The number of people moving illegally is increasing every day. Most of them move from developing to developed countries. In many countries migration smuggling is done in a very organised manner. In the book “International migration”, the author Khalid Koser mentions that migration smuggling is a business for many people and I completely agree with the author. These so called agents charge huge amounts of money and they have links with people all over the world. Their business is like multi- national companies. They can smuggle people from anywhere in world to any other place. If they fail to do so, they are very difficult to be arrested and they people who were being smuggled lose their lives. The agents play havoc with the lives of these people.
When I was in India, I heard so many stories about people being smuggled from there to different parts of the world. Many of these smugglers were caught in many cases, but they bribed the police and are safe till today. Most of the times, they do not even tell people how they will be smuggled and people get caught in their plan either because of lack of awareness. From India, mostly young people are smuggled because many of them are unemployed or they simply think they can earn better life in some other country. Even though I have heard all these stories about migrant smuggling from India, I was really shocked to read the article written by Julie Lopez on migrants entering USA illegally through Guatemala. Here is a link to this article : http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2011/05/17/india-migrants-guatemala-provides-path-illegally-entering-united-states/
Furthermore, the film documentary “El Contrato” made me realize that a third world exists in a country like Canada. Before, I always used to think of Canada as a country that welcomes migrants with open arms. I cannot even imagine that the contract signed between Mexico and Canada gives almost no human rights to migrants . Even one of the workers mentions that slavery has not ended and in this case they are slaves. It is so sad and shocking that they were being called donkeys by one of the employers. I could not believe that a country like Canada can be so ignorant towards these migrant workers. How can they be sent home if they don’t work hard or they get sick? Why are they treated like machines? Margaret Ingratta(one of the green –house owner) says that she understand Mexican workers’ value, but she might understand their value as workers not as human beings or as family members. The growers have huge houses and their children don’t have to worry about anything, but the Mexican workers’ families have to suffer a lot just because they cannot get better jobs in their own country.
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