'Those who arrived at the border and are already there in groups or caravans and are stuck there sometimes are so desperate they hire the services of a smuggler...a lot of smugglers visit migrant shelters and find new clients,' said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera of George Mason University.
Despite the risks of injury and death that come with crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the business of human smuggling continues to attract customers. In a statement to, Customs and Border Protection reported prices range from a hundred to a few thousand dollars for Mexican nationals, from $8,000 to $10,000 for Central Americans, and from as high as $15,000 to more for people coming from Brazil or Ecuador.
In El Salvador, $8,000 equals almost 70,000 Salvadoran Colón , with the most typical salary being over $61,000 . In Guatemala $8,000 equals over $61,800 Guatemalan Quetzal while the most typical salary totals over $92,000 GTQ. "These criminal organizations do not care about the safety and well-being of the people they are smuggling; they care only about the money," a CBP spokesperson wrote in a statement to."The cartel-affiliated human smuggling organizations send their recruiters to other countries and convince vulnerable people and their families to pay large sums to be smuggled illegally."
With money centered as their primary focus, smuggling groups, which pay fees to travel through cartel-occupied lands but are generally not cartel members themselves, do consider the reputation of their services. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a political science professor at George Mason University who studies human trafficking in Latin America, said smugglers gain reputations within their areas of operation and people come to know which smugglers offer the safest and most efficient services.
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