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	People smuggling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People smuggling is a term which is used to describe transportation of people across international borders to a non-official entry point of a destination country for financial gain.
		People smugglers are sometimes used by refugees fleeing persecution.
		A people smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is usually free.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/People_smuggling (347 words)

	Interpol - People smuggling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		People smuggling is not a homogenous criminal activity; the price of the trip, conditions of travel and status upon arrival can vary significantly.
		People smuggling simply implies the procurement, for financial or material gain, of the illegal entry into a state of which the individual is neither a citizen nor a permanent resident.
		People smuggling syndicates still benefit from weak legislation, huge profits and the relatively low risk of detection, prosecution and arrest compared to other activities of transnational organized crime.
	www.interpol.com /Public/THB/PeopleSmuggling/Default.asp (992 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Are `people smugglers' the problem?
		The term “people smuggler” is designed to conjure up images of evil operators transporting people against their will, bound and gagged.
		The “illegality” of “people smuggling” leaves refugees open to unscrupulous profiteers at the top, while many involved in the journeys are earning a living in one of the few ways available to them.
		But regardless of the varied motivations of “people smugglers”, it is the First World governments' locked gates that drives refugees into their hands.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2002/476/29039 (784 words)

	SA warned over people-smugglers - FT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The grim faces of those in the queues show people who are hungry and worried about how to feed their families.
		People were asked to produce identify cards and if they were visitors, were interrogated about their presence in town.
		South Africa is struggling to control criminal gangs who specialise in spiriting people across its borders, raising fears of a large influx of illegal immigrants driven by famine in neighbouring countries and security threats.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/806796/posts (2971 words)

	Somali News Update: YEMEN: SOMALI MIGRANTS DEFY SMUGGLERS, 21 DEAD
		Sanaa, 17 Oct. (AKI) - Some 21 people are reported to have been killed after a group of Somali migrants on board a boat in the Gulf of Aden rebelled against the people smugglers who were transporting them.
		Despite being unarmed, the immigrants managed to gain possession of some of the smugglers' weapons and in the ensuing battle 21 people - six crew and 15 migrants - were killed.
		"People are drowning not because they have been denied access to protection or to the territory of Yemen, or because they fear interception at sea, but because they are desperate and at the mercy of ruthless smugglers," commented Ron Redmond, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in Geneva.
	www.hiiraan.org /2005/oct/somali_news17_5.html (298 words)

	People smuggling - AFP
		People smugglers are individuals or groups who assist others to illegally enter a country.
		People smugglers are paid by those who wish to enter a country illegally.
		The objectives of this operation are to identify people smuggling networks, assist member states in their investigations, and establish a contact network of specialised officers to exchange information more efficiently.
	www.afp.gov.au /international/human_trafficking/people_smuggling (513 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: The Desperate Try Island-Hopping; Thousands Migrating Illegally… People Smugglers Using DR As ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Smugglers build the crafts in the coastal forests and launch them at night to evade detection by Dominican navy patrols.
		More than 300 people, many of them Dominicans, have died or are missing in illegal voyages bound for Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands in the last three years, according to U.S. Border Patrol records.
		One of the factors contributing to a spike in immigrant smuggling at this time of year is the belief among smugglers that patrols are fewer and controls less strict due to reduced staffing, said Ortiz.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2004/vol8n07/DesperIslHop.shtml (1948 words)

	USBC - In the News
		Late Tuesday, 24 people were being held on immigration violations, including the four men believed to have fired the deadly shots, and authorities say some will face more charges when the investigation determines exactly what led to the incident and which of the people involved were responsible.
		The officers also found two other injured people who'd gotten out of the truck and were at the side of the road, he said.
		Some victims were smugglers themselves and some were illegal entrants who didn't have enough money to buy their lives.
	www.usbc.org /info/2003/nov/gunfight.htm (853 words)

	Four Corners - 23/08/99: The People Smugglers' Guide to Australia. Australian Broadcasting Corp
		The 66 people crammed aboard the tiny boat claim they were on a holiday cruise and had no intentions of travelling to Australia.
		Well some of the people may well have been lawfully in Indonesia, possibly as tourists and to the extent that the Indonesian law allows their detention in those circumstances is something that the Indonesian authorities know best about.
		There are people there living in a grey world, without status in Australia, who are presumably constantly concerned that they may be located, who are being exploited by people because of their illegal status.
	www.abc.net.au /4corners/stories/s46953.htm (5230 words)

	Bahai News -- The Sydney Morning Herald - Ruddock's 'people smugglers' put cash in 'passports': report
		In this conflict, the Ogoni people, led by the subsequently executed Ken Sara Wiwa, protested against environmental damage and injustice in the exploitation of their oil-rich lands and against the impact of the introduction of the strict Islamic punishment code of Sharia Law in some of the 36 states.
		This was done with the apparent knowledge of Australian authorities that such people would face a semi-underground life, excluded from normal employment, in terror of discovery and with active discrimination against themselves and their children in perpetuity.
		People who are found to have refugee status derive this right from the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol to which Australia was an early signatory.
	www.uga.edu /bahai/2003/031007-2.html (6758 words)

