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	People smuggling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People smuggling is a term which is used to describe the illegal and organised smuggling of people across international boundaries, usually for financial gain.
		People smuggling has become the preferred trade of a growing number of criminal networks world-wide which are showing an increasing sophistication in regard to move larger numbers of people at higher profits than ever.
		Interpol in a recent communication described people smuggling as follows:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/People_smuggling (130 words)

	Smuggling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Smuggling now is considerably diversified: the smuggling of immigrants, armaments, illegal drugs, as well as the historical staples of smuggling, alcohol and tobacco are widespread throughout the Western world.
		One method of defeating smuggling is to legalize the activity the smugglers are undertaking and reducing or eliminating the taxes which the smugglers are avoiding, thus reducing the profit potential and making the smuggling activity uneconomic as the goods would then be available for a lower price via legal channels.
		Smuggling is illegal transport, in particular across a border.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smuggling (569 words)

	Five: Howard Blair And People-Smuggling
		people smuggling isn't occurring because it is easy to get into the uk, it's happening because people are making lots of money out of some poor wretches who want to have a better life for themselves.
		making it harder for legitimate immigrants or asylum seekers to enter the uk is not going to worry the gangs who operate people smuggling rings, it is going to encourage them.
	www.five.org /blog/2005/04/howard-blair-and-people-smuggling.html (138 words)

	ipedia.com: Smuggling tunnels Article
		Smuggling tunnels are secret tunnels, usually hidden underground, used for smuggling of goods, illegal weapons and people.
		These tunnels are used to smuggle people, including terrorists and prostitutes, and a wide variety of items, including weapons, ammunition, illegal drugs, clothes, cigarettes, alcohol, and vehicle parts.
		Smuggling tunnels connect Egypt and the Gaza Strip, bypassing the international border established by the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
	www.ipedia.com /smuggling_tunnels.html (489 words)

	smuggling and trafficking
		People facing persecution face enormous obstacles in attempting to flee, both from their persecutors who may try to prevent them from leaving and from other states that are attempting to control their borders.
		People, especially women and girls, are deceived or abducted, held in a form of modern slavery, forced into prostitution, intimidated and subjected to violence.
		Even some of the people who are trafficked, knowing the wrongs of their situation of bondage, may still prefer it to what they left behind, either for themselves or for what it enables them to do for family members.
	www.web.net /~ccr/traffick.html (6672 words)

	Inteligence The business of smuggling people across the Sahara
		The business of smuggling people across the Sahara
		Usually people seeking immigration will have their accommodation organised by the Gao-based people smugglers, who in turn hand them over to the Touaregs, who are still masters of the desert and know routes in which they avoid the official border crossing points.
		People try a lot of things to "get out" — including lying and forging documents — in a bid to move to greener pastures.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/july/sun11072004/intelligence/intel10070418.htm (1226 words)

	CNN.com - Death boat people smuggling charges dropped - August 29, 2002
		But Indonesia has no law against people smuggling and the government refused to extradite Abu Quassey to Australia -- where he would have faced people smuggling charges.
		CNN's Atika Shubert reports on the fate of one organizer of the risky and sometimes fatal business of people smuggling in Indonesia.
		Prosecutors have instead charged Abu Quassey with a minor visa violation, which carries a maximum sentence of 6 months, because the country does not have a law against people smuggling.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/08/29/indon.smuggler (541 words)

	labor-immigration3.doc
		The people smuggling phenomenon is an international issue with millions of desperate people seeking a better life from themselves and their families.
		COMBATTING PEOPLE SMUGGLING: INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS People smuggling: A Regional Security Problem Effective measures to combat people smuggling require cooperation with and action by Australia’s neighbours who are serving as transit routes for the movement of asylum seekers and illegal migrants to Australia.
		A Labor Government will pursue the issue of people smuggling with the highest levels of the Indonesian Government and encourage Jakarta to focus on the problem and recognise the mutual benefits of enhanced cooperation.
	www.labor4refugees.org /labor-immigration3.doc (6047 words)

