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The Penalties Of Smuggling: Article Analysis
Morgan McCaskey
Ms.Rickett
Period 2
8 March 2013 The Penalties of Smuggling More than 17,000 people were smuggled or trafficked into the United States. The U.S Mexico border is the most unstable region in North America. In groups of 10 to 16, women and children routinely cross the border, led by brazen smugglers called polleros. Smugglers should receive harsher penalties because the treatment of the immigrants are inhumane, it’s a National Threat, and its illegal. In the article,” Trafficking in Humans,” the author says,” The tales of smugglers heartlessness are well known.” Immigrants were fooled into thinking that jobs awaited them and that they would have a better life. Instead
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we have not a clue of whom had been smuggled into our country. It is dangerous for the U.S gov’t not to know who is entering our Nation. It won’t be long until terrorist will try to become tied in with smugglers. Smugglers and terrorist are much more different and they both think of techniques to enter the country illegally. United Nations had a conference on human trafficking to make a plan end it all. The plan did not work, they decided to make a new plan, but this would limit resources. As a worldwide issue, the victims and clients often come from different regions, as associated with terrorist. Sixty-two percent of illegal immigrants come from Mexico, that’s more than half and most who live here illegally are living in poverty. The U.S should try to protect the border more and keep track of the attempts of crossing the …show more content…
The U.S gov’t is trying to set ways that will die down this crime. Some human smugglers deserve a year life long sentence but ends up being one to two years only receiving a misdemeanor. That leaves international networks of transporters, recuiters ,guides and boats captains available to migrate human cargo with the rish of being caught by the U.S. A bill sponsored by Rep. Baron P. Hill, the alien smuggling and terrorism Prevention, would make the penalties on smugglers a little harsher, and moved it from a misdemeanor to a felony. Human smugglers that are caught in the illegal act get a five year sentences minimum for many offences. If the smuggler has a victim that has almost witnessed death there sentenced to longer time behind bars. The U.S stopped focusing on human Smuggling around 100 years ago. In recent years, a new idea of an anti-slavery office in the justice department and tougher anti-trafficking laws, decided that it was a need to build up arms. Building arms and other things are steps forward to protecting the border

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