Why Do Illegal Immigrants Pay Coyotes?

Everyday many illegal immigrants come to this country. According to the article Cargo, “700,000 new illegals enter and stay each year” (www.cairco.org). Many wonder how is that they come. Well the answer is that many immigrants pay coyotes to come to the U.S. They come in train, by boat, cars, semi-trucks, cross the desert, swim the rivers, and rent a green card/U.S. passport. “For undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. in South Texas, the multiday trek is the most perilous leg of a journey that starts with a payment (often $5,000 to $10,000, according to authorities) to coyotes in their home countries, who stash their clients at squalid border safe houses and shepherd them across the Rio Grande aboard inflatable rafts”(Altman). Smugglers or like illegal immigrants call them, coyotes are people that are trained to help you cross
The coyotes ask for half of the money before they cross any illegal immigrant. They rent houses throughout Mexico where illegal immigrants stay until coyotes are ready to cross them. Once they have crossed immigrants they meet up with a family member of the person that was crossed illegally to the U.S. to receive the other half of the money. "Smugglers do not properly educate people about the difficulty of crossing and dangers of the desert," (Medrano). Little do illegal immigrants know that some of these coyotes leave them at their own luck in the desert, even rape females that are trying to cross, and sometimes end up stealing their money. In the dessert many die of dehydration. With just a backpack full of clothes and one gallon of water to spare they walk in over 100 degrees. After walking for hours, their thirst increases, but the water decreases until their gallon of water is finished. Their lips start to chap and their thirst increases by the second, their legs get weaker because they have no water and they