big Business in Mexico

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 17, 2001| Author: Mary Jordan | Copyright information

Immigrant smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico border, once dominated by local "coyotes" charging relatively small sums to guide Mexicans into the United States, has become a multibillion-dollar industry increasingly controlled by large, well-organized syndicates.

Officials in Mexico and the United States say the evolution of the smuggling industry along the 2,100-mile border has come largely in response to more aggressive U.S. efforts to control illegal immigration. Since 1994, those efforts ...

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