it's 8:00 a.m. and I've driven to a hardware store in San Diego California where I've heard
that groups of illegal immigrants meet looking to find work like building painting or DIY you might
be able to see behind me there are at least ten Latin American males gathering outside
this hardware store there illegally here looking for work they're not only putting themselves in
danger but their employers are acting illegally too I have been coming here every day for around
16 years corruption prevails there's the problem with the cartels in Mexico right now the situation
is very difficult people are fleeing out of fear they don't have work families aren't safe so we
come to the u.s. in search of that safety because we know that everything is better controlled here
there were ten point seven million unauthorized immigrants in the u.s. in 2016 about half of them
were from Mexico although that number is slowly decreasing there are still places where Mexicans
visibly line the streets hunting for work not knowing whether today they'll get employment or
not not all migrants managed to get work many are still struggling to even get to the border this
guy wants to help hugo drops off water and food in places he knows migrants are trying to cross
how dangerous is this area for migrants are they putting their lives at risk reach their lives not
only in the winter because it's cold extreme temperatures here at the area but also in the
summer it gets up to 120 Fahrenheit in this area so if you weren't doing this would you find that
there would be more people sighing yes there is a danger that people who do water drops like the
ones you go regularly does in California could now be arrested in 2017 eight volunteers who worked
for the charity no more deaths who regularly dropped food and water along the border were
arrested and fined for littering humanitarian aid like this is seen by many as encouraging
migrants to make the dangerous crossing but Hugo thinks they'd come anyway what I know
is that most of them are forced to migrate you know they say that they don't want to leave they
didn't want to leave their their hometown their have their property they are doing it because
about they are tired of being on threat the fear of being arrested doesn't deter Hugo and
every month he's joined by teams of volunteers who drop water and food in the dry heart desert
according to ABC news more than 260 people have died this year trying to cross the border most
of them were from heat exposure and 53 of them were children I've just spotted this
clothing here what what is that he was probably from my mind it was orange sometimes they have
like two sweets pants or they just sing with clothes or jackets to avoid being
detected by the Border Patrol just then one of the Greek spots two men running over the
border seconds later a helicopter appears with just this minute seeing two men running down
over those hills obviously coming over from Mexico and now border security have arrived
so it looks like they've spotted them just five minutes later Border Patrol arrived
after a quick scramble down the hill we managed to get to where the officers have taken hold of the
migrants without any struggle the men are put into the trucks and taken away we have to stop filming
so we've just had to quickly leave the border where we saw team immigrants coming over
now we don't know what the future holds for these men it could be that they are granted
asylum in the US which means a safe place for them to stay it could mean that they
are deported back to Mexico or it could mean that they face imprisonment of up
to five years for criminal activity so if the wall was built with no gaps fire life
survival mood is better to die trying to risk in the life trying to make it for a
better living in a safer country than to die in X Accord Center America no that was not
gonna stop it it's gonna be more difficult to there but it doesn't mean it's gonna stop you