The ordeal
Alma Ciro said it took her more than a month to travel through Mexico to the U.S. border, often hungry and subjected to harassment from those who prey on immigrants.
They take money from people. It is always about money. They take the little money people have with them, she said.
Coming up from Guatemala through Mexico, Eddy said so many people demanded money that he arrived at the border with practically nothing.
In Mexico, they are always swindling you, but the worst part was crossing the river because I was afraid my little girl would drown, said Eddy.
Such stories are all too familiar to Hipolito Acosta, a former U.S. immigration special agent.
Your heart goes out to them, because you can only imagine what they have gone through, he said.
Acosta went through some hardships himself, going undercover as an immigrant to gather evidence against smugglers.
I have ridden in the back of a U-Haul [truck] with a group of Mexican illegal aliens that entered the country being smuggled by smugglers across the Rio Grande River and actually I almost drowned, he recalled.
Acosta said the recent influx of Central American immigrants is part of a much longer story.
Poverty and violence have been a condition in Central American countries for decades; it is nothing new, said Acosta.
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