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Indictments in Canada Border Crossings

 
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garykasparov



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:35 pm    Post subject: Indictments in Canada Border Crossings Reply with quote



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Indictments in Canada Border Crossings
By WILSON RING � 7 hours ago

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) � A human smuggling operation based in Toronto and another in Montreal moved hundreds of immigrants into the U.S., with some paying $10,000 apiece, American prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing indictments against the groups.

Most of the illegal border crossings took place on foot in a stretch the U.S. Border Patrol considers a prime area for smuggling because of its proximity to interstate highways that make it easy to move people once they're in the country, said Thomas Anderson, U.S. attorney for Vermont.

One of the groups, apparently working with recruiters in South Korea, would meet immigrants at the Toronto airport and take them to safe houses, then send them with guides or drop them near the border with instructions to meet drivers on the U.S. side, according to one of the indictments.

Anderson estimated the groups had brought hundreds of people into the U.S. from South Korea, Pakistan, India and Central America since 2004, though he did not have a specific figure. Some of those people paid as much as $10,000 for the smugglers' services, he said.

Officials said that some of the people brought into the United States had previous criminal records in this country, and that others were vulnerable to being preyed upon by the smugglers.

"Oftentimes, these people who are smuggled into the United States are indebted to these people for a very long time," said Bruce Foucart, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

A federal grand jury in Vermont indicted the Toronto group in September and the Montreal group in October; the Toronto charges were sealed until Wednesday. Alien smuggling, the most serious charge, carries a sentence of as many as 15 years in prison upon conviction.

Eight of the 11 people charged had been arrested, including several by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and one in South Korea, authorities said. Two people were being sought in Canada and another in the U.S.

The arrests appear to have disrupted organized human smuggling along the Border Patrol sector that runs from Ogdensburg, N.Y., east to Maine, Anderson said.

"Roughly since August, the aliens we have apprehended coming across the Swanton sector have really dwindled to a trickle," he said.
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Mr. Pink



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps you should have put KOREANS being smuggled into US.

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/280953

This article emphasizes the Korean stuff more.
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thepeel



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anybody want to guess the vocation of the Koreans being smuggled into the USA?
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd like to see a fence along the northern border to keep that riff raff out. And I'm not talking about Korean ladies of easy virtue.
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thepeel



Joined: 08 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, we can pay for it and the legions of unemployed American real estate agents can build it. It will be a symbol of the new North America. Actually, no. If the Americans build it it will just fall over like a levy. Better hire some Quebecois.
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Leavingkorea



Joined: 27 Apr 2007

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thepeel wrote:
Anybody want to guess the vocation of the Koreans being smuggled into the USA?


Me, me. Oh Pick me!!!! Razz
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Pluto



Joined: 19 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thepeel wrote:
Anybody want to guess the vocation of the Koreans being smuggled into North America?


Fixed it for you.
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hugo_danner



Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The way things are in the USA now, they'd have been better off staying in Canookistan!
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