The People Smugglers.(smuggling of illegal aliens into US)

From: Insight on the News | Date: August 23, 1999| Author: Maier, Timothy W.; Paige, Sean | Copyright information

The U.S. Border Patrol laces increased problems from rapidly growing, sophisticated people-smuggling rings that ape making huge profits from illegal immigrants.

Undercover agents in Texas smashed a family-led smuggling ring on July 13 that for 15 years specialized in sneaking thousands of illegal aliens past Border Patrol checkpoints in the Rio Grande Valley -- sometimes disguising them as fans caravaning to high-school football championships.

On July 26, the...

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