Whether trustworthy or deceitful, traffickers are opportunistic profiteers. Increasingly they freelance for organised crime syndicates, which reinvest enormous profits into drugs, prostitution, racketeering, corruption and money laundering. But for asylum seekers there is seldom an alternative. That what little wealth they have vanishes into the syndicates' bank accounts is tragic. Yet the investment usually pays off.
Refugees arrive in the first world, sometimes exhausted and traumatised, but alive.
Europe weeps crocodile tears for their hardships and denounces their exploiter. In fact, Europe knows damn well that the trafficker's profits are the direct product of its own policies.