 and at mainpublic.org. Maine Public was founded by the University of Maine System and Colby Bates and Bowdoin Colleges. For nearly seven years, anthropologist Jason DeLeon was embedded with smugglers. Their contraband? Migrants seeking to cross the southern border. They're really a symptom of this much bigger problem of migration, of capitalism. And, you know, at the end of the day, they're providing a service for people who really need it.