They promote smugglers, who pay them a retainer fee, and set up deals between refugees and smugglers.
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We sold them to militaries all over the world, to oil companies, construction companies, smugglers bringing American cigarettes into Italy. Smugglers?
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Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run As you enter the maintenance bay, you pass into the queue inside Ohnaka's Transport Solutions.
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Throughout Mexico, migrants who travel with smugglers are given keywords that indicate what smugglers they have traveled with — and by extension, what cartels have been paid off.
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"Human smugglers have repeatedly demonstrated that they have absolutely no regard for human life," Homan added, adding that authorities would "pursue these smugglers and bring them to justice."
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Smugglers would be the biggest beneficiaries because if you have no interior enforcement, once you get here most people don't show up for the hearing, the smugglers win.
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" These agents "detect, respond to, and interdict terrorists, drug smugglers and traffickers, human smugglers and traffickers, and other persons who may undermine the security of the United States.
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" Sanders pointed Fox to a line in this recent Los Angeles Times story about smugglers: "Robberies, rapes and assaults — perpetrated by smugglers, cartel members and Mexican immigration agents — are common.
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Shohlagar, 33, traveled to Libya with people smugglers in the hope of reaching Europe, but when he got there, the smugglers held him captive to extort money from his family.
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LONDON — Next time you wriggle into your budgie smugglers, you can do so safe in the knowledge that the phrase "budgie smugglers" has now been immortalised in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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"They (drug smugglers) are looking for bulk transport," LeNoir said.
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Girmay might be tortured by smugglers if he didn't pay.
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The main payment system for smugglers in Khartoum is hawala.
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I guess the police will arrest some of the smugglers.
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Many smugglers are said to be operating within the country.
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Human smugglers tend to use more rudimentary tunnels, he said.
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The Bangladesh Border Guards are busting more and more smugglers.
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The others had already been picked up by immigrant smugglers.
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Checkpoints have become more stringent, prompting smugglers to charge more.
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It also becomes more and more lucrative for the smugglers.
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Many of them, the documents were confiscated by the smugglers.
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Unemployed fishermen moonlight as smugglers, piloting boats across the Mediterranean.
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When migrants disobey their smugglers, the blowback can be fierce.
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Some prospective migrants raise the necessary smugglers' fees from relatives.
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Paying smugglers, he crossed mountains, dodging checkpoints and border guards.
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"It sends a message to the people smugglers," he said.
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But smugglers are adapting, scoping out new paths into Europe.
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This is allowing people smugglers to operate in relative impunity.
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We quickly realized that Macedonian smugglers were controlling the crossing.
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There is little to counter the information provided by smugglers.
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Later there were pirates, runaways, smugglers and the occasional aristocrat.
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" Haggis smugglers often complain of a single American "import ban.
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Others are held for ransom or sold back to smugglers.
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Then the smugglers said they would scout for police activity.
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Smugglers often pay their contacts in drugs to sell locally.
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Yet smugglers have also found ways of climbing the wall.
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Without such a system, smugglers won't be deterred, they said.
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There are cases in which smugglers have supposedly been helped.
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Four suspected drug smugglers were apprehended, according to the release.
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Both men were Mexican immigrants and suspected to be smugglers.
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They plan to pay smugglers to take them to Texas.
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That prohibitions, in other words, actually create the smugglers themselves.
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Appleby also suggested the human smugglers accompanying the migrants might have adapted to a crackdown by Mexican authorities in 2015, allowing the smugglers to elude capture and get more people to the U.S. border.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: The article explains the role drug smugglers are increasingly playing in human smuggling as well: The drug trafficking organizations charge smugglers to cross through their territory.
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Yemen is like a country of smugglers now - this is unacceptable.
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"It will be a smugglers' charter," he told BBC Radio Four.
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Illegal border crossers often pay "coyotes" (people smugglers) thousands of dollars .
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They want to identify the specific smugglers in Guatemala and Mexico.
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Mexican authorities also need to crack down on smugglers, he added.
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Bulgaria introduced tougher jail terms last year to deter refugee smugglers.
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People-smugglers may well be saviours to some of their clients.
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They then try to find smugglers to put them on boats.
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Yemen is like a country of smugglers now - this is unacceptable.
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Sometimes, they hold smugglers' fees in escrow until refugees reach Libya.
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Police allege the smugglers used multiple channels to move their money.
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But chasing drug smugglers wasn't the only thing keeping them busy.
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They've already paid a lot to the smugglers to get here.
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Blame it on more crowded boats, unscrupulous smugglers and bad weather.
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Most sailed from Libya in flimsy vessels operated by people smugglers.
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Smugglers rarely answer surveys, so the facts around them are slippery.
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But he was one of many unscrupulous smugglers operating in Turkey.
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But there are also informants in the smugglers' ranks, says Fariat.
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Maduro says smugglers are taking Venezuelan bolivar notes over to Colombia.
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Qusayr and its surroundings have long been a route for smugglers.
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Smugglers work in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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"I would support the death penalty for yaba smugglers," she said.
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So good, in fact, that Colombian drug smugglers want her dead.
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Most come on overcrowded smugglers&apos boats from Tunisia and Morocco.
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Drug smugglers are equipping themselves for Donald Trump's wall, it seems.
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No one European agency is responsible for fighting the people-smugglers.
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Coyotes are generally smugglers hired to bring people across the border.
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A single trip can make the smugglers more than $1 million.
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Smugglers often surveil our border officials in order to avoid them.
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But the money instead goes straight into the hands of smugglers.
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Drug smugglers and human traffickers also frequently traverse our unsecured border.
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So the smugglers become masters, the migrants and refugees become slaves.
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The cutter's crew also took the three suspected smugglers into custody.
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Have your investigations helped with the prosecution of poachers and smugglers?
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Workers and smugglers alike understand that terrorism is bad for business.
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We have reports of smugglers also being publicly executed by ISIL.
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"The police are afraid because the smugglers have guns," Mardini said.
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As Sheriff Estrada told me, smugglers don't like to court trouble.
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The smugglers are straining the capacity of rescue services to cope.
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Those are traffickers, those are smugglers and that is MS-13.
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"Smugglers keep digging them because the tunnels work," Mr. Shaw said.
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Many migrants turn to smugglers to take them over the borders.
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With more and more migrants carrying burners, certain smugglers see opportunity.
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Military leaders worried that smugglers would target them for speaking out.
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"More restrictive borders give so much power to smugglers" she said.
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The boy was from Mexico and had been abandoned by smugglers.
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The trip was organized by smugglers, who charged $2,000 per passenger.
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The drug trafficking organizations charge smugglers to cross through their territory.
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Additionally, undercover operations infiltrate suspected networks of opioid smugglers, officials said.
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He noted that 100 people smugglers had been convicted in 2019.
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China is sentencing fentanyl smugglers to death and life in prison.
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I have interviewed more than a dozen smugglers on three continents.
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They were hunting down some smugglers, or something along those lines.
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Surging north are migrants, truck drivers, shoppers, smugglers and numerous others.
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As their despair grows, so do the profits of human smugglers.
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The smugglers, however, would soon be embarking on their next run.
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So you are forcing people to go into the hands of smugglers.
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Three other smugglers involved in other crossings also were arrested, police announced.
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Smugglers have started to utilize the technology to move contraband across borders.
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They are helping these smugglers and these traffickers like nobody would believe.
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But Sanders did speak to Fox News, conflating the caravan with smugglers.
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In "Mom," at 9, Christy, Jill and Wendy become smugglers for Bonnie.
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If a human cargo does go down, the smugglers' losses are minimal.
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She said the kitchen in the camp was being run by smugglers.
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Yet small convoys of smugglers attempt the crossing several times a week.
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Many migrants have turned to smugglers to help them cross borders illegally.
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Here are some of the more eye-catching entries: budgie smugglers, n.
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Apparently, smugglers can make a killing, but I stay out of that.
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The Turkish government has yet to crack down on the people-smugglers.
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Smugglers may hide even more animals in boots and under car seats.
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The smugglers took all her brother's money but failed to secure passage.
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Some migrants tried unsuccessfully to get the attention of the smugglers outside.
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Smugglers moving mass quantities of it through tunnels can reap huge profits.
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Most sailed from lawless Libya in flimsy vessels operated by people smugglers.
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They've worked as "humble spies, smugglers, lookouts, decoys, and bait," Orlinsky says.
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This is where the traffickers and smugglers prey on people the most.
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"It is fighting illegal immigration and has arrested many smugglers", he said.
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Immigration agents have conducted many roundups of drug traffickers and human smugglers.
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Many paid smugglers to reach Serbia from Turkey via Macedonia or Bulgaria.
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That was the case in 2014, before smugglers began focusing on Greece.
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The smugglers lifted me from below, and my nephew pulled me up.
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Smugglers have become remarkably skilled at hiding contraband within vehicles and cargo.
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That's forced smugglers to start moving drugs through ocean freighters, experts say.
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Mr. Turnbull billed the lifetime ban as a stern message to smugglers.
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He did not offer specific examples of how smugglers might be stopped.
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They had been locked inside a train carriage for days by smugglers.
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This area is a haven for smugglers and cross-border criminal organizations.
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Smugglers often use rental cars, he said, in hopes of avoiding suspicion.
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"I have arrested two Turkish smugglers," he said in a Facebook post.
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See how smugglers and money launderers turn dirty money into pure gold.
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Suhair tried to dissuade her, fearing the dangers of sea and smugglers.
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The drivers are usually smugglers who are paid to escort the migrants.
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The book expands to encompass 1970s Turkey, Reyna's aunt and antiquities smugglers.
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Clearly people with anything to hide, such as terrorists, drug smugglers, etc.
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Investigations rattle Washington, Russia tackles its xenophobia and Hungary convicts human smugglers.
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He said those killed were smugglers and not part of the Taliban.
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Many men say they are beaten and even shot at by smugglers.
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More than four hundred smugglers had asked the council to represent them.
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This architecture even extends to underwater tunnels manned by scuba diving smugglers.
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Smugglers showed up in cars, and Wafa and the Afghans jumped in.
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Flaco says the train workers are often paid off by the smugglers.
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"It's really strange that smugglers would take off the engine," he said.