	Police smash people smuggling ring - Evening Times
		The smuggling ring is estimated to have made tens of millions of pounds from the racket, some of which has been invested in businesses such as cafes and snooker halls.
		Eighteen people, including former asylum seekers, were arrested in the raids and held on suspicion of immigration offences.
		It's believed the group, a huge pan-European organisation, could be responsible for smuggling tens of thousands of mainly Turkish Kurds into the UK illegally in the past few years.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /news/5044414.shtml (567 words)

	People Smuggling
		Because the organisers of people smuggling to Australia are generally located overseas, PST will continue to work closely with the AFP overseas liaison network in source and transit countries.
		In order to foster an understanding of Australia’s interests in relation to people smuggling and to assist overseas agencies with their investigations of this area of criminality, the Government has provided funding of $5.
		One of the outcomes of the recent federal budget was the provision by Government of funding for an additional liaison officer position in Jakarta to work on people smuggling.
	www.afp.gov.au /afp/raw/Publications/Platypus/Sep00/1psmugl.htm (2200 words)

	Australian Immigration Fact Sheet - People Smuggling
		People smuggling is the organised illegal movement of groups or individuals to another country.
		People who arrive in Australia without authority are required by law to be placed in immigration detention until their situation is resolved (see Fact Sheet 82, Immigration Detention).
		People are identified as arriving illegally in Australia if they arrive without authority to do so (eg a visa or Electronic Travel Authority) or if they present documentation that is found to be fraudulent.
	www.immi.gov.au /facts/73smuggling.htm (1608 words)

	People smuggling summit begins - theage.com.au
		During the meeting, Australia is expected to promote a model of people smuggling and trafficking legislation developed by Australia and China, which countries can adopt for their own laws.
		Mr Ruddock is expected to sign as many as four memorandums of understanding on people smuggling and trafficking with countries in the region.
		Arriving in Bali on Monday night, Mr Downer said he was not concerned that Indonesia had not yet introduced laws against people smuggling, which were on Jakarta's agenda when the last regional meeting was held in February 2002.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/29/1051381922796.html (391 words)

	BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific China mass people smuggling trial
		All those smuggled in that operation came from the south eastern province of Fujian, which has a history of people smuggling despite being relatively wealthy.
		Human smuggling from China hit Western headlines in June 2000 when 58 people from Fujian were found suffocated in a truck at the British port of Dover.
		China's biggest people smuggling trial has begun in the city of Nanjing, with 42 people charged with trafficking hundreds of people out of the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2514609.stm (268 words)

	People Smuggling: The Crime of Flight --- Asia Pacific Media Service
		Criminal syndicates are turning from smuggling drugs to smuggling people, and governments and law-enforcement agencies are anxious to stop the flow.
		People Smuggling: The Crime of Flight --- Asia Pacific Media Service
		But Indonesia has no law against people smuggling, so Quassey would face prosecution only for entering the country illegally.
	www.asiapacificms.com /articles/people_smuggling (1998 words)

	Police smash huge European people-smuggling ring - Boston.com
		British police arrested nine people on Tuesday suspected of being involved in one of Europe's largest people smuggling rackets following raids at twelve addresses in London and one in Lincolnshire in east England.
		British police arrested seven people suspected of leading one of Europe's largest human smuggling rackets in a series of dawn raids on Tuesday.
		Of the 18 arrests, seven were held on suspicion of the facilitation of human smuggling and two for interfering in the inquiry.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/10/11/police_smash_huge_european_people_smuggling_ring (453 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		With the jailing for 12 years of one of south-east Asia's people smuggling overlords in a Perth court, the Australian Federal Police and their international partners hope that aura of invincibility has been punctured.
		Also in Perth, Pakistani Hasan Ayoub faces 12 charges of smuggling people from Indonesia to Australia from between December 2000 and March 2001 while pioneering a new route using the southern Cambodian port of Sihanoukville.
		Up to 353 people at a time would set out from Indonesia, usually Lombok, and land at Ashmore Reef, 610km north of Broome, on the northern tip of the WA coastline.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,251977-1-9,00.html (749 words)

