Migrants Are Now Paying Up to $18,000 To Be Smuggled Into U.S. as Cartels Hike Fees: Report

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Migrants Are Now Paying Up to $18,000 To Be Smuggled Into U.S. as Cartels Hike Fees: Report

The surge in smuggling costs coincides with broader U.S. and Mexican efforts to dismantle transnational criminal networks

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The cooperation between the two countries has motivated a series of changes in the dynamics of the group in its main bastion “You can’t be calm, you can’t even sleep” is one of the phrases with which an alleged member of the Sinaloa Cartel narrated his feelings to The New York Times in the framework of the actions undertaken by Mexico and the United States to confront organized crime. A report published by journalists Natalie Kitroeff and Paulin…