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Instead, the smugglers became their captors, demanding each migrant pay another $1,000.
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The smugglers were mostly interested in our money, and asked few questions.
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He was with a group of around 70 others led by smugglers.
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Despite the assurances provided by smugglers, migrants face enormous risks in the journey to the U.S. If there's a disagreement with the smugglers, the cartels may target the migrants for kidnapping and subject them to rape or human trafficking.
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According to the report, wealthier migrants have their own category of smugglers, known as "first class" smugglers, who organize travel between Sudan, Singapore and the Philippines, and can procure visas and travel to Europe for between $20,000 and $30,000.
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Would you accept a decline in the apprehension of drug smugglers as proof that fewer drugs are being smuggled across the border, or would you wonder whether the drug smugglers had found better ways to cross without being detected?
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While the Coast Guard, then a branch of the Department of Transportation, could chase smugglers into the Caribbean, Justice Department lawyers could rarely hold smugglers caught in the legal gray zone of international waters criminally liable in U.S. courts.
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That is bad news for smugglers, and for the poachers who supply them.
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The US and Mexico have often referred to caravan organizers as human smugglers.
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The women had all surrendered their nose studs to the smugglers, he added.
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Both trips require escapees to pay smugglers, traverse long distances, and bypass borders.
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Various NGOs have strongly denied all allegations they have colluded with people-smugglers.
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The collapse of the unauthorized labor influx incentivized smugglers to find new markets.
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U.S. border patrol agents were looking for two drug smugglers in the area.
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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini says the ships have become "taxis" for people smugglers.
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Clandestine airstrips etched into the jungle make the area a hub for smugglers.
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And for the truly desperate, smugglers offer another, premium service: a return journey.
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"This will send the strongest possible signal to the people smugglers," he said.
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Smugglers offer enticing group deals, such as one free crossing for every 10.
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Governments and law enforcement officials across Europe are trying to stop the smugglers.
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Italian investigators say smugglers use hawala transfers for 80 percent of their transactions.
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The local coast guard said smugglers had stolen the engine from their boat.
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Seven people smugglers from Turkey, Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq and Cyprus had been arrested.
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After all, the rectum has long been a favorite hiding spot for smugglers.
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The minister did not identify the smugglers but said an investigation was ongoing.
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Such a smugglers' charter would, the EU thinks, breach World Trade Organisation rules.
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Her uncle said the family paid local smugglers $800 to arrange Lamiya's escape.
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It accuses the NGOs of encouraging smugglers and facilitating the flow of migrants.
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The smugglers planned to cram another 150 to 200 people into the load.
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Some smugglers, researchers said, charge $400 to $500 to "insure" migrants against abductions.
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Photos of two suspected smugglers identified as "Weddi Issak" (left) and "Futsum" (right).
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Some smugglers prefer to haul cheaper liquor, but not because of the taxes.
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Friel said virtually all those crossing the border illegally are led by smugglers.
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Stemming the flow across the Aegean saves lives and dents the smugglers' profits.
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Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it?
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Forced to find another way, migrants and refugees often turn to people-smugglers.
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Correction: The term "chicken rancher" used to describe smugglers is "pollero" in Spanish.
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The occasional arrests of furnace workers and smugglers have barely dented the supply.
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It was a mythological world big enough for smugglers, bastards, and frontier violence.
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The number of people fleeing requires more patrols and more sanctions against smugglers.
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People should come to the United States with visas and not through smugglers.
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Some smugglers were arrested and some fled, according to Zuwara Mayor Hafed Bensassi.
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The smugglers also demanded ransom payments from Victory's family before eventually releasing him.
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If a driver gets arrested, smugglers simply move on to find a replacement.
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Pence wrote on Twitter that 55 alleged smugglers were captured during the mission.
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Are you picturing a group of Border Patrol agents pursuing smugglers over land?
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Often they travel in the hands of smugglers and under other dangerous circumstances.
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The official said the bill would only attract more undocumented immigrants and smugglers.
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We've got children of a tender age who've been assaulted by their smugglers.
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Though two smugglers were apprehended in that case, such thefts often go unchecked.
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The fencing was intended to help keep out drug smugglers and unauthorized migrants.
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Africans with darker skin are taunted and derided as "burned" by Libyan smugglers.
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Others have been abandoned by smugglers as they try to cross the border.
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But even the best-laid schemes of haggis smugglers can quickly go awry.
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Generally, the only information the smugglers knew was the next drop-off location.
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Kolfage has previously accused the IBWC, without evidence, of coordinating with human smugglers.
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Those who did not pay were often killed or sold to human smugglers.
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You've been stoned by drug smugglers, chased in cars, kicked by angry detainees.
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Some children, their trust in the authorities frayed, left the camp with smugglers.
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Known as coyotes, these smugglers used to work independently, or in small groups.
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Stopping the demand for the smugglers' services actually hits them in their pockets.
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Arrivals from Libya, where most people smugglers operate, were down almost 26 percent.
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They say people smugglers thrive there, capitalizing on people's desperation to get out.
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Weeks after his release, smugglers helped slip him across the border into Syria.
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Smugglers also dig cross-border tunnels, primarily to move large volumes of marijuana.
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The lure of the smugglers in Reynosa is not limited to Central Americans.
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And to some extent, enforcement jobs rely on creative smugglers for their existence.
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The government says turning boats back has discouraged smugglers and halted deaths at sea.
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European governments want to stop the migrants and break the grip of the smugglers.
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Today, there are a lot of soldiers, bandits, smugglers, and immigrants passing by here.
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What if smugglers start putting migrants on boats from Honduras to Belize, sidestepping Guatemala?
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The teams place hidden cameras in the areas most often used by drug smugglers.
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UK police have thrown drone smugglers in jail for several years after recent convictions.
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Penalties for smugglers and migrants are also light in Tunisia if you are caught.
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In Turkey it is not hard to find people-smugglers still plying their trade.
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Most Libyan smugglers sending migrants by sea toward Europe do so from western Libya.
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Three years later, four people smugglers were jailed for 25 years for their deaths.
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The bare room where Begum stayed was crammed with families indebted to the smugglers.
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It originates in dozens of countries, and moves via shifting networks of people-smugglers.
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The smugglers are paid by the Kurdistan Region of Iraq's Office of Kidnapped Affairs.
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We became not only possible "illegal aliens" or drug smugglers, but also possible terrorists.
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Eastwatch is smaller than Castle Black and mainly patrols the Wall from sea smugglers.
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Niger's interior minister said they had died of thirst after being abandoned by smugglers.
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Smugglers can sell it in Europe (or neighbouring Tunisia) at a huge mark-up.
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"It's drug smugglers," Ladd said as he stood just feet from the border fence.
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Assuming such problems can be overcome, authorities would still want ways to catch smugglers.
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The operations will lead to the prosecution of 55 alleged smugglers, according to Pence.
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Maybe next time smugglers will have more luck during winter in a puffy jacket.
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Smugglers in Mahra complain of a loss of business, as the newcomers crack down.
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After Mexico arrested some people-smugglers on April 1st, Mr Trump tweeted his gratitude.
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According to locals, the smugglers robbed and then threw the migrants into the water.
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Smugglers of pangolins, elephant tusks and rhino horn, meet your match: the sniffing rats.
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Marijuana smugglers are getting majorly creative — as border officers in Pharr, TX can attest.
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The agreement has had some effect: Turkish police targeting smugglers have made 280,2000 arrests.
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"Too many young people pay smugglers with the false hope of a better future."
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Irregular migration is considered a crime in Libya, though authorities often collude with smugglers.
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"Assaulting women, sexually abusing children, the smugglers are really not nice people," he said.
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Burners have made border crossing safer for migrants and business more efficient for smugglers.
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At least the smugglers didn't try to make fake plaster versions like those fruitcakes.
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But that may well be because smugglers have found novel ways to avoid detection.
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Smugglers carried them out on small boats to cargo ships, mostly bound for Malaysia.
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Each boatload of 230 people would earn the smugglers between $800,000 and $1 million.
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Other smugglers would bring welding torches and weld doors or areas to crawl through.
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The migrants were given pieces of colored tape to help smugglers identify their groups.
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Smugglers and a big number of irregular migrants or refugees will follow another way.
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I have to pay for my own personal security team, the farmers, smugglers—everyone.
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Two suspected smugglers from Croatia and Montenegro traveling with the group were also arrested.
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An additional 17,000 pounds of cocaine was jettisoned by smugglers fearful of being apprehended.
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Weapons smugglers also buy weapons in the arms bazaars to ship outside the country.
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Smugglers usually pack them into flimsy inflatable boats that often break down or sink.
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What is the protocol when you encounter armed drug smugglers driving on your land?
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Without hope and a chance at protection these refugees will increasingly turn to smugglers.
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Crackdown on smugglers Each year, tens of thousands of people pour across Libya's borders.
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"He claimed, "This landmark agreement will put the coyotes and smugglers out of business.
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Dozens of smugglers have been arrested in the region for profiting from the traffic.
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But due to high militarization in the conflicted state, smugglers shifted focus to Punjab.
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They pretended to call their relatives but talked, instead, to Eritrean smugglers in Tripoli.
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Smugglers are cramming migrants onto boats in Libya at a record pace this year.
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Allow prosecution of parents who pay smugglers to bring their children across the border.
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"The connections between organized crime and migrant smugglers are becoming tighter," Correa-Cabrera said.
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The smugglers know this, so they launch unseaworthy boats without enough fuel or food.
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Because these criminals, drug smugglers, gangs and traffickers do not stop at our border.
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How does the West want to fight terrorism when it doesn't target drug smugglers?
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It was initially thought to be an attack, perhaps by migrants or drug smugglers.
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One of the smugglers had called Mr. Nagayasu, offering to sell him baby otters.
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Where this largely impenetrable system ends, though, the Border Patrol explained, human smugglers begin.
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Today people are coming in the hands of smugglers and really risking their lives.
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NIELSEN: The kids are being used by pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers.
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"This is a victory against the business model of human smugglers," Mr. Michel said.
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The western desert has long been home to smugglers and militants of all stripes.
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Too many young people pay smugglers with the false hope of a better future.
