British media: "Big Business" on Stealing Immigration, "Big Business" on the Border of Mo Mei

On July 1, the Broadcasting Corporation, the original title: The truck driver said that immigrants in the United States and Mexico borders are a "big business" a Mexican American driver saying that it is difficult for traffic truck drivers to work near the border. The temptation of making money easily.

US -Mexico border data chart. Picture source: IC Photo

The driver, a pseudonym "David", said that in the southern border of the United States, stealing immigrants was a "big business", and in the process, death was commonplace.

Last week, 53 immigrants were found to die in San Antonio, Texas, and they were locked in a hot and dehydrated truck, and eventually died of heat stroke and dehydration. David believes that similar deaths are unlikely to stop.

David said in an interview that those truck drivers who have a difficult life often accept the proposal of stealing immigrants. "They have to spend money in their lives, and to support their family. Sometimes they will take risks."

"Sometimes people do this business from Central America. They come to the United States and live here, but they can only make money by transport people." David said that he had received the quotation many times, and he understood this Temptation. "You see your friends make money and see others on vacation. You wondered why you are so poor ... You start looking for opportunities, and sometimes you do something dangerous to get a lot of money. Sometimes even some terrible things. Of course, I will never do this. I don't want to take the risk of personal injury. "

David's father is also an immigrant illegally entering the United States. "My father cried as soon as he talked about it. He didn't eat for 4 days that year. He ran away from the border patrol many times. He had to hide in a trash can a few nights. This is a very sad experience." David said: "He has experienced so many suffering before he came here."

However, these experiences still occur today on immigrants passing through the border. "Someone has been dying. Sometimes they starve to death, and sometimes drowned when crossing the Grand River (a river separated from the United States and Mexico). They come from Guatemala, Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico. The border thought it was easy to pass. "David said.

According to statistics from the International Immigration Organization, at least 650 immigrants died in the United States and Mexico in 2021. This is the year since 2014.

The recent incident in San Antonio was a smuggling with the largest number of deaths since the record, but the large -scale casualties of the border were not the only one. For example, in 2003, 19 people were found to die in a dairy truck. The authorities later said that the temperature once reached 78 degrees Celsius in a non -ventilated car. The survivors later testified that they were forced to squeeze the cave around the side of the truck to breathe, kicking the signal light, trying to attract the attention of nearby drivers. In another incident in 2017, 39 people were found to be trapped in a truck near a Wal -Mart supermarket in San Antonio. 8 people died at the scene, and two other people were sent to the doctor. (Author Little Bernard Tetesman, translated by Chen Junan)

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