His father died when his mother was pregnant with him — she told him stories of how his father went off to war and never returned. Ibrahim went to his mother and asked her to buy him one. “This is when I thought, ‘I have to go to Saudi,’” Ibrahim said. They run houses along the way where migrants stay and provide transport from town to town in pickup trucks. Once in Saudi Arabia, the migrants call home to have payment wired to the smuggler.

Source: International New York Times February 14, 2020 05:15 UTC