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Parents are separated from their children, people are tortured by smugglers, and many die.
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The Europeans may also be pressed to penalize smugglers of Venezuelan gold into Europe.
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At the water's edge, armed Libyan smugglers pumped air into thirty-foot rubber dinghies.
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"We need to maintain distances from just about everybody"—governments, smugglers, and traffickers alike.
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The fact that Turkish smugglers were able to gather so many people on Aug.
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Human smugglers now charge $2,000 or more to get from Belgrade, Serbia, to Budapest.
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More recently, a dinghy carrying 143 people capsized after rival smugglers stole the engine.
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Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run features a full-sized Millennium Falcon outside of the queue.
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Starting late last year, smugglers ran express buses up through Mexico to meet demand.
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She has met with lawyers and smugglers and priests about reuniting with her daughter.
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"When Qaim was attacked we paid smugglers to get us to Syria," he said.
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They&aposre already on their way up here and the smugglers have already been paid so as soon as the smugglers get them here, they just want to dump them on us and we&aposve got to deal with what it is.
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"People smugglers and arms smugglers obviously ignore it and arm themselves as they wish, while the only ones who are blocked are the legitimate authorities," he said, adding that two Libyan naval boats were stuck in an Italian port because of sanctions.
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It is the smugglers who are the most common traffickers in drugs and humans and who sexually abuse the undocumented migrants they bring into the U.S. Drug smugglers have been using tunnels since 1989 when Mexico's notorious trafficker "El Chapo" pioneered the method.
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Until there is a legal decision on "our powers to apprehend suspected smugglers in Territorial Waters and who will prosecute any suspected smugglers detained there," the European forces (22 out of 28 EU nations are contributing) will stay out of Libyan waters.
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But the smugglers were armed and threatened to kill anyone who didn't get on board.
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The camp's population spiraled dangerously upward, and the new restrictions created a market for smugglers.
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However, smugglers often find a way to forge the necessary paperwork, the officer told CNN.
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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini says the charity-run ships have become "taxis" for people smugglers.
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Is no one else upset at how much Sriracha was wasted by these alleged smugglers?
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Still, it's far cheaper than being assaulted or falling into the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.
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Turnbull said the legislation is about sending a united and concerted message to people smugglers.
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They said the smugglers used force to stop survivors on the feeder boat rescuing others.
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He quickly spent the $8,000 he brought, mostly paying smugglers, and found himself almost broke.
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His name — along with the video — is being withheld to protect the smugglers from retaliation.
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They would arrive at the bus station, collect money at the bank and hire smugglers.
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The smugglers told me it would be like a dream, almost as easy as flying.
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Their report says that middlemen selling gold to the refineries are linked to Congolese smugglers.
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It is the place where migrants find smugglers to arrange their trip across the desert.
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Ioannou said each migrant paid smugglers up to $2,200 for a spot aboard the boat.
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Some children turn to smugglers, traffickers or dangerous informal routes, putting them at terrible risk.
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But on the other hand the people are really dependent on these smugglers as well.
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Seconds later, Kellie Osman, 21, from Sierra Leone, was shot by one of the smugglers.
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The result is migrants' suffering, extra cost to taxpayers and a bonanza for people-smugglers.
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Similarly, anecdotal reports indicate that smugglers are offering discounts for migrants who bring their children.
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In court on Wednesday, Roberge explained that her presence helped the drug smugglers blend in.
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The smugglers told Alan and Gyan that there would be no space for their wheelchairs.
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People-smugglers took them by boat to Thailand, from where they travelled overland to Malaysia.
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One woman said she sleeps in shifts to protect her younger siblings from people-smugglers.
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"This incident highlights the dangers faced by migrants at the hands of smugglers," Karisch said.
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Although the methods used by the smugglers aren't described, a picture emerges from the details.
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The impoverished former Soviet republic routinely reports incidents related to drug smugglers crossing the border.
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There, they were prey to huaqueros, poor relic-hunters who sold them on to smugglers.
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The two countries accuse the NGOs of aiding people smugglers — a charge the charities deny.
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When she arrived in Niger, she began to understand the scale of the smugglers' deceit.
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Some starved for weeks, while others gave everything they had to pay off people smugglers.
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"All of this has created a candy store for smugglers," a U.S. agent told me.
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Smugglers often cram passengers into unseaworthy vessels—without food, fuel, life jackets, or navigational tools.
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The idea behind the agreement is to smash the business model of the people-smugglers.
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Extracting "taxes" from people-smugglers is easy when you have guns and a homicidal reputation.
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Drug smugglers can get pretty creative when it comes to sneaking their products into countries.
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Migrants and their smugglers deliberately induce accidents to stop traffic so they can board trucks.
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Learn about the illegal trading route to Canada at Smugglers' Notch State Park in Vermont.
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Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão said he was certain Rodrigues was operating with drug smugglers.
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He says he's heard "a lot of stories" about the abuse carried out by smugglers.
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Clearly when children are safely in the United States they're not at risk of smugglers.
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The smugglers are trying to raise profits and reduce the risk of detection, he said.
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They probably were abandoned in the desert by people smugglers, authorities said at the time.
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"The best way to eradicate migrant smugglers is to take away their clientele," he said.
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Many entrusted their lives to smugglers who charge exorbitant prices to help them reach Europe.
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Of course Top of the World is not frequented by smugglers as it once was.
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Smugglers sometimes wrap migrants' shoes in scraps of fabric to try to obscure their footprints.
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He flew to Indonesia and paid smugglers to board a boat bound for Australian territory.
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Fleeing jihadists are already regrouping in remote areas, rearming with the help of desert smugglers.
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" Making her way west through northern Thrace, Kassabova encounters "a hub for … desperados and smugglers.
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Mr. Di Giacomo said smugglers must be held accountable for their role in the deaths.
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"The kids are being used by pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers," she replied.
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"Sometimes I feel as if we are the smugglers' delivery service," another M.S.F. staffer said.
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Many of them laugh at the wall, mentioning the unparalleled tunnel architecture of Mexican smugglers.
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The smugglers advised they buy energy drinks and cookies for their most formidable obstacle: Bulgaria.
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Undocumented migrants turn to criminal smugglers for help entering and leaving the country, for instance.
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The smugglers often recruit through Facebook, Craigslist and WhatsApp groups, or through word-of-mouth.
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When asked whether the border wall promised by President Trump will stop smugglers, he smiles.
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Finally, even difficult-to-transport stone sculptures became worth the while of thieves and smugglers.
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It could be a deer, a goat, or a gang of heavily armed drug smugglers.
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Smugglers of humans have adapted as well, using similar techniques (minus the T-shirt cannons).
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They've been accused of human trafficking, of making money by colluding with smugglers from Libya.
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Some later seek to flee again, putting their lives in the hands of people smugglers.
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I climbed into a cave once used by smugglers and pretended I was a pirate.
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That country is virtually lawless, giving smugglers plenty of opportunities to exploit migrants for profit.
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Migrant smugglers in Honduras say their business has dried up since Mr. Trump took office.
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And I definitely think its emboldening the smugglers to go to those who are waiting.
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Last month police killed two suspected smugglers in a gun fight in a nearby area.
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Smugglers and migrants often meet challenges posed by surveillance technology with decidedly low-tech solutions.
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"The kids are being used as pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers," she said.
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But ISIS members regularly joined the human tide, the smugglers said, and if they paid smugglers enough money, they could avoid the rudimentary security measures, such as checkpoints and screening camps, that the US and its allies had put in place to catch them.
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It takes several weeks for someone to come to the US from the Northern Triangle — not to mention the time it takes to save up to pay smugglers and coyotes — and smugglers and traffickers often spread misinformation to create fake demand for their services.
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"We don't know the smugglers well enough to know the details of their business," he said.
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Several of these smugglers have been detained by warring parties during this process, according to Adel.
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Check. Joins up with a band of smugglers and encounters a vast array of alien races?
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The land centers on a settlement called Black Spire Outpost inhabited by smugglers and bounty hunters.
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Human smugglers have been known to operate there, offering passage across the English Channel to Britain.
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Earlier in the interview, Flynn discussed Hezbollah activity with drug smugglers in South and Central America.
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Salvini calls them "taxis" for people-smugglers and says Italy should not be "Europe's refugee camp".
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"It's very clear that the cartels and smugglers know the weaknesses in our laws," McAleenan said.
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So would drug smugglers, who are pretty well versed in tunnelling under walls, whatever their beauty.
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"It's a jungle of police and smugglers out there, but the latter can deliver," he said.
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"They probably felt the heat coming and got rid of it," he said of the smugglers.
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There is also little, if any, risk at all for the FSB when hiring the smugglers.
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It's hard to say how many such small-time smugglers turned spies are still out there.
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The Saharan borders have until now been a playground for smugglers of drugs, arms and people.
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The passengers were all Iraqi Kurds, aside from the smugglers, who were believed to be Afghans.
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In interviews, some smugglers insisted they were helping only civilians escape to seek a better life.
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Recent refugees, in fact, say they only dealt with feeders and never negotiated directly with smugglers.
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Mr Ohr had no connection to the Russia probe; he specialises in gangs and drug smugglers.
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Many pay smugglers to help them reach South Africa, traveling thousands of miles packed into trucks.
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Trump has promised to build the border wall to keep out illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
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And anyway, trade data capture only one type of malfeasance (smugglers fly completely under the radar).
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A former minister of interior was accused of collusion with drug smugglers, a claim he denies.
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A special CNN report examines how Venezuela has become a major route for illegal drug smugglers.
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I managed to escape through Syria with the help of Turkmen smugglers, after paying them $1,000.
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Published in Britain as The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu; William Collins; £20 TOMBUT. Tenbuch. Tombouctou. Timbuktu.
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Reuters also analyzed social media networks to track the links between smugglers and their human cargo.
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Since then, Arab and Kurdish smugglers managed to free an average of 134 people a month.
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Indirectly, at least, the trade has helped to finance IS. Most of the smugglers get away.
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So "coyotes", as smugglers are called, have no need to sneak them into the United States.
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That&aposs an emergency, Laura, because right now we&aposve got a business model for smugglers.
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Some drug smugglers build complex narco-submarines that silently and effectively evade authorities in open waters.
