Imagine you were in abject poverty in Central America or India or China and had an opportunity to flee for American opportunity. You take the law into your own hands and pay a smuggler. He agrees to ensure your passage to a safe house in the states where you will learn your ultimate fate, where you will seek to call home.

A family from China did this a few years ago, but never made it to the states because they all suffocated in the shipping container in which they were sealed, but the smuggler made his money. In the case of our southern border, where 80% of all crossings are illegal, law enforcement will share stories of smuggler fees as high as $10K per person. And what’s worse, once the smugglers lead their “cargoâ€