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Inside the lives of migrant smugglers

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    Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)
    Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)

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    Anthropologist Jason De Leon spent nearly seven years embedded with smugglers who move migrants across the Southern Border. What did he learn?

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    Jason De León, professor of anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. Executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project. Author of "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling."

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