Thirty thousand dollars! If they can get that kind of cash from where they came from... What are they running from?
Cartels charge what the market can bear.
What's really corrupt is about the US Government? It doesn't 'accept' illegals who fly into New York City first class or other and book a room at the Ritz. If you want to break into our country YOU have to pay the cartels and walk across the river.
It was set up to fool the incredibly stupid bimbos of the US Press. Those bimbos would go down to the border to prove they were 'caring women' and lament these 'poor people' would RISK THEIR LIVES TO GET TO A FREE COUNTY'.
Instant shallow silly cover for bloodthirsty cartels selling American citizenship and the folks in DC they were paying off. It was these same MSM bimbos who were used to gush over 'Sanctuary Cities'... (and the 'homeless' - they provided the opening to the corrupt and evil 'homeless industry'...)
As someone who has relatives in law enforcement on/near the border, this is how that works-the mojado wannabes borrow it from los carteles-same as they have for decades-the cartel member they borrow it from takes everything they have-including kids/other relatives for hostages-as partial payment, then helps them get to the border-if they get across, they are taken by another cartel member who holds their loan and rents them out as slaves/indentured servants to businesses-legal or illegal that some cartel member owns/manages-to work for free. Men/boys go to ranches, farms, construction, food service, etc, etc.
Older women go to food service, domestic work while young women/girls are sold into prostitution. And BTW-that 30K loan never gets paid off-the borrower dies first-but probably not before getting a share of OUR tax money in the form of an EBT card, housing, etc...