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African migrants interviewed by the IOM have provided harrowing tales of smugglers capitalizing on their misfortunes.
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Others pay smugglers to get them across the 14 km (9 miles) of sea to Spain.
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The shooting, he added, appeared to be a "settling of scores" between rival bands of smugglers.
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Up to 2,500 people stay in the Grande-Synthe camp, known as a haven for smugglers.
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Unfortunately, they are also popular (and expensive) pets in China, which makes them attractive to smugglers.
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An Italian court has also suggested they collude with Libya-based smugglers, which the charities deny.
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Peter Roberts of the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank, has studied the smugglers' methods.
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Serbian authorities have arrested dozens of people smugglers but incidence of violence involving migrants are rare.
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As the video released Thursday demonstrates, the smugglers do a decent job of camouflaging their ships.
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Some worked for the smugglers, piloting boats filled with paying migrants in exchange for free passage.
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A physical barrier is unlikely to thwart drug smugglers, particularly the wily Sinaloa cartel, history shows.
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" Ferrara boasted that Mered had been "one of the four most important human smugglers in Africa.
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Oh, and that multibillion-dollar wall is now being cut open by smugglers with $100 saws.
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And even as he promises a wall along the Mexican border, smugglers are busy building tunnels.
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The Trevinos are old-school Nuevo Laredo smugglers and criminals with deep ties to the community.
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They often pay smugglers thousands of dollars to help them with the sea crossing to Greece.
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There are two main routes leading out of El Kef that smugglers use to transport goods.
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What is the cultural relevancy and legacy of the early large-scale marijuana smugglers like yourself?
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It's a good 123 miles north of la línea and is heavily used by smugglers today.
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But the staff at "Les Contrebandiers" (French for "The Smugglers") don't recognize the man they're serving.
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Illegal wildlife trade is rampant in Indonesia, despite efforts by authorities to crack down on smugglers.
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And fleeing jihadists are already regrouping in remote areas, rearming with the help of desert smugglers.
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This regulation "implies that only menstruating women are likely smugglers," Ms. Kory said in an interview.
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Afran joins a list of narco-smugglers who got caught and survived to tell the story.
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The greater the risk to smugglers in this chain, the more they can demand in payment.
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Being herded this way and that by coyotes — the smugglers he'd paid $5,000 in borrowed money.
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In Libya, the smugglers herd the Africans together, beat them, sometimes rape them and extort money.
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Finding smugglers among the hundreds of ships carrying out oil transfers at sea is almost impossible.
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"They're so busy prosecuting people trying to enter that the smugglers are going free," she said.
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The ride that is open, Smugglers Run, involves flying the Millennium Falcon in groups of six.
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With the help of smugglers, the men had crossed the Rio Grande a few days earlier.
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Police chases of smugglers' vehicles often end in tragedy — in deadly collisions, fatal shootings and rollovers.
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"Smugglers can see essentially where enforcement resources are going, and move someplace else," Mr. Stodder said.
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Smugglers also use tunnels, passenger trains and buses, drug mules and even drones and other aircraft.
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Mi-yeon tagged along when her mother fled China with the help of smugglers in 2014.
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For centuries, Coast Guard operations waited to arrest smugglers once they crossed into U.S. territorial waters.
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A parallel, and far more powerful, messaging campaign by smugglers is resonating by word of mouth.
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For many years, they have preferred to talk about "people smugglers" rather than asylum seekers themselves.
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Closing off lawful channels of humanitarian relief will also result in more people turning to smugglers.
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Banning flavored e-cigarettes will prompt more smuggling, enriching smugglers and the treasuries of bordering states.
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The smugglers took Wafa and the Afghans to the edge of a massive forest in Turkey.
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The smugglers moved them at night and drove to yet another forest to pass through, undetected.
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Police said they verified five crossings, and each one earned the smugglers an estimated 40,000 euros.
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For most of 2016 gold traded at a discount in India as smugglers undercut official importers.
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Smugglers operating between Venezuelan and Colombia are sneaking more and more Venezuelan cheese over the border.
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Others try to make their way to Malaysia by paying people smugglers for fake travel documents.
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But the Philippines' close proximity to China has made it a lucrative market for drug smugglers.
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Flaco grew up in a Nogales slum called Buenos Aires, which has produced generations of smugglers.
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This was captured in extraordinary footage from a Mexican TV crew, showing smugglers climbing into Arizona.
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The crew followed poachers on the hunt in Africa and traced smugglers en route to Asia.
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They weren't known smugglers, but rather agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Meanwhile, Chinese fentanyl smugglers are working with Mexican cartels on U.S. distribution and must be stopped.
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Their illegal trips were aided by smugglers and typically ended with the children in U.S. custody.
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He traveled first to Indonesia, where he paid smugglers to take him by boat to Australia.
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It accused Vietnamese officials of taking bribes from smugglers to allow the timber to appear legitimate.
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" Another senior EU official said: "This is not a 'natural' phenomenon, it's engineered by the smugglers.
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That grim outlook is leading some African migrants to hire smugglers or pay off Mexican officials.
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A record 181,000 made the journey last year, most on flimsy boats run by people-smugglers.
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Instead, smugglers organize them into larger groups in stash houses, often in cramped and dangerous conditions.
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He's helped organize a small network of underground smugglers to help the migrants pass into France.
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In Piraeus, migrants said some smugglers talked of stashing people in trucks destined for Italy or Northern Europe, raising the prospect of tragedies like an episode last year when 71 migrants suffocated in a truck found abandoned by smugglers in Austria near the border with Hungary.
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Hundreds of thousands migrated onward to Europe, embarking on dangerous sea routes at the mercy of smugglers.
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The Rebel Alliance is a scattered grouping of discontents, Imperial cast-offs, smugglers, and guns-for-hire.
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Estimated 100 people are missing from a smugglers' boat that capsized Wednesday off the coast of Libya.
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UNICEF said human smugglers who guide children along their journey use rape, violence and extortion en route.
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The impoverished former Soviet republic routinely reports incidents related to drug smugglers crossing its border with Afghanistan.
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But here, Homeland Security agents are battling smugglers -- not just above ground but below ground as well.
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That has not stopped smugglers, particularly Iranian producers who hide their dates under cartons of other fruit.
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Beyond the trade front, Beijing will also more vigorously prosecute fentanyl smugglers, the White House statement said.
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And in 113 because of the smugglers you can&apost house them in federal detention facilities together.
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Prosecutors also say Chait helped supply smugglers with packing material, and shipping wildlife products without declaring them.
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US Customs and Border Protection says it nabbed smugglers carrying nearly 200 finches in airports in 2018.
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Ahmed's bravado contradicts European politicians' claims that the deal with Turkey has broken the smugglers' business model.
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The smugglers also threatened the children and their families so they would continue to work, investigators said.
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Smugglers bring as much as 600,000 tonnes a year into the Philippines, based on unverified industry estimates.
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Smugglers hunkered down for a few weeks, according to people involved in the boat trade in Guiria.
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The accusations come from a person who is familiar with human smugglers, or coyotes, the affidavit says.
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Once again, without safe and regular options available to him, Khaled feels compelled to turn to smugglers.
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The boat's maximum capacity is seven people, but smugglers would likely cram more than 100 on board.
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The lands house two major attractions — Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run.
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Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run (Falcon from here on out) and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (Rise).
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It also comes during reports of Mexican smugglers using buses for quicker, safer transportation for Guatemalan migrants.
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"We were told to look out for drug smugglers who may well be wearing uniforms," Hales recalled.
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The U.S.-led NATO alliance has also agreed to help patrol the Aegean to tackle people smugglers.
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The two teenage survivors and four smugglers were fined and paid 100 Egyptian pounds apiece, or $11.
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Nor has Greece, where the survivors landed, or Egypt, from where the migrants and smugglers set sail.
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If a migrant is taken hostage, the insurance guarantees that smugglers will negotiate for the person's release.
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Often armed, these "gau rakshaks" — or "cow protectors" — patrol highways and country roads hunting for cattle smugglers.
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Now drug smugglers are trying to use lettuce to disguise their marijuana shipments into the United States.
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The man said once he arrived in San Antonio, he was supposed to pay his smugglers $183,218.
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In a statement issued Sunday, Homan condemned the "total indifference" the smugglers showed to their human cargo.
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EU border agency Frontex has also criticized the NGOs, saying they make it too easy for smugglers.
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Smugglers tell families that having children with them can make it easier to enter the United States.
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In addition, the EU runs a naval operation in the southern Mediterranean to rein in people smugglers.
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Small wonder that the government turns a blind eye to the smugglers who have kept Nepal afloat.
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"By closing CAM the administration pushed minors further into the hands of traffickers and smugglers," said Podkul.
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They said the man had been planning to go to Austria with the help of people-smugglers.
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Increased border enforcement has been linked to the rising use and cost of smugglers by undocumented migrants.
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Within weeks of the refugees' arrival in Aceh, smugglers started scouring the camps, offering passage to Malaysia.
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On the Turkish side, both the people-smugglers and their customers have all but disappeared, he adds.
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But analysts say smugglers have used the stricter enforcement measures as a marketing tool for their services.
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Mr. Mahmud said that when he and others tried to resist, the smugglers forced them to disembark.
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In interviews, four smugglers who did well a year ago said they had now quit the trade.
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But then smugglers discovered routes from the Turkish coastline to Greek islands such as Lesbos and Chios.
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Broadcasting from her kitchen, in Stockholm, she is in touch with hundreds of migrants, activists, and smugglers.
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He was waiting to meet up at night with smugglers who would help him across the waters.
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They were cheated by smugglers and fleeced by armed bandits, and they suffered long stretches of hunger.
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We do not know how many are held captive by smugglers or are in official detention centers.
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Agents frequently check culverts for bundles of marijuana, which are sometimes stashed for pickup by drug smugglers.
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Some 90 percent of arrivals began their voyage on smugglers' boats in Libya, European Union officials say.
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People who are in genuine need of protection should not risk their lives or depend on smugglers.
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That business continues on privately owned 200-ton ships belonging to Chinese smugglers based here, they said.
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Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the attorney general has about 11 open investigations into migrant smugglers.
