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Getting Here

Words to Understand coyotes people who help sneak others into the United States for a fee exploitation treating someone unfairly while benefiting from that person’s labor reunification bringing people who’ve been separated back together stereotype an oversimplified assumption about a person or group turbulence here, describes a situation that is uncertain and can change rapidly I t’s the dead of night in Jacumba Desert. Desperate people fleeing Mexico and points farther southhave entrusted their lives to the coyotajes ( coyotes ). Risking death from heat exposure, dehydration, or venomous bites from snakes and scor- pions, they cross a no-man’s land between Mexico and the United States in search of a better life in the north. All of us have heard this story. Perhaps we’ve seen it in films or on TV, or maybe we even know someone who made the journey. It’s a stereotype of illegal border

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