Inside a Mexican cartel stash house holding migrants crossing into the U.S.
By Nigel Duara Jul 8, 2018
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Along Mexico’s border with the U.S., the last stops for migrants preparing to cross illegally are cartel-controlled stash houses just feet from the border fence.
They’re often a place where drugs and trafficked migrants are held before transportation across the border. They’re also a waypoint for Central American migrants who have paid their own way north.
In one stash house, operated by a man who told VICE News his name is Victor, migrants stay anywhere from a few days to weeks. They scale the border fence behind his house with a ladder, then wait for a train that runs along the border to slow down enough and they hang off the sides until it slows again near the University of Texas at El Paso campus.
One migrant, a 27-year-old pharmacy manager from Guatemala who did not want her name used, said she has been deported once, and was waiting at the stash house to make her second crossing attempt. She paid about $400 to be transported from Guatemala to Juarez. She says nothing, including President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, would deter her from trying to cross again.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/...ng-into-the-us
