Underworld Inc. - Season 1 (2015) (saison)
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Mexican cartels dominate an extremely lucrative industry exporting undocumented migrants and squeezing them for cash. Thousands of Central Americans head north to the US border, lured by hopes for a brighter future, but people smugglers, who are often linked to cartels, make it difficult to cross without their supervision, and for a price. At crossing points such as Nogales, Mexico, networks of "coyotes" are waiting to get them across – once the migrants fork over thousands of dollars per person. At first it seems like a regular business – local stores even supply camouflaged clothing and water bottles. But if the migrants can't pay a second round of "fees" once they cross the border, people smuggling turns into people trafficking in a heartbeat. And once in the traffickers' clutches, the migrants become human cargo, held for ransom. Those who can't pay may find themselves sold to work off the debt — men as laborers, women as prostitutes. We get the story from the inside, in the words of the migrants and cartel foot soldiers. (National Geographic)
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