Word: smugglerous
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...Mexico. Most migrate to find a job, any job; at least 40% of the work force in Mexico is either unemployed or underemployed. Most of the illegal immigrants enter simply by crossing the Mexican border, either on their own or by paying up to $2,000 to a professional smuggler. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has only 2,100 agents stationed along the 2,000-mile border, and no more than 400 are on duty at any one time. Border patrol officials estimate that they manage to catch at best only one out of two illegal aliens...
...Dominica. Among those she defeated was a predecessor, Patrick John, 44, driven from office in 1979 after a BBC documentary charged that his plans for island industrialization included an oil refinery that would benefit South Africa. John's go-between was said to be Burnett-Alleyne, a convicted smuggler who once recruited mercenaries to invade Barbados. The Charles administration believes the ten Americans, who were apprehended with an arsenal of automatic weapons and plastic explosives, were to enforce a government takeover by John-in cahoots, perhaps, with the island's marijuana growers...
...headed. On this patrol, Murtagh's destination is the 135-mile-wide Yucatan Channel off Mexico's southeast coast. That is where, the captain has been told, he has the best opportunity to intercept a large shipment of U.S.-bound marijuana. Once past the channel, a smuggler has an excellent chance of reaching Florida or Louisiana, whose labyrinthine coastal waterways provide concealment for off-loading the precious cargo into smaller, speedier boats known as bullets...
Some of the four women among the 14 known survivors claimed that the smugglers had robbed and raped them, but later withdrew the accusations that apparently had been the result of hallucinations. One of the survivors continued to insist that she had tried but failed to stop the smuggler-who later died-from strangling four women who had begged to be put out of their misery...
...week's end Salvadoran Elias Nunez-Guardado, 26, and Mexican Mateo Preciado, 58, were being held on charges of transporting illegal aliens. Another smuggler made his way north to the town of Why and disappeared. Two other members of the party remain entirely unaccounted...