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Texas is an attractive stop for these circuits due to its sizable Asian population, which makes it easier for Asian trafficking victims to blend in. [24] Texas sex trafficking operations involving Asian women and children typically operate out of massage parlors and hostess clubs, and are usually located in predominantly Asian areas with ...
A Texas truck driver is facing jailtime after being charged with the deaths of 53 illegal aliens after transporting them in poor conditions resulting in death.
British H.M. Revenue & Customs officers with seized smuggled tobacco, 2014. [1]Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
In another thwarted human smuggling event near Mission, Texas, a DPS brush team working with a K-9 pursued a group of illegal border crossers for nearly three miles. Referred to as gotaways, they ...
Some of the most important types of illicit trade include various forms of smuggling, the illegal drug trade, counterfeiting, human trafficking, the illicit tobacco trade, arms trafficking, illicit trafficking of cultural property, and various environmental crimes such as illegal wildlife trade, illegal logging and illegal fishing.
A Texas man who led a large human smuggling operation was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison after he was found guilty ... He admitted to smuggling more than 2,500 illegal immigrants into the US ...
Smuggling is a symptom of larger problems including poverty, climate change, and the Global North’s hypocritical desire for cheap labor and its simultaneous hatred of migrants.
The organizers employ mules to reduce the risk of getting caught themselves. Methods of smuggling include hiding the goods in vehicles or carried items, attaching them to one's body, or using the body as a container. In the case of transporting illegal drugs, the term drug mule applies. Other slang terms include Kinder Surprise and Easter Egg.