Human Trafficking

The other night at the Resource Center, some Central Americans were sitting trying to decide what to do next. Central Americans have it REALLY rough though, because once The US repatriates them into Mexico, then Mexico grabs them and ships them further south. Well so the Resource Center is a safe zone and the Policia Federal isn't allowed to enter, however the migrants can't sit in there forever. Eventually the Migrants emerged and were escorted over to the Migration Office Next door.

A few days ago things were shuffled and the coyotes and polleros, who guide people through the desert for fees in the neighborhood of 1000US a person, have shifted where they park. Now their vans are right behind our building, conveniently picking up repatriated and deported migrants to re-pay and give crossing another try. It isnt unusual to see migrants pass out building, still putting their shoelaces back in from their visit with the Migra, pulling out a cell phone to call their pollero. That sort of work is illegal in Mexico in theory... that doesn't really mean much. Coyotes and Polleros are NOT allowed in the resource center, though they do try to drum up business there. We know they are there though... always...

So the door to Mexican Migration opens and out comes the Policia Federal with the migrants from Central America... and he takes them to the parking lot.... where he loads them into a coyotes van.

take a moment to think about that... decide what just happened....

The Policia Federal just made a chunk of change selling the central American family to a coyote to take to the US to sell to any of a number of buyers. Human Trafficking. It is just that frequent. And the corruption is everywhere. This is one of the many reasons that USA solutions don't work in Mexico.... a lot of them rely on laws and hierarchy's and so forth. What do you do in this situation? Call the police? .... exactly.

My prayers are with that family tonight.