MSNBC writes about the US Coast Guard’s plea to Cuban-Americans to stop paying for relatives to be smuggled into the United States.

In Miami, the U.S. Coast Guard is urging Cuban-American families to stop financing the dangerous business of smuggling people from Cuba to the United States.

So far, though, those pleas have fallen on deaf ears as the lucrative trade in human cargo continues to grow and more men, women and children die at sea. Based on recent reports, the Coast Guard believes as many as 65 people may have died in Cuban smuggling trips since Nov. 24.

The price to be smuggled into the United States from Cuba is reported to be between $8,000 to $10,000.