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Children face dangers as they try to cross desert into U.S.

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Subido el 29 de mayo de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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UNICEF correspondent Thomas Nybo reports from the border town of Altar, Mexico on the dangers facing those who try to cross into the U.S.

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You're watching UNICEF Television. 00:00:00
Hundreds of people die each year trying to illegally cross from Mexico into the United States. 00:00:03
Many of them are women and children who run out of water in the middle of the desert. 00:00:09
An hour and a half south of the border lies Altar, Mexico. 00:00:14
It's where most migrants find a smuggler, known as a coyote, to help them navigate the desert. 00:00:18
A never-ending stream of buses into Altar drops migrants at the town square. 00:00:24
They sit and wait to be approached by a coyote. 00:00:29
On the far side of the square, a line of vans waits to ferry migrants to the border, 00:00:33
where they will begin their dangerous three-day journey. 00:00:37
This 18-year-old, who we'll call Enrique, is paying a coyote $2,500, 00:00:40
which a relative in the United States is lending him. 00:00:46
Like many migrants, Enrique has grown tired of living on less than $3 a day 00:00:51
and is willing to face the dangers lurking in the desert. 00:00:56
Yes, I am afraid because I have been told that many people die in the desert, Enrique says, 00:01:00
but to try to be in the U.S., I will do my very best to get there. 00:01:05
With increased security on the border, 00:01:13
migrants are now trying to cross in more remote areas of the desert, 00:01:15
sometimes with only two gallons of water, not nearly enough. 00:01:19
Hundreds of thousands are caught by the authorities every year. 00:01:23
Most of the adults are simply dropped off back on the Mexican side of the border. 00:01:27
The children are sent to repatriation centers, 00:01:31
where they wait to be picked up by a relative. 00:01:34
UNICEF partner, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 00:01:37
works with the Mexican government to ensure that the children are safe 00:01:40
and given access to health and legal services. 00:01:44
They also discourage the children from attempting another crossing. 00:01:48
There are important dangers that children need to know about, he says. 00:01:54
It is possible for them to become the victims of thieves, rapists, sex traffickers, 00:01:58
and, in some cases, people who want to sell their organs. 00:02:04
The night before Enrique left Altar with a Coyote, 00:02:09
a journalist passed along his cell phone number, with instructions to call him. 00:02:12
Several days later, the phone rang. 00:02:18
Enrique was on a payphone at a gas station in a large U.S. city. 00:02:21
He said they traveled three days across the desert and they were robbed along the way, 00:02:25
but they made it out alive. 00:02:29
They were among the fortunate ones. 00:02:32
This is Thomas Naibo reporting for UNICEF in Altar, Mexico. 00:02:34
Unite for Children. 00:02:38
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Fecha:
29 de mayo de 2007 - 14:46
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UNICEF (United Nations International Chidren's Emergency Fund)
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02′ 43″
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4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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