How much is being an American worth?

Is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness worth paying someone $7000, being humiliated lower than domestic livestock or even dying for?   If you are already an American citizen and you're not sure what it's worth you should start by asking the 531 souls that were caught being smuggled in container trucks with conditions so deplorable that the humane society and Peta people would have run any business out of town on a rail tarred and feathered for treating animals so badly.  The smugglers need to be stowed in a shipping container and transported to the middle of the Sahara desert and released.  Leave them the container for shelter we're not inhumane.