The dangers migrants face have only gotten higher as both law enforcement and smugglers use increasingly sophisticated methods trying to outwit each other. | via NPR
In this aerial view, members of law enforcement investigate a tractor trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas.The tragic deaths of at least 53 people in a tractor trailer in San Antonio are an emphatic reminder of the dangers migrants face — and how the risks have only gotten higher as both law enforcement and smugglers use increasingly sophisticated methods trying to outwit each other., leading to the discovery of dozens of bodies.
"I can assure you it happens more than we realize," he tells NPR."And obviously, more get by than we catch. So I can only imagine just how pervasive the practice is."It's not as basic as crowding into a truck in Mexico People who want to evade the authorities face an array of challenges, from X-rays to K-9 teams and cameras. As in the 2017 tragedy, it's likely that people who were in the trailer in San Antonio this week had crossed the border on foot, before gathering in Laredo to be loaded into a truck.
The city is just 150 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, on two busy corridors that reach across the U.S.: I-10 running between Los Angeles and Florida and I-35 running from the border crossing at Laredo up north to Minnesota. "We've heard reports of tens of thousands of dollars, depending on where they're coming from and where their destination is," Enriquez said.
One thing that has changed is the difficulty of crossing into the U.S. Because of the measures people take to elude new technologies, Enriquez said, migrants' journeys continue to get more dangerous.
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