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Why was Davey's father killed?


Why did the smugglers kill Davey's dad? I don't see what they got out of it if they'd already been paid to smuggle the man into the U.S.

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The guy who shot him said that they had already been paid and so that they wouldn't talk - probably about them (the smugglers). You see the same thing happening today where illegal immigrants get abandoned in the desert or set adrift at sea - essentially left to die.

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