How would they know a human (under narcotics) is in the big heavy box? Can they know? Are there scans performed on big cargo?
I assume for container ships it gets heavy checks because it’s usually going overseas, but what about packages sent within the same country? Is it just unnecessary to do it this way because cartels can move them by car themselves?
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I know this isn’t an answer to your question, but I want to help you understand there’s a big difference between People Smuggling and Human Trafficking.
What your referring to is more directly People Smuggling. There may also be Trafficking, but the two are separate.
If I pay the cartel to stick me in a container and ship me across the border, and I run off to live a new life in the US, they are People Smuggling. Smuggling is moving someone illegally across a border.
If I’m already in the US and I see a job offer on a farm and take it, but when I get there they take my documents so I can’t run, threaten to beat me if I don’t work, I’ve been Trafficked. Human Trafficking is coercively exploiting someone for a particular purpose – it’s modern slavery. [The UN has a nice infographic ](https://www.unodc.org/res/human-trafficking/2021tipcrime_html/ACT_infographic.jpg)
Trafficking doesn’t *have* to involve transport cross borders, but it often does. You can be trafficked by the cartel smuggling you across the border to force you to work as a domestic.
You can be trafficked within your own town by a “boyfriend” who prostitutes you for drug money.
The key difference is *exploitation*.
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