Altar, Sonora: The Business of Smuggling
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After leaving Altar, migrants face a variety of threats, like drug cartels, bandits, the environment and US Border Patrol.
Migrants flood into Altar, Sonora before making the dangerous journey across the Sonoran Desert and into the United States.
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Sacha Feinman, for the Pulitzer Center. Photo by David Rochkind
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David Rochkind (b.1980), formerly based in Mexico City, has covered issues ranging from human smuggling along the US-Mexico border to the impact of tuberculosis on communities across the world. His...
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Sacha Feinman is a freelance journalist based in New York City. He was born and raised in Southern Arizona, and specializes in Latin America.
Since graduating from Wesleyan University in 2005,...