Craig Larrabee

In the past, smuggling organizations were mom-and-pop, now, they are organized and tied in with the cartels. So, you have a criminal organization who has no regard for the safety of the migrants. They are treated like commodities rather than people.

The organizations are getting more violent — they don’t care about the people, they don’t think of them as people. They think of them as commodities.

This sheds light on how dangerous human smuggling is, in the past, smuggling organizations were mom and pop.