	Australian Immigration - Illegal Migration
		People who arrive in Australia illegally either come on their own accord without any involvement by organisations, or their travel is organised by criminal networks and/or people smuggling syndicates.
		People smuggling involves the illegal movement of people across international borders, usually for payment.
		This implies a voluntary agreement between the organiser and the person being smuggled.
	www.immi.gov.au /illegals/people.htm (108 words)

	Co-Chairs' Statement: Second Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling... 29-30 April 2003
		Ministers discussed the links between people smuggling, trafficking in persons and other forms of transnational crime and were concerned that many of the smuggling and trafficking activities were being orchestrated by criminal networks that were also involved in the trafficking of narcotics, document fraud, money laundering, arms smuggling, terrorism and other transnational crimes.
		Ministers affirmed that the root causes of people smuggling and trafficking in persons were numerous and multidimensional, involving economic, social and political aspects.
		Such developments included the implementation or development of national legislation, according to their respective national circumstances, to criminalise people smuggling and trafficking, the agreement of bilateral memoranda of understanding on information exchange, the strengthening of domestic law enforcement procedures, and the initiation of capacity building projects on border management.
	www.kbri-canberra.org.au /press/press030430e.htm (2419 words)

	The World Today - People smuggling focus of new book
		GREG CLANCY: People's perception of people smuggling is that its an industry involving people outside Australia resulting in the illegal transportation of people who come into Australia and then the people smugglers move back for another load.
		This is correct but there's also an aspect of people smuggling that's also unknown in Australia and that's the influence of people smugglers within Australia and its a very serious matter which has been given very little media press.
		Various people who engage in these activities do not see Australian systems which are in place now for identification as being very efficient at all.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s715022.htm (706 words)

	Andrew Wilkie - People-Smuggling: National Myths and Realities
		But global irregular people movement was increasing, some smugglers had a few success down under, and before long the would-be smugglers got a whiff of the money.
		By then of course the smugglers were rolling in cash and under pressure from the thousands of people keen to complete the last leg of their long, dangerous and expensive journey to Australia.
		It was of course the vessel that distinguished itself in the rescue of hundreds of people off SIEV 4, but later was embroiled in the children overboard affair.
	www.safecom.org.au /wilkie.htm (3064 words)

	Jakarta acts on people smuggling
		People smuggling is not a crime in Indonesia, and some of the smugglers were deported for visa violations, which is one of the few ways in which the Government can legally take action against them.
		The 30-nation ministerial conference on smuggling, which opens tomorrow night in Bali, will try to find ways to ensure the smuggling and trafficking of people across borders - a problem rife in Asia - is effectively dealt with as criminal activity.
		The conference, to be co-chaired by Indonesia's Foreign Minister, Mr Hassan Wirajuda, and his Australian counterpart, Mr Alexander Downer, is not expected to lead to any immediate action to restrict people smuggling.
	sievx.com /articles/psdp/20020225TimDodd.html (606 words)

	CNN.com - People smuggling tops Euro agendas - February 9, 2001
		The annual Anglo-French summit comes as European justice ministers are debating the wider issue of "people smuggling" in Stockholm, agreeing on Thursday to send more immigration police and intelligence units to the Western Balkans to curb the growing trade.
		More than 20,000 people were caught being smuggled into the UK last year but authorities believe many more made it through.
		New laws have been introduced in the UK which make it possible to fine lorry drivers £2,000 for any illegal immigrants found in the trucks -- legislation that drivers say is unfair because often they are not aware immigrants have sneaked into their vehicles.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/france/02/09/britain.illegals (571 words)

