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    Smuggling. 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.

  2. Jul 25, 2022 · Teófilo Valencia, whose 17- and 19-year-old sons perished in the San Antonio tragedy, said he had taken out a loan against the family home to pay the smugglers $10,000 for each son’s transport.

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  3. Oct 6, 2022 · The smugglers have begun using new methods to conceal and transport migrants. In addition to the arrests, 5,549 disruptions of human smuggler infrastructure have also been carried out, which includes raiding smuggler stash houses, impounding tractor trailers that are used to smuggle migrants, and confiscating smuggler IT to track down more ...

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    Smug·gler
    /ˈsməɡ(ə)lər/

    noun

    • 1. a person who smuggles goods: "drug smugglers"
  5. Jun 30, 2018 · The smugglers said the spot, more isolated, was usually reserved for moving drug shipments, more valuable than migrants. Mr. Cruz would have to swim across the Rio Grande for the fifth time that day.

  6. May 4, 2021 · The smugglers are brothers and run the business out of their family home, smuggling people into the US with the help of one brother’s 14 year-old son. Makeshift ladders laid out in the backyard ...

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  8. Jul 31, 2015 · One of Egypt’s most active smugglers is a Syrian who estimated he earned about £1.5m in 2014 sending an estimated 10,000 migrants to Italy. That was after payments to middlemen, sailing crews ...

  9. Mar 19, 2024 · A bracelet used by human smugglers and inscribed with the name of an immigrant who crossed illegally from Mexico to the U.S. to seek asylum is discarded near the Rio Grande river at the border ...

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