	UN Chronicle: Issue 2, 2001: What the United Nations Should Do. . .
		People smugglers frequently compound this core affront with abuse of the human rights and dignity of their customers, leading all too frequently to their death, making it an issue of not only political and criminal concern but also humanitarian.
		The root causes of irregular migration and people smuggling, such as endemic poverty, conflict and repression, can be addressed in the long term through poverty alleviation, conflict resolution, peacekeeping and reconciliation, institution-building and educational initiatives.
		The United Nations can also assist to combat people smuggling through recognizing at conceptual and practical levels that State-developed asylum systems are targeted for abuse by both smugglers and their clients.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue2/0102p34.htm (1254 words)

	Arpaio unit to foil people smugglers
		Although deputies have cooperated with federal immigration agents in the past, this is the first time a special unit has been created within the Sheriff's Office to investigate smuggling crimes.
		"People are not going to want to call them to report crimes" if they think they could get deported, said Luis Ibarra, executive director of Friendly House, a Phoenix-based non-profit organization that provides services to Latino immigrants.
		Mary Rose Wilcox, a Maricopa County supervisor and Hispanic community leader, said she supports the new anti-smuggling unit and does not believe it will be used to target undocumented immigrants.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/special03/articles/0420antismuggling.html (407 words)

	Indonesia, E.Timor, Australia warn people smugglers
		NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Indonesia, East Timor and Australia warned people smugglers on Tuesday that their trade would not be as lucrative as it once was because of growing regional co-operation to crack down on the crime.
		The issue of people smuggling has driven a wedge between Indonesia and Australia in the past year amid a rising tide of mainly Afghan and Middle Eastern refugees arriving in the vast continent from Indonesia.
		As well as looking at ways to tackle terrorism and people smuggling, the three countries ironed out a raft of issues that have dogged their relationship over the past two-and-a-half years.
	www.etan.org /et2002a/february/24-28/26inet.htm (574 words)

	What Do You Think?
		Smugglers often take circuitous routes to bring their human cargo from Third World countries, depending on bilateral visa treaties and gaps in airport and border security.
		The key to Canada is as simple as walking up to an Immigration Canada official and saying: "I declare refugee status." Clients of people smugglers are coached to claim their home was destroyed and that they were beaten.
		The smugglers should be tracked down and given prison sentences comparable to those given drug traffickers, and their ill-gotten gains should be confiscated.
	www.readersdigest.ca /mag/1999/08/think_01.html (1967 words)

	People Smugglers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		People smuggling, like most crimes occurs because there is a demand for something.
		There have been cases where the people smugglers have forced the asylum seekers into unsafe passage (unventilated containers which suffocate, overloaded boats which sink and so on), but the people accept this risk.
		It is pointless to blame the countries in which people smugglers operate for their actions.
	bovination.com /cbs/peopleSmugglers.jsp (336 words)

	Beehive.govt.nz - NZ sends stark warning to people smugglers and boat people
		People smugglers, and anybody assisting them, face fines of up to $500,000.
		A fishing vessel carrying 34 people purported to be headed for New Zealand is now thought by the Indonesian navy and media to have sunk.
		We are receiving persistent rumours of people smugglers recruiting for voyages to Australia and New Zealand.
	www.beehive.govt.nz /ViewDocument.cfm?DocumentID=14426 (580 words)

	New Statesman - We made the people-smugglers rich
		A family friend at Algiers airport was persuaded to let her on a plane and, with the help of a small bribe, his daughter was in London in hours.
		People are breaking into the fortress, despite the restrictions on movement and the plans by Britain and the European signatories of the Schengen agreement to fingerprint all asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants.
		We want to encourage people to comment on our content and to exchange views with other readers and hope this will be done on a courteous basis.
	www.newstatesman.com /200006260006 (2066 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Immigrants are individuals, not just 'Those People'
		WASHINGTON — Half a million people poured into the streets of Los Angeles on Saturday, chanting slogans in Spanish and waving the Mexican flag, to protest the various Republican-sponsored proposals in Congress that would demonize illegal immigrants.
		We all know that Latinos are the nation's largest minority, and that most of the people in those demonstrations either were born in the United States or are here legally.
		And we can convince ourselves that it is somehow different from the periodic waves of immigration that have shaped this nation — that suddenly it is not an issue or even a problem, but an urgent crisis.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635194901,00.html (702 words)

	CNN.com - Key people smuggler arrested in Malaysia - December 3, 2001
		It is alleged he has transported thousands of people from the Middle East to Indonesia and then on to outlying Australian island territories via fishing boats and ferries.
		More than 1,800 boat people attempted to enter Australia in September and October this year, four times the amount in the same period a year ago, according to the Department of Immigration.
		Australia has taken a tough stance on boat people following an international incident in August this year where a Norwegian freighter which had rescued a boatload of asylum seekers was denied permission to land the human cargo in Australia.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/12/02/aust.peoplesmugglers (527 words)