	Crimes Legislation Amendment (People Smuggling, Firearms Trafficking and Other Measures) Bill 2002 (Bills Digest 84, 2002-03)
		The new offences proposed in the Bill apply to what might be called ‘international offences’ ie to the smuggling of people into a foreign country (whether or not via Australia), whereas existing offences in the Migration Act apply to the smuggling of people into Australia.
		Article 5 of the Smuggling Protocol provides that migrants shall not become liable to criminal prosecution because they are the victims of people smugglers.
		Crimes Legislation Amendment (People Smuggling, Firearms Trafficking and Other Measures) Bill 2002 (Bills Digest 84, 2002-03)
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/bd/2002-03/03bd084.htm (5037 words)

	Illegal Alien Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
		The so-called "white slave trade" referred to the smuggling of women, almost always under duress or fraud, for the purposes of prostitution.
		The official estimate is that between 1998-2004 there were 1,954 people who died in illegal crossings of the US/Mexico border.
		Advocates of free immigration characterize most migrants as legitimate refugees, while advocates of restrictions divide people into political migrants and economic migrants.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Illegal_alien (1503 words)

	Current Events: Busted: U.S. cracks down on people-smuggling ring
		The INS calls smuggling people into the United States big business.
		The vast majority of people who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally must pay smugglers, or "coyotes" as they are called in Mexico, fees as high as $10,000 to get them to the United States.
		Why might people risk their lives to come to the United States illegally?
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_16_101/ai_82510663 (1185 words)

	washingtonpost.com: People Smuggling Now Big Business in Mexico
		The smuggling groups that charge the most offer more sophisticated services, including computer-generated fake documents or stolen valid visas and passports, which help people waltz through U.S. entry gates without having to attempt dangerous desert crossings.
		Of particular worry is a deeper smuggling network inside the United States, including drop houses where immigrants are kept, often against their will, until they pay off smuggling fees.
		He said one smuggling ring he saw put illegal Chinese immigrants on tour buses in Mexico so they appeared to be tourists.
	earthops.net /immigration/human-cargo1.html (1179 words)

	JTW News - 19 held in people smuggling probe
		Nineteen people were arrested after dawn raids in London and Lincolnshire as part of a crackdown on the alleged smuggling of Turkish Kurds into the UK.
		A further six people were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences, two on suspicion of interfering with the inquiry, two on suspicion of theft and one on suspicion of money-laundering offences.
		Eighteen people were arrested in raids on 12 residential and business addresses in London and a 19th man was arrested at a residential address in Boston, Lincolnshire.
	www.turkishweekly.net /news.php?id=20639 (883 words)

	The Australian: Trial over people smuggling (archived)
		Australian Federal Police are still hunting for a third suspect known as "Mathem", who was pinpointed by several survivors as a key player in the alleged people-smuggling racket in Indonesia.
		Khaleed Shnayf Daoed, 37, was ordered to stand trial today in Brisbane's Supreme Court on 10 counts of people smuggling after facing a preliminary hearing on the charges.
		Daoed allegedly worked alongside convicted people smuggler Abu Quassey, who is serving a seven-year sentence for manslaughter in an Egyptian jail for his role in the trip.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,10272031^1702,00.html (418 words)

	Australian Immigration Minister - Media Release: Australia and Syria Cooperate on People Smuggling
		Mr Ruddock said the aim of his visit was to gain a detailed perspective of Syria's experience in dealing with illegal movements of people, as well as to exchange intelligence on people smuggling activities.
		Mr Ruddock said that Syrian Ministers were receptive to his argument that, in order for Australia to continue to resettle people in greatest need of protection, the people smuggling industry must be stopped.
		In addition to these measures, a global approach was needed to stop the growing people smuggling industry.
	www.minister.immi.gov.au /media_releases/ruddock_media00/r00004.htm (381 words)

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