The smugglers are moving the groups laterally in Mexico and then crossing them in very desolate, remote places along the Southwest border. And in many cases, individuals will perish in the desert.

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Notably, during this era, the notion of illegal immigration did not conjure the same political and legal consequences that it would after 1965 [...] The southern border of the United States was not militarized or guarded in the manner it would become in the late twentieth century, and seasonal, uncapped migration from Mexico was an accepted and expected labor reality.

I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.

We're just moving along as quick as possible.