Central American migrants take huge risks to reach the US Despite tougher controls on the US-Mexico border in recent years, hundreds of people still try their luck at crossing illegally every day – many of them Central Americans who have been smuggled up through Mexico via boat and cargo train. The journey is a long and risky one - much of the route is controlled by drug traffickers who rob, kidnap, rape and murder the migrants. A natural sound AFPTV report.Refile ahead of Obama’s visit to Mexico.