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Even Sessions, whose reference to "smuggling children" lumped in parents with professional smugglers, didn't go that far.
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Successful smugglers need to build a good reputation among migrants in order to attract customers, he said.
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Smugglers use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our country.
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The smugglers transferred almost everyone onto the bigger boat, at which point it started taking in water.
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However, one former border chief said smugglers would likely eventually find a way around those as well.
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The issue became pressing, legally, during Prohibition, when smugglers began using privately owned cars to traffic hooch.
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Credendino calls that mission a success, saying his force has arrested 23 smugglers and destroyed 22 boats.
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Credendino calls that mission a success, saying his force has arrested 46 smugglers and destroyed 67 boats.
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The houses serve in a sense as billboards for smugglers, proof of money to be made abroad.
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They are fed up with poverty and violence, and people-smugglers have become adept at transporting them.
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The Nigerien government has impounded dozens of the pickups formerly used by smugglers at Agadez, they say.
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The girl — Noemi Álvarez Quillay — was sexually assaulted by smugglers at the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Smugglers in Ivory Coast hid the ivory in hollowed logs filled with wax and resealed with glue.
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Up to 100 people are often crammed into a single house, waiting for smugglers to move them.
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Those are traffickers, those are smugglers and that is MS-13, those are criminals, those are abusers.
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"The smugglers are building up their business model very quickly," warned Karoline Edtstadler, Austria's European affairs minister.
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The routes that migrants take to reach the United States border are most often determined by smugglers.
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What about trading convicted arms smugglers for American prisoners whom the U.S. government believes to be innocent?
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It created a balloon effect to send people elsewhere and pay smugglers more to get them through.
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Over time, Homeland Security officials say, smugglers quickly learn how the systems work and adjust their strategy.
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Thousands have fled, usually paying smugglers to take them to Persian Gulf countries in search of work.
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No longer were they a quasi-military organization tasked primarily with intercepting drug runners and chasing smugglers.
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The smugglers on his boat, which arrived on Thursday, took his dates and his bottle of water.
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Much international police work remains to be done to catch up with the smugglers, Italian officials said.
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Armed smugglers crammed them into a dinghy, prayed in the sand, and sent them out to sea.
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But all of it laid on not by the smugglers of course, but the aid organization MSF.
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In fact, human smugglers for the cartels use the surrender of family units as a diversionary tactic.
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We learned that a secret pipeline, including donors and smugglers, has helped more than 248 protesters escape.
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According to reports, the drugs were brought in through a network of smugglers from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
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How do you make a concrete wall see-through, so smugglers aren't invisible to the Border Patrol?
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Others paid smugglers thousands of dollars to lead them through the Sahara to Libya and then Europe.
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About 72 suspected traffickers and 167 migrant smugglers were arrested during the week-long operation last month.
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When you enter the queue for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, you'll pass a full-size Millennium Falcon.
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There have been incidences of smugglers attempting to import Zimbabwean ivory and rhino horn into North Korea.
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Some migrants prefer to sleep rough so they are able to contact smugglers more easily, he said.
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"They alleged that we are cow smugglers, but I directed my torch toward the horses," he said.
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Some of those stranded have resorted to paying smugglers and taking dangerous mountain passes to return home.
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Some smugglers also collect their fees after the defectors arrive in the South and start earning wages.
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"I believe that you can be tough on people smugglers without being weak on humanity," Albanese replied.
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Border Patrol and other law enforcement agents have encountered smugglers using ultralight aircraft to conduct drug drops.
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Still, there are some indications that smugglers are beginning to meet high-tech surveillance with equitable responses.
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Italian prosecutors have opened investigations into whether there is cooperation between NGOs and human traffickers, and Rome has just drafted a code of conduct for charities operating in the Mediterranean, banning them from contacting smugglers by phone or firing flares, which might function as a signal to the smugglers.
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The smugglers Musaab paid to make arrangements for the trip to Europe promised there would be life jackets.
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They pay $1 million in reparations to the farmers' families, grab some mules, and hit the smugglers' path.
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One major driver, she said: Smugglers are reportedly telling families they'll be released if they come with children.
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The moves are part of efforts to stop smugglers from operating out of the lawless, North African country.
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Voyages from Egypt are long, but smugglers mainly count on people being rescued once in international shipping lanes.
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But these low-level acts would be impossible to pull off without smugglers like Danbi taking larger risks.
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Whether the Democrats realize it or not, doing what they want to do actually helps the child smugglers.
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Approximately 100 suspected drug smugglers were apprehended at sea and turned over to federal authorities, said Vice Adm.
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Sometimes Israeli soldiers kill fishermen who venture too far; Israel says they pose a threat as potential smugglers.
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Smugglers are also facing opposition from mainstream sites where they have traditionally tried to list their illegal goods.
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This isn't the first time smugglers tried to use fake produce to bring drugs into the United States.
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Some visitors may opt to take a side job with some smugglers and have their own side mission.
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He told a man whose car he washed, who in turn put him in touch with people-smugglers.
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The eastern part of the border is much more tightly controlled by smugglers than the rest of it.
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Their governments have tightened visa requirements, increased deportations and beefed up coast-guard patrols to intercept smugglers' vessels.
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Smugglers often stuff these boats well beyond their 10-person capacity, locals familiar with the trade told Reuters.
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More children will be deported; parents who pay smugglers to bring their offspring to America will be prosecuted.
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Immigration advocates fear Mexico is not safe for migrants, who are regularly kidnapped by criminal gangs and smugglers.
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Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian dictator, rose to power in 1983, when Colombia's drug smugglers were making their billions.
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Used to making thousands, smugglers are unlikely to settle for meager profits from a farm stand, several said.
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Mexico has done little to stop people-smugglers from using legal bus companies to ferry them, for example.
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The syndicate consisted of more than 13,000 people, including smugglers, dealers, group administrators of social networks, it added.
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Nor are many in the camp keen to pay smugglers a few thousand euros to join the flotilla.
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Migrants are assigned numbers so that smugglers can keep track of who has paid and who has not.
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NATO will also monitor the Turkey-Syria land border for people-smugglers, said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
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One said he had found the razor wire does help with marijuana smugglers who go over the fence.
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The director said the children she met told "horrific" stories about their experiences at the hands of smugglers.
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He then passed them on to smugglers who left them in the Libyan desert without water or food.
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Writing for Book Smugglers, Lee has walked through some of the thinking behind the stories in the book.
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But the smugglers never carried out the threat, said Mohamed, because they decided they were outnumbered by migrants.
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China customs officials have taken down smugglers who used drones to carry iPhones from Hong Kong into Shenzhen.
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Last week, ICE began arresting parents who paid smugglers to escort their children to the U.S., NYT reports.
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Confining refugees to island camps not only immiserated them further, but bred a new lucrative market for smugglers.
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International drug smugglers have increasingly turned to Sri Lanka as a transit hub in Asia, authorities have said.
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This is certainly not the first time drug smugglers have gotten creative about how to hide their stashes.
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We couldn't imagine recreating the sleazy intergalactic dive bar filled with smugglers and bounty hunters any other way.
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But the agency lost track of more than 1,400 of the 2,000 guns they allowed smugglers to purchase.
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"All were victims of ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their fragile cargo," Durbin said.
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Canberra claims its stance has stopped the flow across the Pacific of dangerous boats run by people smugglers.
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Others have tried to escape deeper into Europe, sometimes putting their lives in the hands of human smugglers.
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Nearly 95,000 people reached Italy this year, embarking on smugglers' dinghies from the shores of the lawless Libya.
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Most people who illegally enter through the Southern border rely on "coyotes" or human smugglers to assist them.
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Singapore authorities on Monday destroyed 7.9 tonnes of illegal ivory seized from smugglers over the last two years.
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They had been "abandoned by callous smugglers," the CBP said, and many were subjected to triple-digit temperatures.
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"All were victims of ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their fragile cargo," Durbin said.
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Costa Rica cracked down on people-smugglers in November; Nicaragua repelled border-crossers with truncheons and tear gas.
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His goal was to reach San Antonio, where he was to pay his smugglers $2400,500 for the journey.
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She said she believed Masoud had been brought into Lebanon from Syria, a common route for baboon smugglers.
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When they succeed in nabbing any smugglers, contraband samples are sent to chemists to help determine the source.
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The smugglers were reportedly caught after they offered locals huge amounts of money to help them launch boats.
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They have entrusted themselves to gangs of smugglers and put themselves at risk of abuse and child labour.
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Since February the charities have been accused of colluding with people smugglers and attacked in the Italian media.
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The coalition naval forces at sea have caused smugglers to stop ship-to-ship transfers in 85033 instances.
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However, this increase is not mirrored by the reported use of smugglers among the apprehended undocumented migrant population.
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"Our commitment today is simply this: the people smugglers will not prevail over our sovereignty," he told parliament.
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But some smugglers also reportedly try to trick agents by making broken slats look like they're fully intact.
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Smugglers often keep people in the dark about where they are as a way of exerting total control.
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Once over the border and in the hands of people smugglers, a fresh nightmare begins for the migrants.
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Those who have money are continuing to turn to smugglers for passage to Germany or the Nordic countries.
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Recruiters for migrant smugglers cast a wide net, and US troops, often young and agreeable, are prime targets.
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Those who go back home, often having spent all their money on smugglers, face grinding poverty and violence.
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When I came to Israel, I mostly walked, or sometimes rode in the backs of the smugglers' cars.
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"Our role is to capture smugglers, pirates and terrorists ," said Abdirahman Mohamud, the head of the marine force.
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Some of the suspected smugglers were armed, while others carried "materials that couldn't be immediately identified," it reported.
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But the agency lost track of more than 1,400 of the 2,000 guns they allowed smugglers to buy.
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Campana said the people smuggling was not an organized operation with "independent and autonomous" smugglers at each stage.
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And naval forces already involved in rescues could provide cover, instead of doing the smugglers' work for them.
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The Iranian police still organize media events where bulldozers squash thousands of bottles and cans confiscated from smugglers.
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The Taliban have long profited from the opium trade by taxing and providing security for producers and smugglers.
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Turtle smugglers operated with impunity, at one point burning down a police post in protest of the ban.
