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What Do U think of latest smuggling bust who smuggled in as many as 10,000 illegal immigrants in 2 years?

Investigators have broken up a Phoenix smuggling ring that transported as many as 10,000 illegal immigrants in two years around the country, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard announced Friday. Goddard called the network "the Greyhound bus lines of human smuggling" because the smugglers hauled immigrants in as many as 10 vans from Phoenix-area drophouses to 22 other states. They did business mostly in cash, collecting hundreds of dollars for each immigrant from employers and relatives in other states on arrival and, after taking a cut, smuggling payments to cartels across the border in Mexico, authorities said. Driving bags full of cash south across the border has become a key smugglers' tactic to skirt an Arizona crackdown on wire-transfer payments. Authorities arrested 21 suspects, including a person suspected of being a local kingpin. Thirty-five have been indicted by a state grand jury, and investigators are seeking dozens more. All but two of the suspects identified Friday were in the country illegally, prosecutors said. The grand jury charged the suspects with conspiracy, money laundering and participating in an illegal syndicate.http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2008/12/13/20081213smuggle-takedown1213.html

Public Comments

1. I believe the Federal Government under the previous Attorney General was so poorly managed it is criminal. And in fact, that dolt should be arrested and charged with malfeasance in public office. Ahh but.. George's buddy has pull. Chertoff is doing a good job and maybe we should let the dolt off.
2. May there be more busts for the criminals helping criminals!
3. Restrain Repatriate Repeat..... Its as simple as that....
4. Good job! DEPORT, Deport, deport
5. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
6. It's about time something was done.I don't believe that if someone breaks into your house you're supposed to let them live there.That's exactly what's happening.
7. We can only blame that on the stupid wall everybody like you wants to build. The wall is only giving these smugglers more business. Before, immigrants would take on the dangerous trek on their own, or with a few others, not 10 or 20 at a time like the smugglers do. The fence makes it hard for people that would try it on their own, so now they hire smugglers to do it, and that's the same reason why we have more smugglers in the US. The border fence is also causing more agent asaults!....nothing good is coming our of this fence. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/apborder10-07-06.htm Increased Border Security Leads To More Agent Assaults, Bolder Smugglers As security tightens, smugglers dig tunnels under fences, disguise themselves as members of the Mexican military, and, in general, become bolder, authorities say.
8. It should happen alot more often. Part of the problem is the time spent investigating. 2 years and more investigating before they have enough evidence for the courts. That is ridiculous. It shouldn't take that much evidence to convict.