11-12-2023, 10:15 PM
(11-12-2023, 06:26 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: 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.
Yeah, I've known a handful of people who migrated here illegally but most of them had overstayed their visa. They flew in and just never went back. I have never heard first hand accounts of the walking route. I did meet a guy who was kidnapped and gutted by the cartel, though. He even showed me the scar. It started just below his belly button and curved and zig-zagged up to near his chest. They sliced him open and dumped him on the side of the road, but he was found.
I can't imagine what it would take for me to rely on these organizations to get me here safely.