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For centuries, Agadez has been an important way-stop for smugglers, migrants and camel caravans traversing the Sahara.
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Ms. Bullrich said Argentine investigators believe the weapons smugglers there were not directly linked to the Brazilian groups.
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To avoid detection, smugglers have been known to bounce ivory through decoy ports, or even forge official documentation.
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"Closed borders are smugglers' gold," said Lucy Carrigan, senior communications officer for the International Rescue Committee in Greece.
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Drug cartels, human smugglers and the elements pose deadly risks to anyone who comes across the border illegally.
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Further endangering their clients, smugglers cram as many people as they can onto boats to increase their profits.
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For some players, the dangers continued after they arrived because they were at the mercy of the smugglers.
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Agents said the boy was abandoned by smugglers, who fled back toward Mexico when the Border Patrol approached.
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Some are undocumented immigrants themselves, who run the houses for a discount on their own payments to smugglers.
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On Thursday, a Hungarian court convicted a group of smugglers for their roles in the trafficking and deaths.
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On previous trips, the smugglers had communicated with their passengers by cellphone, but this time, the communication failed.
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The New York Times tracked international ape smugglers from Congolese rain forests to the back streets of Bangkok.
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The smugglers knelt in the sand and prayed, then stood up and ordered the migrants to push off.
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It will only raise the cost of a product people want and the price that smugglers will charge.
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They were unable to go outside for about five days, as the smugglers price-gouged them for groceries.
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The administration has threatened to deport parents who send for their children or prosecute them for hiring smugglers.
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One compromise was to use aircraft, rather than ships, to monitor smugglers who supply Libya's two rival governments.
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One investigation found that a 12-year-old Ecuadorean girl had committed suicide after smugglers sexually assaulted her.
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The smugglers' aim was to resettle in Valenciennes, a French town near the Belgian border known for lace.
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It has "stopped the boats" and the Indonesian smugglers behind them: This is the essence of Australia's case.
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Smugglers from Mexico will dig tunnels under the wall or use drones to fly their contraband across it.
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Local people have been intimidated, making it that much more difficult to bring poachers and smugglers to justice.
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Veracruz and Tabasco lie on Mexico's Gulf Coast, an area long ravaged by drug smugglers and people traffickers.
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Defectors who have settled in the South often pay smugglers to help bring their relatives from the North.
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To minimize the risk of inspection, smugglers will try tactics like the rotting watermelons, which did not work.
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SAN ANTONIO — When the smugglers first closed the door of the truck's trailer, it was pitch black inside.
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For those able to afford it, and willing to accept the risk, finding smugglers in Reynosa is easy.
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TEXAS BLOODSeven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the BorderlandsBy Roger D. HodgeIllustrated.
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The trip meant crossing 10 countries by foot, bus and boat, dealing with human smugglers and corrupt police.
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Drug smugglers use West Africa as a transhipment point for cocaine en route from South America to Europe.
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Shortly after the ring of submersible smugglers seemed routed came an explosion of migrant traffic via Jet Skis.
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"It was not only greedy smugglers that encouraged it but the international art market as well," she said.
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Others are paying smugglers to spirit them to Turkey, with an eventual goal of returning home to Europe.
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Mustafa Sanalla also called on a European Union naval mission to combat smugglers by seizing their ships in the Mediterranean, said the United Nations should consider sanctioning smugglers, and urged Libya to reform massive subsidies that allow fuel to be sold for as little as 2-3 U.S. cents per liter.
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Albanian police said they have arrested a handful of people smugglers this year ferrying migrants in taxis or vans.
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Now that also would include human traffickers, drug smugglers and others who are exploiting that they&aposre travelling with.
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Swallowing packets of drugs is a common way that smugglers try to move illicit substances from country to country.
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I'm the only one in this room who's found dead aliens on a trail that were abandoned by smugglers.
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In his seven months at the hotspot, he had wasted about $212,22016 on smugglers in futile efforts to escape.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents arrested 18 human smugglers and 117 illegal immigrants in June.
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It was an attractive route for smugglers because the inherent danger of that region of space kept Imperials away.
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Aid groups deny any links to the smugglers, saying they are trying to save lives amid a human catastrophe.
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The sales pitch from smugglers, combined with Trump's statements and policies, has helped drive the migration surge, Leutert said.
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Prices remained stable however, suggesting that smugglers were able to replace the cocaine without any great problem, Handelsblatt reported.
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In Mexico, smugglers have often crammed migrants bound for the United States into tractor-trailers, sometimes in hidden compartments.
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Officials refuse to be drawn on whether the smugglers are simply enthusiastic holidaymakers, or part of a bigger racket.
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Lily says that throughout her travel, refugees and smugglers recognized phones as threats to the success of their journeys.
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Salvini has called the private rescue ships "taxis" for people-smugglers, saying Italy should not be "Europe's refugee camp".
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But Mr Turnbull says the new rule is needed to "send the strongest possible signal to the people-smugglers".
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It says seven Turkish and two Belarusian nationals who are thought to be migrant smugglers also were on board.
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The western desert region has long been for a route for smugglers and arms coming across Libya's porous border.
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Past administrations have typically restricted criminal proceedings to a narrower group: repeat immigration offenders, suspected smugglers and child-abusers.
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By his calculations, each boat trip of 600 people makes the smugglers between $800,000 and $1 million before costs.
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The party also issues permits allowing smugglers to import and export goods without detection at the port of Nacala.
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Weirdly enough, this isn't the first time smugglers have tried to use bananas to sneak coke into a country.
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Smugglers were using smaller, less seaworthy boats, and packing them with even more people than before, the IOM said.
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The Democrats riposted that the Socialists' leaders were in league with drug smugglers, and would tamper with the results.
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To sweeten the deal, smugglers often throw in hand grenades (there were 43 grenade incidents in Sweden last year).
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Then the smugglers sailed away, leaving behind, according to Muaz, at least 100 people still alive in the water.
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The smugglers could move up to 15,000 iPhones each night, so they managed to get things running pretty efficiently.
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He said smugglers had a spare wooden boat ready to take away the bodies and collect any abandoned luggage.
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Smugglers operate with impunity in Libya, which has been in turmoil since the 2011 overthrow of leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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Other people were human smugglers, drug traffickers and some of these minors -- 245, 245, 2100.00 -- some hard-core people.
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Verdict: The smugglers were wasting their time — van Dyck's non-portrait works aren't worth the canvas they're painted on.
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Smugglers attach a package of 10 phones to the cable with a carabiner, and the drone flies straight up.
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"Smugglers also take advantage of children and their families by extorting them with threats and false promises," they said.
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Sabratha's coastguard has 5003 members but just one car and a broken inflatable that was previously used by smugglers.
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Those who seek to come to Australia with people smugglers will not be admitted to Australia under any circumstances.
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They had helped her pay $16,000 to people smugglers who said they could get her safely there, Henriquez said.
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The smugglers involved in the San Antonio incident deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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Migrants are packed by smugglers onto flimsy rubber boats that struggle to make it to international waters before sinking.
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Would-be smugglers have used everything from breast implants, to bananas, to an Xbox to get the job done.
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Libya-based people smugglers have sent some 300,000 migrants in boats bound for Italy over the past two years.
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However, EU governments did want the mission to continue because they felt it had been effective in dissuading smugglers.
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We want to see flows stemmed as soon as possible, and the fight against smugglers [to be] more effective.
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Milan was the hub for the smugglers, who hailed from Egypt, Afghanistan, Sudan, Albania, Romania, North Africa and Italy.
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It's unclear whether all these shipments are connected or if a bunch of smugglers all had the same idea.
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On Twitter, the Panamanian attorney general's office said migrants were paying smugglers $1,500 and above to pass through Panama.
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Special delivery But there's another route that drug smugglers have also found to be effective: the US Postal Service.
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Most depart from Libya, where political chaos and a security vacuum have allowed people smugglers to act with impunity.
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China's scrap imports have tumbled this year as the country has ratcheted up bans and cracked down on smugglers.
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He blamed the "fake news" media for stirring up the controversy, saying it was aiding smugglers and human traffickers.
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They paid the smugglers $1,800 per passenger to take them to Italy, where they hoped to apply for asylum.
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We ate grass from the ground like sheep...Daesh had blocked the roads and smugglers wanted thousands of dollars.
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But in most cases they knew only smugglers' nicknames or first names, many of which are common in Eritrea.
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Experts say smugglers in Egypt mostly use old fishing vessels, stuffed far beyond capacity both below and above deck.
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Children rely on human smugglers, making them prone to exploitation including rape, forced labor, beatings and death, says UNICEF.
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Tens of thousands of the estimated 700,000 migrants in Libya suffer horrendously at the hands of unscrupulous people smugglers.
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The camp, dissected by Interstate 5 leading to Los Angeles, sits along a well-traversed route used by smugglers.
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"Checkpoints are placed strategically to cover routes that smugglers use to make their way into the interior," she continued.
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Coast Guard officials have pointed to narco subs as a sign of smugglers&apos ability to adapt to pressure.
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Belize's law-enforcement capacity is limited, making it an ideal transit country for smugglers traveling by air and sea.
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They use their cellphones to direct traffic, telling migrants and drug smugglers when to make a run for it.
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Smugglers have lowered their fares from $700 to $550 and continue to push Syrian refugees into undertaking the journey.
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Like Trump, he has warned of the threat of terrorists and drug smugglers crossing into the country from Mexico.
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He claimed he had been able to arrange her escape with smugglers and was supposed to be paid $35,000.
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Weeks later, with the help of smugglers hired by her family, she was spirited out of Islamic State territory.
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There are alternative routes into Europe, and some smugglers are expected to begin routing migrants through Libya to Italy.
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The smugglers began unloading migrants from the smaller boat onto the larger ship, the survivors told United Nations workers.
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"Smugglers are like the Hydra: You cut off one head and two new ones spring up," said Rear Adm.
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Some 113 Islamic State fighters were captured trying to escape Baghouz along with smugglers, the senior SDF commander said.
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Washington (CNN)A Texas congressman suggested in a Thursday hearing that human smugglers target immigrant children based on attractiveness.
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Officials believe that the drugs got loaded onto the boat near Guyana before the smugglers went off to Britain.
