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Illegal immigration to the USA

Each year about 300,000 people cross the California border illegally.
In 1997, 130 of them died, in September  6th 1998 the 107th dead immigrant was recorded.
This rise has been inoxerable since October 1994:
 the border patrols launched operations that should keep the immigrants
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from entering the US through central San Diego and San Isidro, the most popular crossings.
They wanted to achieve this aim by increasing the number of border guards and using military-style tactics: steel fences, sensors and stadium-type lights should deter the migrants.

But the only consequences were, that the risk of dying got higher and a new branch of organised crime:
There are „Pollero“ cartels.
 Polleros are guides for the people,who want to cross the border illegally. They have to pay up to 1,000$ !!!  Those cartels have the capacity to take 100people across the border every day. So they make a lot of money what means a lot of power to corrupt the authorities.
Of course the record breaking temperatures in 1998 didn’t make the risk of dying lower.
 The highest daytime temperatures in Imperial Valley, California, have averaged 44°C in the shade, but there is not very much shade in a desert...
However, not all people die by headstroke.
 There are also migrants who tried to get into California by swimming throug the irrigation canals (e.g. All-American irrigation canal) which are often very deep and fast-flowing. They just drowned.  Others didn’t survive high-speed chases by border guards.

But what about the Mexicans? What do they do to dissuade their people from illegally migration?
The Mexican foreign minister is running a campaign to highlight the risks by putting warning signs near main crossing points, but I wonder if signs will stop desperate people.
Many people say that as long as such big inequalities of incomes exist, there will be a non-stopping flow of migrants and this is probably right.

Angelika G.