When legal pathways to immigration are closed, migrants don’t stop coming, they turn to smugglers. Smugglers must pay cartels to move people through their territory. The more aggressively the United States restricts legal entry and patrols traditional crossing routes, the more dangerous those crossings become, and the more indispensable smugglers, and the cartels behind them, become.
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When legal pathways to immigration are closed, migrants don’t stop coming, they turn to smugglers. Smugglers must pay cartels to move people through their territory. The more aggressively the United States restricts legal entry and patrols traditional crossing routes, the more dangerous those crossings become, and the more indispensable smugglers, and the cartels behind them, become.