“A guia, or guide, takes them to el otro lado, the other side. Once across, they sometimes have to stay in another stash house, although I don’t think Lily and Maria did. The guia takes them to the chofer—that’s usually a couple of guys with a van. But to get to the chofer is often the most dangerous part these days. The migrants usually have to walk in the desert for a long time. The chofer takes them to the repartidor, who takes them to a place where they can get somewhere else—like an airport, bus station. In between all that, of course, the migrants can die, the women can be r***d. They can also get stolen by other gangs. Maria and Lily never got as far as the chofer. The people we find in the desert rarely get that far.”
“That’s more complicated than I thought,” David said.
“In the
