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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Les H who wrote (15160)11/17/2003 8:05:09 AM
From: Wyätt GwyönRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Americans now into human smuggling
online.wsj.com;
Each day, over 50,000 vehicles come into the U.S. through San Ysidro, where check-cashing services and cut-rate motels line the main streets. Authorities can stop and search 1,000 vehicles at most, say officials from the Department of Homeland Security. The overworked U.S. attorney's office in San Diego generally recommends against prosecuting anybody caught with fewer than 12 people in tow -- particularly if the human cargo has been treated humanely...
Smuggling has created a mini employment boom here for single mothers, military personnel and especially teenagers who know the dance clubs where potential customers hang out. Between July 2001 and August 2002, the most-recent data available, the Immigration and Naturalization Service counted nearly 400 cases at this checkpoint alone involving smugglers younger than 18 years old. Most of these juvenile smugglers were let go.
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