Illegal Dreams

They must travel abroad by hook or by crook; they bribe and corrupt and swim and stow and prostitute and forge but travel they must. These are illegal immigrants who escape frustration, war, hunger, poverty. They are prisoners in a cycle of mediocrity perpetuated by governments that don't perform. The drudgery at home is too much to bear. Lured by prospects of luxury and abundance only seen in movies, they land in Europe, America and elsewhere by whatever means