The tunnel is dark and narrow. Toxic gases rise from the dank water. Insects scurry along the sides, rattlesnakes wait, coiled. Rodents lurk along the water’s edge.
Each cartel “travel agency” has a code. The VIP customers receive the code so everyone knows which cartel is working with them “so everyone from local police to rival criminal syndicates knows not to harass them.”Human trafficking has become more profitable than drugs: “A kilo of cocaine might bring in $1,500, but the risk is very high. The cost-benefit of trafficking a person is $10,000, $12,000, $15,000.”For the VIP transit to work, key people must be in on the action. Interviews with migrants and government officials suggest the system relies on an already established flow of bribes that reach from high-level Mexican immigration bureaucrats to the city’s municipal police.
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