As long as there are jobs in the US that pay enough to make the risk worthwhile, compared to the work in Mexico, workers will come.

As long as there are American employers who are willing to maximize their profits by paying illegals to work for a fraction of what legal American labor can demand, workers will come.

The coyotes are underground capitalists -- no more, no less. They find the law inconvenient, so they ignore it. They look at their customers as marks, not clients; as commodities, not people. We see this all the time, with all kinds of con artists preying on gullible and ignorant (not necessarily unintelligent) people, except the results of the frauds are more often poverty than death. Death makes headlines.

As long as it's illegal, yet attractive, to cross the border looking for work, workers will come and coyotes will have customers.

When are we going to look at this problem for what it is, labor seeking its level, and deal with it above ground through international agreement? When people can travel in daylight with proper paperwork, the greenback passports will be superfluous and the coyotes will have to find another line of work.

Regards--
Mary Anne