Human traffickers are smuggling people by sea as well as by land

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The post informs that a veteran fisherman was imprisoned for a year in the U.S. for illegally transporting people on his boat. This fisherman knew the Pacific Ocean well, having traveled the high seas to catch snapper, sole, grouper, and other fish since he was 12 years old.

But for a few years now, his expeditions, as well as those of other veteran Mexican fishermen from Baja California, go well beyond fishing: Recruited by criminal human trafficking networks, they’re using their boats to transport a growing number of people who are trying to migrate to the U.S. by water.

The fisherman told the interviewer: “They caught me as easily as taking candy from a child because my engine broke down, I had 7 miles to go when it broke down and I had already seen drones, a frigate, and the Coast Guard. I turned off the engines and got them up and I waited for them to come for me,” he said, describing when he was caught in U.S. waters. “Since I was transporting 25 people, because of the number, they couldn’t give me six or eight months (in jail). They told me it was 13 months and one day, but they took two months off for good behavior.”

In the first seven months of the fiscal year 2022, according to the report, the Coast Guard intercepted more Haitians at sea than in any fiscal year since 1994. Nearly 2,000 Cubans at sea have also been recorded intercepted in the same period, more than any fiscal year since 2016, which shows the increase in migratory transit from the Caribbean.

Personal Opinion
Unfortunately, human trafficking is one of the most common ones in our contry and sadly one of the most impacful not only for the economy of US and the threaten of its security, but in addition, the people trying to cross had to pass to many other awful and devastating situations like physical and emotional abuse, rape, threats against self and family, passport theft, and in the worsts scenarios: death.

The increasing numbers of human trafficking are just alarming and according to a Migration Policy Institute report published in May, the U.S. Coast Guard detected migrants trying to enter or successfully entering the U.S. in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 14,500 times in the fiscal year 2021, though it and other authorities, such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection and foreign navies, made 5,000 interdictions.

This is a situation that is not only a estate vs estate fight, even though is important to guard de security, economics and try to improve the systems in each country so the people does not want to leave, but the human factor is something few people is aware of and is what it should be moving the nations towards better policies.

Source
- Newsroom, MDP. (July, 2022). Human traffickers are smuggling people by sea as well as by land. Baja California Post. Retrieved from: https://bajacaliforniapost.com/2022/07/14/human-traffickers-are-smuggling-people-by-sea-as-well-as-by-land/ 


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