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Sky News UK has done huge investigation - multiple videos:

18 Oct: Sky News UK: Pay $40k and risk brutal murder: Getting into US illegally
By Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent, and Tom Acres, news reporter
Sky News has been granted exclusive access to one such operation, which sees cartels use their expertise in transporting illegal drugs across the border to achieve the same results with people...
Traditionally, those seeking to cross the US-Mexico border are from South and Central America, but more and more are coming from as far afield as Pakistan, Afghanistan and even some African nations...
https://news.sky.com/story/pay-40k-and-risk-brutal-murder-getting-into-us-illegally-11526563

19 Oct: Sky News UK: ‘The town at the end of the universe’: Desperate migrants willing to risk everything in Tapachula
The Mexican town of Tapachula has become a hub for travelling migrants hoping to be smuggled into the US to start a new life.
By Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent, in Tapachula
Thousands every year, millions over time, have passed through and even contributed to this strange place. The residents are extraordinarily understanding.
Nobody is judged. They are passing through. They are going to America.
The travellers, who can afford it, meet their cartel gang handlers here. They have paid to be smuggled north through Mexico to the border with the US...
They go legal in Mexico to travel illegally to the US...

This is a business worth millions - if not billions - and the gangs and cartels that facilitate the movement north use the same routes that they developed over years to move drugs...
One of the biggest groups attempting this journey come from Asia. Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Afghans meet and eat in some of the now well known curry houses in the downtown district of Tapachula...
Africans hang out in hotels owned by “Papa Africa”. They are from Sudan, Ethiopia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
The cartel guides tell me they pay off all the criminal groups to get their cargo north...
I asked who those groups are...
“The federal police, local police, military, immigration, the cartels - the usual ones.”...
https://news.sky.com/story/the-town-at-the-end-of-the-universe-desperate-migrants-willing-to-risk-everything-in-tapachula-11528951