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We do a lot behind the scenes to stop the smugglers from coming through here.

Chief Robert Lopez

It will help curb identity fraud and possible misuse by people smugglers, terrorists and other transnational criminals.

Alexander Downer

Begin to work out programs for regular migration. Begin to work on better cooperation among law enforcement and social ministries on the welcome of migrants, the integration of migrants and enforcement of mechanisms against smugglers and traffickers.

Brunson Mckinley

Fifty-nine is a notorious transit area. It's a corridor that is used by smugglers.

Luisa Deason

It is 100 percent baseless and false. These provisions were requested by border-based U.S. attorneys to help crack down on human smugglers.

Jeff Lungren

This appears to be a typical drop house, where loads of aliens were kept. They are held for a while, until relatives pay whatever fee was arranged at the border to ransom them. Sometimes they're held against their will when smugglers raise the amount.

Luisa Deason

The smugglers are moving the groups laterally in Mexico and then crossing them in very desolate, remote places along the Southwest border. And in many cases, individuals will perish in the desert.

Mario Villarreal

It's a rational way to reduce your risk. Most of them are getting caught at least once in the San Diego sector, but it is a more attractive option for many. The smugglers have obviously made that calculation too, that people are more willing to be smuggled through the San Diego sector than through the Arizona desert.

Wayne Cornelius

This is going to have the opposite effect of what the U.S. government wants, since the demand for migrant smugglers is going to go up.

Victor Clark

When you have such a huge price gap you leave the door open to arbitrage by oil smugglers.

Anton Gunawan

Smugglers are inventive, but this is the first time we have come across a loaf of bread as a vehicle for contraband cigarettes.

Liis Plakk

While drug smugglers are invisible for the most part, people smugglers are visible, working right in front of authorities.

Victor Clark

The heat has been brutal. The smugglers continue to bring these people to the vastness of our western deserts ... and we cannot control the elements.

Jose Garza

We have agents at the airports in Harlingen, McAllen and Brownsville because we're aware that smugglers will try to use all modes of transportation to smuggle their cargo into the interior.

Roy Cervantes

At most, would-be migrants and the people-smugglers who assist them find these groups to be a fleeting obstacle that they can easily detour around.

Wayne Cornelius

We need to let the public know that smugglers, they don't care about any human life. They don't care about anything except lining their own pockets.

Jesus Torres

There were two alleged smugglers, and apparently they were among 14 people who were able to cling to the hull of the boat after it capsized. Eleven of those people eventually floated away -- and they did not have life jackets.

Chris O'neil

The houses were all abandoned buildings used by smugglers and people traffickers for shelter, the rest of the village remains intact.

Carlos Gonzalez

Don't forget that this is not just a collection of warlords, drug lords and smugglers. We have good people as well.

Shukria Barakzai

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

Chris O'neil

I hope this sends a message out to anyone attempting to do this that we are actively looking for cigarette smugglers, and the courts are on our side.

Michael Golden

Deploying a tire-deflating device is not the solution because the smugglers regularly swerve around them, causing them to loose control.

Claudia Smith

There's nothing easier if you follow the smugglers' route.

Olivier Roy

Once they are sent home, they will try to come back in. They'll use the same smugglers.

Frank Johnston

We do believe it's a trend where smugglers are attempting to go underground after 9/11 as a result of the heightened security.

Lauren Mack

Smugglers are constantly looking for alternate routes. They think the chances of getting caught going from Cuba to Florida are far larger than from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It is definitely becoming a favorite route for Dominican smugglers.

Ivan Ortiz

The Rio Grande Valley area is an established corridor that smugglers use largely due to the geography, population, and an expanded smuggling network on both sides of the border.

Miguel de Cervantes

This incident shows the aggressiveness and lack of scruples of these smugglers who put the lives of innocent people at risk.

Col. Jorge Samper

This is the second time someone dies this year; it's extremely dangerous. People that pay smugglers can expect things like this to happen because the smugglers aren't looking out for people.

Luis Diaz

Once again, people are dying trying to reach Yemen aboard smuggler's boats crossing the Gulf of Aden from Somalia.

William Spindler

The destructive effects of corruption is most evident in smuggling, which is possible only with the collusion of rotten officials at the Bureau of Customs and elsewhere. Jobs are being wasted as domestic industries stagger from the atrocious and ruinous activities of smugglers.

Ernesto Herrera