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April 27, 2015

Where Are the Children? For extortionists, undocumented migrants have become big business

Sarah Stillman, Where Are the Children? For extortionists, undocumented migrants have become big business. The New Yorker, 27 April 2015. “Tougher border security has made migrants [from Central America] more vulnerable. Routes are more perilous, and organized crime controls many smuggling operations. One activist says, ‘The harder you make it to cross, the more people can charge, the more dangerous the trip becomes.'”

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April 27, 2015 Filed Under: Children, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Law, Organized Crime, Poverty Tagged With: american gateways, americans for immigrant justice, bajadores, border patrol, department of health and human services' office of refugee resettlement, family-detention industry, geo gropu (private prison company), guatemala, hieleras ("ice boxes"), homeland security investigations (h.s.i.), immigration and customs enforcement, mesoamerican migrant movement, migrant-extortion market, national security archive, operation hold-the-line, rio grande valley, stash hoouse, u.s. customs and border protection, women's refugee commission

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