A look into the illegal journey from South America to the United States

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(11-12-2023, 12:48 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Yeah, it is truly heartbreaking. You see some of it in this video and it put it in perspective. 

I work in court and it used to be that most of the people came on tourist visas and overstayed. Travel from Brazil was barred during COVID, so many of them turned to crossing the border with Mexico. I've heard hundreds of stories about what it's like to deal with the coyotes. My father-in-law works on construction crews with some of them, and even a couple friends of mine from my 10+ years back and forth from Brazil have chosen that route. 

The immigration system needs fixing. Unfortunately it's too much of a political football for either party to really want to do anything about it.