	The people smugglers (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Just as drugs gangs in the 1980s and 1990s used gullible young people to carry drugs into the West, now smuggling gangs are persuading young, unemployed Britons to carry illegal immigrants from the Continent into Britain.
		Already, 30 million people a year are being transported from poor to rich countries, and there is every reason to believe that the business will continue to expand.
		There, he made contact with a gang of smugglers and paid $5,500 for a boat trip to Athens and a ride in the back of a lorry to Calais.
	www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=7817 (2338 words)

	Refugees blame people smugglers in boat tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Most of them blamed the traffickers, who they claimed to have forced them at gun point to board the unseaworthy boat despite their protests over its obviously poor condition.
		Abo Kossi is apparently the man identified by the authorities as Abu Kasim, who is believed to be the mastermind of the human smuggling operations in collusion with others throughout Indonesia.
		After drifting in the water for about 30 hours, 44 people were rescued by passing fishermen who later notified the police over the radio.
	www.sievx.com /articles/disaster/20011026JakartaPost.html (641 words)

	UNHCR - A deadly sailing season begins: smuggling people from Somalia to Yemen
		Survivors on the first boat said four people died when the crew forced them overboard while still far from shore – the first of what will almost certainly be hundreds of deaths during the September to April period when sailing is possible.
		Hundreds of people, looking for refuge or for better economic conditions, are believed to be lost at sea every year when they are exploited by smuggling rings," said Adel Jasmin, representative of the UN refugee agency in Yemen.
		The smugglers are operating from the commercial port of Bossasso in Puntland, a self-declared autonomous area of northeast Somalia, more than 300 kilometres from Yemen.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/newsitem?id=450035822 (931 words)

	Smugglers carry people with links to terror into U.S. \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		After Boughader was locked up, other smugglers continued to help Hezbollah-affiliated migrants in their effort to illicitly enter from Tijuana, a U.S. immigration investigator said in Mexican court documents obtained by the AP.
		Smugglers employ recruiters and facilitators in such "special-interest" countries as Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Pakistan.
		Dismantling groups smuggling people from countries with terrorist ties is a priority, said John Torres, ICE's deputy assistant director for smuggling.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050703/news_1n3tjborder.html (1324 words)

	StarNet - Special Report
		The larger entities have their own networks of people recruiting clients but also finance the overhead of local organizations to control far larger groups of migrants, he said.
		There is little information on how many people have been prosecuted for people-smuggling in the United States, but Grupo Beta agents have arrested hundreds of smugglers since starting operations in Agua Prieta in 1996.
		But in the end, he said, the pressure will continue to build until the smugglers decide the cost is too high and take their business elsewhere, as they did after the agency's crackdown in San Diego.
	www.azstarnet.com /borderline/stories/0711a.htm (1926 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Battling the people smugglers
		While there are 250,000 Chinese people who are a part of British society, nobody knows how many other people from the country arrived unnoticed on the back of a lorry to work in the fl economy.
		Meanwhile, in China itself, a growing economy and rural poverty led communities to club together to send young men abroad to work for the common good; this in turn was very much part of an entrepreneurial, mercantile culture deeply rooted in some of China's provinces.
		But police forces are seeking to forge stronger links with communities themselves by emphasising that it is only with their help that they can attack organised crime.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4830988.stm (1134 words)

	People smugglers eye skies - theage.com.au
		Monday 31 March 2003, 5:05 PM People smugglers in Indonesia have been offering asylum seekers illegal entry into Australia via planes instead of boats, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said.
		Mr Ruddock indicated security had been stepped up at airports around the nation in response to intelligence that people smugglers planned to target illegal air entry.
		"There may be people who were looking to be smuggled here that are now saying, 'Well, look if we're going to put ourselves in the hands of smugglers we'll rather go somewhere else'," he said.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/03/31/1048962692837.html (342 words)

	U.S. suspicious of Cuban offer to turn over alleged smugglers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Two Cuban exiles recently convicted in Miami in a smuggling case in which 14 of 30 passengers died were sentenced to 16 months in prison, $100 fines and supervised release terms of three to five years.
		People smuggling has soared since U.S. efforts to tighten interdiction patrols by the Coast Guard and Border Patrol created a profitable business for boat owners who charge $5,000 to $10,000 a head for the trip, according to U.S. law enforcement officials in Cuba.
		Saying that people smugglers would even face the death penalty in U.S. courts -- a vast exaggeration -- Castro also poked fun at those who express sympathy and concern for political prisoners in Cuba.
	www.fiu.edu /~fcf/ussusp7799.html (630 words)

	23 illegal immigrants tossed overboard by smugglers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The rescued women said the smugglers were transporting 23 woman on the two boats, which would leave five of them unaccounted for, a coast guard spokesman said yesterday evening.
		Chinese people smugglers, known as "snakehead" gangs, have become a global menace and are known for their callous disregard for the lives of their clients.
		Smuggling people and goods across the narrow Taiwan Strait is a major problem but the cross-strait rivalry has prevented a joint solution.
	www.apfn.net /Messageboard/9-27-03/discussion.cgi.27.html (610 words)

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