A risky trip? Officials say fewer Central Americans immigrating From: themonitor.com
Tagged: border, policePosted on: May 28th, 2008
Broke and hungry, several Central Americans begged for food and impatiently scanned oncoming traffic from their perch on a dusty roundabout in Reynosa, waiting for a truck that might pick them up for a day’s work.
The morning smell of roasting taco meat that wafted from a nearby block taunted the already hungry illegal immigrants as they recounted the odyssey from their home countries that left them penniless and stranded.
The 30 or so immigrants had left home to seek work in the United States, but after paying off police and gang members on their trip through the Mexican countryside, they were unable to afford a coyote, or human smuggler, to lead them across the Rio Grande.”*
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