Smuggling Migrants Toward the U.S. Is a Booming Business

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Hundreds of thousands of migrants try to get from South America to the United States each year. But first, they have to get past the treacherous Darien Gap, a 70-mile stretch of dense jungle. WSJ’s Juan Forero explains the booming business that has cropped up to help smuggle migrants through — or around — it. Further Reading: - Smuggling Migrants Toward the U.S. Is a Booming Business - To Avoid the Jungles of Central America, Migrants Are Taking a Treacherous Sea Route - Masses of Migrants Overwhelm Panama’s Darién Gap Further Listening: - Texas Took On Border Security. Is It Working? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Olivia Pierozzini lives in Venezuela and she remembers the day her daughter approached her with a plan.
0:12.0	Her daughter, whose name is Leo Marley,
0:15.0	said she was planning to move to the United States
0:18.0	with her husband and seven-year-old daughter.
0:20.0	I didn't like her plan at all. I told her no people have to make do and try to get by little by little.
0:30.0	She told me no one has to find a way to make a better life.
0:36.7	Leo Marley was insistent.
0:38.6	She said Venezuela had nothing to offer her,
0:41.1	and she'd been planning to leave for months.
0:43.0	In Venezuela, no one point of ingresso.
0:45.0	In Venezuela, no one in the manner of
0:47.2	segira de la lante.
0:48.2	In Venezuela, there's no sources of income.
0:51.0	There's no way to get ahead.
0:53.0	And my daughter, she had a daughter of her own, and she was pregnant with a son.
0:59.0	And she told me, mom, I have to find a better life for myself for my children and also to help you my parents
1:07.6	That's what forced her and her husband basically to leave
1:13.0	But for migrants coming from South America,
1:15.0	they can't get to the US without first getting past one major obstacle,
1:20.0	the Darien Gap.
1:29.6	The Darien Gap is 70 miles of thick jungle that connects Panama and Columbia. There are no roads, just trails, and it's incredibly dangerous. So migrants like Leo Marley have two
1:36.9	options. They can either hike through the Darien gap or they can go around it.
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