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...Beausset ’08.But De Beausset is not talking about the kind of Mexican crazy that happens when you mix margaritas in your mouth on the beach at 10 a.m.Instead, he’s referring to the last stop on his journey documenting the experience of South American migrant workers trying to make it to the United States. De Beausset is a native South American, fluent Spanish speaker, and an adventurer at heart. But towns like Altar will unnerve even the bravest among us. A JOURNEY THROUGH HELLWhen Hurricane Stan struck Guatemala last October, De Beausset decided to take...
...Iraq, that we should have signed the Kyoto treaty, that the Starr Report was, in part, the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children to die of thirst in American deserts is a moral transgression that will stain us forever...
...sophomore in Leverett House said he was mugged by a group of men, probably involved in smuggling migrant workers, in a Mexican city near the American border...
...This guy thought I was a migrant,” said De Beausset. “I didn’t know where the heck I was or where he was taking...
...brought him to what De Beausset described as a “migrant safe house” where migrants are usually brought overnight. There, coyotes—people whom the migrants pay to smuggle them across the Mexico-US border—will give the drivers a commission for bringing them customers...