Smugglers Offering Migrants 'Package Deals' to Cross Borders

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Smugglers Offering Migrants 'Package Deals' to Cross Borders
Gangs engaged in the criminal smuggling of migrants offer "package deals," ranging from US$3,000 to US$20,000, for passage to another country, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The amount depends on the degree of sophistication of the services they offer.
"The first package is when the migrant simply pays for assistance in order to cross borders, and then has minimal assistance upon reaching the destination country, a package that could be up to US$6,000. A much more complex package: assistance with facilitating false documents, could be more than US$17,000, US$20,000," said Amado Philip de Andrés, Regional Representative of the UNODC in Panama.
The business has become so sophisticated that one practice of those involved in illegal migrant smuggling even includes taking people to a country that is not theirs, having them appear at the civil registry office to be recognized as nationals, and thus they have a document in order to apply for a passport that will be genuine, but fraudulently obtained.
"For the African it is very hard to distinguish a Honduran from a Guatemalan, or a Spaniard from a Frenchman; for us it is difficult to distinguish Chinese from a Taiwanese, Korean or Japanese. The gangs know this, and they use this complex package with forged documents with considerable logistical support on arrival," he said.
He added that there are even times when the migrant is offered support in the destination country during their first three months in order to find work, a service that increases the cost.
During the closing session of the International Conference on the Illegal Trafficking of Migrants, held in our country, the UNODC Regional Representative stressed the importance of going after the money of the mafias who traffic migrants that, according to estimates, take in US$7 billion annually.
In this context, he called for countries to allocate part of the goods seized from the gangs to pay for actions in the fight against this phenomenon.
As part of the sophistication that the mafias have acquired, Amado Philip de Andrés also warned about the multiplication of routes for the movement of migrants. "The transnational nature of the phenomenon is worrisome, the standard flow is from other parts of Latin America to Central America, through the United Mexican States, and then entering the United States. But these flows are increasing, and there is more and more interest in these mafias to operate on the India subcontinent, passing by way of the Horn of Africa, West Africa, to reach America."
Given the complex modus operandi of these groups, he said that regional and international cooperation is essential in order to fight the phenomenon, however this is not "too efficient."
"With more border area cooperation between countries, there will be a balloon effect, as when you squeeze on one side for greater inter-policing cooperation the flows tend to go to the other side; if we are truly effective in fighting this phenomenon in Central America, logically it [will] begin to pass through the Caribbean or vice versa.... We have to automatically think about the other region, otherwise we will be working in vain. "
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[wetibbe]

Maybe Obama has a secret agenda. Turn America into a leftist, Marxist shyte hole worse than the places these migrants come from. That'll fix em !!!!

They won't all be rushing our shores any longer. NO - they will be rushing back home ! Brilliant !!!

[Patriotic Army Mom]

I bet that I can find a package for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!