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That event eventually saw LEVELZ romp home with the Culture Clash title, beating Made in Manchester and Dub Smugglers.
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Drug smugglers recently filmed by a news team from "Hechos," a news show from the Mexican channel TV Azteca.
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The money went toward funds for food, bribes for the smugglers, and bribes for when he ran into police.
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The smugglers prefer migrants with family in the US. They know family members will respond when they demand money.
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He belonged to a ring of heroin smugglers, travelling a lot between North America and Asia during this time.
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The attackers suspected the two of being cow smugglers taking the animals, considered sacred by many Hindus, to slaughter.
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Increasingly, smugglers are relying on 18-wheelers, locking migrants in the trailers, often hidden behind the loads of cargo.
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The Washington Post cited unnamed U.S. officials in September saying Russian smugglers are keeping North Korea supplied with oil.
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Gangs and human smugglers, meanwhile, have used intimidation tactics to try and ferry migrants across the stretch of water.
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Related: Mexico's crackdown at its southern border, prompted by President Trump, has sown fear among migrants and their smugglers.
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Many Afghans pay people smugglers thousands of dollars to get them to Europe, where they try to claim asylum.
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The internal document also suggested delaying a request to buy 15 new Coastal Interceptor boats to catch drug smugglers.
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Others are paying smugglers to spirit them to Turkey, with an eventual goal of returning to their home countries.
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Warships from the United States, Britain and other Western countries patrol it for pirates, drug smugglers and arms traffickers.
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Indonesian authorities further arrested five smugglers on Java for allegedly trafficking komodo dragons along with bearcats, cockatoos, and cassowaries.
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The dinghies are prone to capsizing in rough seas, and the people smugglers do not give out life jackets.
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And it is stepping up prosecutions of adults who paid smugglers to bring unaccompanied kids to the United States.
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"Hong Kong is one of the last havens for smugglers to conduct their activities with impunity," Mr. Hui said.
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Homeland security officials said these efforts have led to the opening of hundreds of investigations of suspected opioid smugglers.
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Residents said they see daily advertisements by the smugglers, or coyotes, promising to get them to the United States.
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At the urging of American officials, the Guatemalan government has begun offering rewards to people who turn in smugglers.
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When smugglers learn the military is in the area, they often abandon migrants in the desert to escape arrest.
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Over the years, the tribal regions have remained lawless, providing a haven for militants, gun runners and drug smugglers.
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"Smugglers grabbed market share by offering discounts," said Surendra Mehta, the secretary of the India Bullion and Jewellers Association.
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Gun crimes are rare in Saudi Arabia, where strict Islamic law sees convicted killers and drug smugglers routinely executed.
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We slowed to a walk, and the travelers around us dispersed into the night, leaving us with our smugglers.
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The administration's next move focused on those who make a living off illegal immigration: human smugglers and child traffickers.
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The agents were experts: Their job was to catch cigarette smugglers, so they knew exactly how it was done.
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To do so, smugglers are reportedly using a reciprocating saw that can be bought for as little as $100.
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He chased poachers and smugglers, rescued shipwrecked sailors, delivered mail and medicine, and transported missionaries, criminals, scientists and VIPs.
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Human smugglers often cram as many as 100 migrants onto the unsafe dinghies before pushing them out to sea.
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Some of the smugglers fled, but two were wounded - both Rohingya themselves - and died on the way to hospital.
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It said that smugglers had been bribing inspectors and faking quarantine certificates to smuggle the animals across provincial borders.
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The relics date to different eras, suggesting that the smugglers were well organized, according to museum curator Ahmed Samir.
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Crossing the border typically cost migrants $8003,000 to $10,000 for smugglers who offer safe passage through drug cartel territory.
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The Millennium Falcon is the centerpiece of Smugglers Run, the attraction that opened at Galaxy's Edge earlier this year.
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Seized animals are sometimes needed as evidence to prosecute smugglers, which can lead to further delays in their return.
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For the smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border, though, it doesn't really matter who's in power in Mexico City.
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He introduced Brand to the informants, police officers, and smugglers who would become the roots of his informant organization.
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The vessel is the artist's reconstruction of the overcrowded boats used by smugglers to bring refugees onto European shores.
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The smugglers' trial moved uncharacteristically quickly in a country where court cases can take months or years to conclude.
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Though slavery was against the law, the demand for free labor remained high, which prompted smugglers to make illegal trips.
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Under that law, smugglers can face the possibility of the death penalty if any of the people they're transporting die.
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Others also left for Iraq with the help of smugglers, then began military training with the Rojava Brigade in Iraq.
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He moved from Phoenix to the border town of Sasabe and now spends his days tracking migrants and drug smugglers.
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"The greater capacity of the Libyan coastguard means smugglers are resorting to more dangerous routes to evade detection," he said.
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The mere presence of a Western warship prompted some smugglers to quickly turn and flee the area, Canadian media reported.
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Trump has accused smugglers of coaching asylum seekers to say the "magic words" that will allow them into the country.
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Until then, the young female smugglers of North Korea will continue to bring in the goods that young people want.
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Land mines dot no-man's-land, and smugglers are said to drive their donkeys in advance to test the route.
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Smugglers also wield enormous power, determining when and where migrants move and sleep, and if their debt has been repaid.
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Since these systems don't carry electrical signals, they're also less detectable by smugglers than many other types of sensors. Rep.
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Instead they say smugglers operating along the sea routes are employing dangerous methods to get more refugees onto the water.
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That makes it home not just to traditional good guys and bad guys, but smugglers and bounty hunters, as well.
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The smugglers, in turn, put the passports in packages and mailed them to final destination addresses in the United States.
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Another report from the UK House of Lords in July 2017 concluded that Sophia had missed its target of smugglers.
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Swartz said he shot the 16-year-old while defending himself from drug smugglers who were throwing rocks at him.
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Main attraction Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, a replica of the Star Wars franchise's famous spaceship, will open in phase one.
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Disney World's version of Galaxy's Edge doesn't open until August 29th, and when it does it will feature Smugglers Run.
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He has also managed to send one of his five sons to Australia, paying smugglers $16,000 to get him there.
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"All we need is the green light, and the next day" smugglers will abandon the air bridge, says Mr Loayza.
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But he said Egypt had just passed new laws against illegal migration and was determined to take action against smugglers.
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The drones, piloted from the ground, search for drug smugglers and undocumented immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States.
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To stop the wall after 20 miles, allowing drug smugglers to cross where it ends, would be "ridiculous," he said.
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That same month, VICE News visited another camp at Teteghem, near Dunkirk, which was reportedly being controlled by people smugglers.
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Smugglers avoid the main road, which is so infested with bandits that traders move in convoys, escorted by the army.
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People involved in the business said the broker typically kept $200 of that, passing on the rest to the smugglers.
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Sandhool and his fellow travelers were handed to another group of Egyptian smugglers who would earn around $220 a head.
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A few weeks earlier, Ahmed says, border guards fired on him and some of his fellow smugglers; two men died.
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Five alleged smugglers were seized aboard the vessel and were handed over for prosecution by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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China banned the sale of ivory within its borders in 2017, but conservationists say it has failed to deter smugglers.
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The smugglers closed the door and the interior of the trailer was pitch black and it was already hot inside.
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Saida says she and her husband, a fighter named Yassine, paid smugglers $6,000 to shepherd them out of the city.
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With few other ways to get by, the clampdown has left smugglers like Abalde Aboubakar desperate to make ends meet.
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Smugglers are thriving in the power vacuum left after the overthrow of former Libyan strong-man Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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Turkish officials say authorities in 2015 detained more than 4,400 smugglers who organize the often-dangerous crossings in frail boats.
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Australia broke international law by bribing smugglers to turn boats carrying refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar away from their shores.
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People smugglers have threatened border guards and the numbers of people crossing borders en masse have led to violent clashes.
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Chihuahua's long border with Texas and New Mexico is a primary entry point for drug smugglers entering the United States.
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Such policies would push more people into the hands of unscrupulous smugglers, who will take people on more dangerous routes.
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Given the nexus between human smuggling and human trafficking, legislators should focus on reducing undocumented migrants' reliance on human smugglers.
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As regards the Central Mediterranean Route, efforts to stop smugglers operating out of Libya or elsewhere should be further intensified.
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"I haven't heard that," Trump told the Post on Saturday after reporters asked him about smugglers cutting through the wall.
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Since smugglers usually cut through one of the bollards, it's easy for agents to replace the parts that get damaged.
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Snakeheads, as the smugglers are known, beat men and sexually assault women, aid groups, lawyers and the migrants themselves say.
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Once out of ISIS's hands, Yazidi captives fall into the hands of smugglers, not all of whom are well-intentioned.
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Taking advantage of calm conditions, smugglers in Libya send out more and more migrants toward Italy, often on unseaworthy vessels.
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Along the Iraqi border, the king told us, Jordanian troops have discovered a tunnel for smugglers of weaponry and drugs.
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"Children lose trust in the authorities and that is when they become vulnerable to smugglers and human traffickers," Prashar said.
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Lawless Libya provides fertile ground for the smugglers, who often work with militias that hold real power on the ground.
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Their boat can hold around 30 people, they say, although other smugglers sometimes cram as many as 50 on board.
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As we have said before, the journey north is dangerous and puts individuals in the hands of smugglers and traffickers.
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But the park only has one ride so far — the "Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run," where guests pilot their own ships.
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"Narco subs" have become increasingly popular with smugglers, as they can carry huge drug loads and are hard to detect.
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Schultz and other Coast Guard officials pointed to narco subs as a sign of smugglers' ability to adapt to pressure.
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Namibia is home to the largest black rhino population, at more than 2,000, whose horn is sought after by smugglers.
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There is no code of honor among smugglers, no Mafia-like hierarchy to disrupt—only money, movement, risk, and death.
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At the same time, NATO is expanding its efforts to stop the smugglers who make many of those journeys possible.
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Why it matters: The security vulnerability could allow criminals — like human traffickers and drug smugglers — to enter the U.S. undetected.
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While conducting his research, Campana also analyzed wiretapped telephone conversations, testimonies, interviews with police task force members, and smugglers' backgrounds.
