Reporter’s Notebook on the Journey to El Norte

 
Jason Beaubien on NPR has an interesting three part series on the journey of hundreds of thousands of migrants illegally cross from Mexico into the United States. Some of them have traveled thousands of miles to reach American soil. The journey, which was always perilous, has become even more dangerous as Mexican drug cartels strengthen their control over the smuggling, kidnapping and extortion of migrants.

Here, here, and here are the three installments.

As the series makes clear, immigrants seeking to come to the United States often are willing to risk their lives to journey north, a fact demonstrated once again by the reports of a group of immigrants from Mexico who were stranded on an island off the coast of California as their tried to journey by boat to the U.S.

KJ