To enter the United States, the strategies of the smugglers or coyotes are very similar to those that have existed for more than 20 years, although some have been perfected.The people who pay the most cross the border points with false documents and others do so hidden in trucks that transport various goods or in private cars, explained representatives of migrant houses and academics.At the same time, the "traditional" routes prevail by means of the river, the desert or even jumping part of the wall guided by the traffickers.The smugglers must pay drug trafficking groups that control the border cities or are they also part of the same gangs.Once the migrants manage to reach the border with the United States, it does not mean that the most difficult part is over, since they cannot cross if it is not "giving money to organized crime, and in this case, to those who are dedicated to human trafficking,” said Luis Oswaldo Valenzuela, coordinator of the Migration Affairs Program at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Torreón, Coahuila.Different fees are handled, and depending on what you pay is what you receive.“They can cross with false identification, in individual vehicles” and, if it is cheaper, “they would cross in these trailers with large containers that transport merchandise.This occurs with the collusion of Mexican authorities, of the three levels of government, depending on the area, and also of the United States.”Similarly, he detailed, there are people who jump the border wall, but "with a certain collusion of organized crime."Although they know that it is risky, some of them have mentioned "that they prefer to die that way than in their countries of origin."The fact that the northern border "is more armored" forces migrants to "surrender to the hands of organized crime, there is practically no other."Alberto Xicoténcatl, director of the Casa del Migrante de Saltillo, Coahuila, agreed that migrants say they even cross border bridges, but presenting false documentation.The migrants “arrive in trailers at the border, there they get off (this also happens with vans, in cars, in different types of transport), and that is where those who cross them are often people from the Mexican criminal gangs that control the border. , that's a fact".Once they have crossed, another transport awaits them that takes them to different cities, where they are concentrated in “houses with a large number of people inside, and that is where they are divided depending on where they are going.They are houses that in Mexico we would call security houses, because that is what organized crime calls them, but those same houses exist in the United States.”The smugglers are not isolated people, "they are related to cartels that are established in the main regions, and depending on where the crossing is, it is related to the cartel that predominates in the area," added Valenzuela.Delving into the role of safe houses in US territory, Gabriela Hernández, director of the Tochan shelter in Mexico City, reported that migrants say that after crossing they are held for a time in "ranches."What we know, she said, is that they have them working, "with much lower wages, and they are forced to be there because it is an area where they would have to walk as long to get to where there are more sources of work."They perform farm work, to sow and care for cattle, among others.US Embassy in Mexico regrets murder of Antonio de la Cruz