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Smugglers often hurl rocks at agents to distract them while drugs are brought into the United States at another spot.
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Left to die by people smugglers in the Sahara desert, he was discovered by nomadic Arabs who saved his life.
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And Japanese authorities say they have continued to track illicit ship-to-ship transfers of fuel by North Korean smugglers.
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During the two years before that, the police arrested three smugglers and seized more than 120 live turtles, records show.
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As many as 4,000 Tunisians have departed with migrant smugglers this year alone, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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Smugglers are often held in detention centers or forced to write confessions in newspapers or broadcast them on the radio.
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Ali explains how smugglers head to Pakistan through the mountains using back roads, to pick up morphine, heroin, or opium.
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Once in China, defectors must rely on smugglers who charge extortionate rates to evade Chinese security and North Korean agents.
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The commander preferred to call these officers "decoys," arguing they use similar tactics to infiltrate drug smugglers and criminal gangs.
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Mr. McAleenan, a career law enforcement official, said the human smugglers take advantage of vulnerable Central Americans seeking better lives.
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Libya is a major crossroads for tens of thousands of Africans seeking ways to reach Europe, often through unscrupulous smugglers.
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Yet that is often the best chance that officials have to catch smugglers as they move migrants among stash houses.
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And officials said that some of the money paid to smugglers found its way into the hands of drug cartels.
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After the families paid, the group was then turned over to other smugglers, who also demanded money for their release.
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The Coast Guard was conscripted as the agency empowered to seek out suspected smugglers and bring them to American courts.
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Libyan smugglers call them "burned," a racial epithet sometimes used in the country for people whose skin color is black.
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" Ms. Nielsen maintains that "those are traffickers, those are smugglers, that is MS-13, those are criminals, those are abusers.
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The politicians warn that people smugglers are watching and waiting for a moment of weakness by Australia to resume operations.
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Syrians shared information, some joking about the Turkish facilitation, suggesting they should publish the telephone numbers of people smugglers, too.
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Smugglers frequently come ashore in that area due to its proximity to the Bahamas, where ventures frequently originate, Daniel said.
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Now he is trying to return by boat, having saved half of the $210 he needs to pay the smugglers.
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Smugglers and traffickers and those who lie or commit fraud will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Once Border Patrol is engaged in one area, the smugglers will use that opportunity to run drugs onto American soil.
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Italy now provides the dysfunctional Libyan military — which works with militias and human smugglers — with patrol boats, training and intelligence.
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She paid the smugglers $313,000 after arriving in the South and getting cash support from the government, Mr. Kim said.
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The informants helped the bureau's investigations into tobacco smugglers, who move cigarettes across state or national borders to avoid taxes.
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This was partly a result of marketing by smugglers, who profited from the popularity of a difficult-to-access destination.
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While marijuana does less harm, the smugglers also bring heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth to America, which kill many.
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Turkey has also made it harder for smugglers to work, detaining men like Abu Mohammed for several weeks last year.
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Smugglers and cartels are "constantly modifying their approach to continue to make money and exploit migrants from everywhere," said Morgan.
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Crossing the Mexico-United States border has become increasingly difficult, migrants say, especially with rising smugglers' fees and tougher enforcement.
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Despite the overall decrease in the number of migrants, the smugglers are straining the capacity of rescue services to cope.
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It's possible to argue that this abets smuggling — at least, it creates a ready supply for smugglers to prey on.
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TEXAS BLOOD: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands, by Roger D. Hodge.
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At first, the smugglers had her cook for the other migrants who had recently crossed illegally into the United States.
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"If you build a 20-foot-fence, we've seen smugglers just come back with a 21-foot-ladder," Moran said.
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Outside of government-designated zones for marine fishing, fish smugglers hide large pens where they drop and store tropical fish.
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Yet the tactical position Border Patrol, a subset of CBP, assumes may not be against individual migrants or even smugglers.
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Albanian smugglers have established direct supply lines via South America and Europe's big cocaine receiving ports in Belgium and Holland.
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After Libya, where migrants face imprisonment and torture by smugglers and militias, there is the perilous journey across the sea.
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The San Diego fence didn't necessarily cause smugglers to build tunnels instead, but it certainly wasn't enough to prevent their construction.
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Members of the guard then jump on the submarine-like boat, eventually forcing the top open to reveal the smugglers inside.
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Since the beginning of this year, they have prevented over 5,000 illegal border crossings and charged over 350 suspected people smugglers.
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She said they didn&apost use smugglers, though many Central Americans do and find themselves paying off the fees for years.
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Humanitarian organizations working in the camp had reported that smugglers and people bearing weapons had been in the facility, Amnesty said.
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Operation Sophia was launched in June 2015 to counter migrant smugglers in the central Mediterranean and reduce arrivals to European shores.
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This is just the latest example of drug smugglers' ingenuity, or more accurately, the ingenuity of the authorities who caught them.
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Some smugglers offer cheaper rates, but that means traveling in the back of trailers, which is more dangerous and takes longer.
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Days after they arrived in the camp, he and seven of his friends were threatened by a group of people smugglers.
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The lobster thing might be old news among fishermen, but there are a few smugglers who'd do well to take notes.
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Underground, the army is still discovering a network of tunnels used by eastern Ghouta's fighters and smugglers during years of siege.
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As most war-torn places are some distance from Europe, asylum-seekers must endure dangerous journeys, and rapacious people-smugglers thrive.
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Drug smugglers have gotten pretty savvy these days in terms of engineering complex methods to get drugs into the United States.
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Italy will provide money to try to persuade the GNA to stop smugglers sending thousands of people out on flimsy boats.
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Kelly credited Trump for the decline and added smugglers are charging much more for border crossers, causing demand to taper off.
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Okoro arrived in Italy last June after paying smugglers 1,500 Libyan dinars ($1,073) for the risky passage in a rubber dinghy.
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The refugees coming from Hadalat describe a nine-mile journey via Bedouin smugglers from government-held Sweida province to the berm.
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But smugglers have not been the only ones to benefit from the migrant boom, said Sadou Soloke, the governor of Agadez.
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That activity began to slow when Niger, under EU pressure, started arresting smugglers and posted soldiers across the desert in 2016.
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He spends his days earning what little cash he can to pay smugglers who sneak migrants across the border into Croatia.
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They're often targets of abuse and sexual assault at the hands of smugglers, as well as when they're in U.S. custody.
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He noted that flooding, erosion, and tool-wielding smugglers have all knocked down the walls at various locations, requiring expensive repairs.
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Tesfom, conscripted right out of high school, deserted, borrowed 30,000 nakfa (nearly $1,900) and paid smugglers to get him to Sudan.
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On the edge of the desert, the refugees were handed over to Libyan smugglers, Girmay told his brother on the phone.
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Some smugglers give refugees smartphones with apps like Viber, Skype and WhatsApp so they can get in touch with their families.
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"They should stop smugglers telling people there's an El Dorado waiting for them in Europe when it's a lie," he added.
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"Smugglers are treating these illegal aliens as if they are cargo, not human beings," Border Patrol Acting Chief Carla Provost said.
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Almost 800 suspected "scafisti" or "boat smugglers" were arrested in the 12 months to July, the Interior Ministry said in August.
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The commission also wants new places for legal immigrants, to encourage them to apply for visas rather than turning to smugglers.
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Every year, tens of thousands of people from Africa and the Middle East try to reach Europe in smugglers&apos boats.
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The offer of having separate connectivity might find some use among people who use two separate phones like... I dunno, smugglers?
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Shenzhen officials said they usually find smugglers with less than a dozen or so iPhones, but sometimes as many as 80.
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Children as bomb-makers Dileen (not her real name) is one of those rescued by Shrem and his team of smugglers.
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The route between the two countries is dangerous, with some smugglers happy to leave migrants to die alone in the desert.
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Before Gallardo, the marijuana smugglers of Mexico operated in distinct regions called "plazas," each led by an equally tough drug lord.
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Mexico's Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border.
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Just 10 migrants managed to scramble up into the smaller boat to join the smugglers and 27 other migrants already aboard.
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"If the weather is good, between 2000 and 280 smugglers come every day," says Fariat, one of the two Kurdish militiamen.
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Government leaders dismiss such criticism as an effort by opposition leaders to protect smugglers and unscrupulous businesses that overcharge for goods.
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In the world of Dandong smugglers, there are clear reasons for each destination: The U.K. suggests Rolls Royce and Rothman cigarettes.
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"It was so late at night that it was only the smugglers and the Houthi rebels around those vehicles," he said.
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North Africans are trying to get across, but must use smugglers or act alone, traipsing through woods or ripping up fences.
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Phase One of Galaxy's Edge opens Friday -- which includes the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride and all the shops and restaurants.
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Image: Tim FlachImage: Tim FlachPoachers and smugglers trade Madagascar's ploughshare tortoises for their shells, and the species is now critically endangered.
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One organization bred 600 tortoises from a set of confiscated ones, then purposely defaced the shells to deter smugglers, writes Baille.
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Those who can't afford to pay smugglers grab hold of tanks and try to float across the mile-wide Naf River.
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Maybe the lesson here is for would-be smugglers to take a couple trips and split up the load next time.
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Or they could just build a giant catapult and fling some phones from the island, like those weed smugglers in Mexico.
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But many are unwilling to wait up to six months for identity documents and take their chance with the smugglers instead.
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The dead were thought to be migrants rather than smugglers because they were sub-Saharan Africans, IOM spokesman Joel Millman said.
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IOM spokesman Leonard Doyle said that better spring weather had encouraged smugglers to take migrants out of detention centres in Libya.
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In March, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia closed their borders to refugees, forcing them to seek alternative routes or pay smugglers.
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And while a deal with Turkey has cut refugee flows, smugglers are still getting through and Greek islands are dangerously overcrowded.
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Smugglers have also raised prices to bring would-be immigrants from Central America through Mexico and to the border, he said.
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That served as an alternative for parents who might otherwise turn to smugglers to bring their children to the US illegally.
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But there's one method that smugglers around the world seem to keep coming back to, time after time—the produce disguise.
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Helped by Libya-based people smugglers, some 150,000 people have set off for Italy in unseaworthy boats so far this year.
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