Mexican drug cartels move into human smuggling - Immigrants as commodities

At the Center to Aid Migrants in Exodus shelter, would-be immigrants to the United States shared stories of violence at the hands of human smugglers working for drug cartels.

“You used to be able to walk across” the border, said Javier Corazon, 48, who says he lived in Tucson for decades before being deported two years ago. “Now you never know what’s going to happen. They may leave you, beat you or worse.”

The 30 or so beds at the shelter in this small Mexican town near the Arizona border were filled mostly with Mexicans and a few Central Americans, some of whom remain determined to cross the border.”*

*From: http://www.sfgate.com
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