This chapter examines the moral and political ambiguities embedded in the infrastructures of human mobility through Mexico. Drawing on ethnographic encounters with an NGO staff member, a migrant smuggler, and a researcher, it interrogates how legality and ethics diverge in the everyday governance of migration. Far from the binary depictions of “good” humanitarians and “bad” smugglers, these actors inhabit overlapping moral economies shaped by restrictive migration regimes and the commodification of movement. Through their practices—facilitating clandestine mobility, bending bureaucratic rules, or mediating access to protection—each engages in negotiated ethics: situated decisions that blur distinctions between care and complicity, advocacy and brokerage, legality and survival. By situating these vignettes within the wider literature on migration industries and neoliberal governance, the chapter argues that the line between exploitation and protection is not fixed but continuously produced through the state’s own regulation of movement. Ultimately, A Story of Us invites a reflexive rethinking of research, humanitarianism, and smuggling as interconnected practices within the same political economy of constrained mobility.