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...average Guatemalan, an average person in this world,” he says. Hoping to publicize the plight of ordinary Guatemalans, De Beausset hatched a plan to document the journey immigrants face from Guatemala into the United States. Getting to the U.S. would mean hiring a pricey smuggler, and weeks of jumping on moving trains, dodging the Mexican police, and avoiding the stream of muggers who prey on the vulnerable travelers.De Beausset attempted to tag along with a smuggler—known by locals as coyotes. However, for fear of participating in an illegal operation, he refused to pay them...
After insisting that he was a foreigner who did not need to pay a smuggler, De Beausset said he succeeded in convincing the men to take him back...
This notion was supported by evidence introduced during an alien-smuggling trial in 2003 involving Tyson Foods Inc., which describes itself as "the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork." In this secretly recorded conversation, a federal undercover agent posed as an alien smuggler who was taking an order from the manager of a chicken-processing plant in Monroe...
...poor one. "Migration is going up," says Ratha. "We had better not wish it away, because it's very much there to stay." On three continents, migrants and their families described how the transfers worked. Nine years ago, Cornelio Zamora left his home in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, paying a smuggler $2,500 to take him across the Rio Grande into the U.S. He had been unable to support his wife and four children on the $7 a day he earned as a bus driver. Working as a house painter in San Jose, California, Zamora, 48, now sends about $700 a month...
...around Hong Kong, the novel mainly offers a great deal of well-researched, soberly presented information about the politics, food, gambling, sailing ships, firearms and even telegraphy of that time and place. To be sure, Annie is a part-time smuggler and full-time freebooter. But he is more observer--mainly of himself--than active participant in the life around him. Two-thirds of the book drifts by before he gets into action--a typhoon, a hijacking at sea. David Thomson, the film historian and occasional novelist, edited the manuscript and supplies (from Cammell's notes) a last chapter...