Frozen Failure - Trek from Canada to US

[bjcheung77]

That's insane, a group of 11 Indian nationals tried to go from Canada to the US during a blizzard in freezing weather. 7 of them survived, a family of 4 perished and froze in the cold weather conditions... Amazing how they walked for 11 hours just to cross a border, the survivors were lucky enough to be saved by border patrol.

I just don't get it - The father is a teacher and isn't really in poverty, there are so many ways to be a "real" citizen, they have visitor visa, they can apply for visitor visa for the US, I mean, the risk/reward there isn't "worth it" for getting smuggled into the US.

Link: Identities of Indian family of four found frozen near Canada border confirmed (msn.com)