The words: poverty (line 01); them (line 02); amid (line 03)...

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the text carefully and then answer the questions from 28 to 30 by choosing the correct alternative.

People seeking to escape poverty and dangerous conditions in their homelands are increasingly hiring human smugglers to help usher them across the U.S. border and evade capture by the Trump administration‘s immigration agents amid the president's immigration crackdown. It's common to see a rise in this alarming practice when a country enacts more aggressive immigration policies or threatens mass deportations.