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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 840184" data-attributes="member: 12952">Smuggling ILLEGALS is a $6.6 Billion/year BusinessTruckloads of migrants a billion-dollar businessWeb Producer: Brian PryorMEXICO CITY (AP) — X-ray machines at checkpoints in&nbsp; southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine&nbsp; business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and&nbsp; transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United&nbsp; States.The machines in place for less than two years at two state police&nbsp; checkpoints have led to the two largest hauls of migrants, who pay&nbsp; anywhere from $7,000 to $30,000 for passage, depending where they start.The United Nations estimates that smuggling migrants across&nbsp; Mexico’s border with the U.S. alone is a $6.6 billion business annually,&nbsp; compared to an estimated the $10 billion to $29 billion in illegal drug&nbsp; running. The migrant smuggling estimate doesn’t include another $1&nbsp; billion paid by thousands of non-Mexicans to cross from Guatemala and&nbsp; travel north, according to a 2010 U.N. report on transnational crime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 840184, member: 12952"] [B]Smuggling ILLEGALS is a $6.6 Billion/year Business[/B] [B]Truckloads of migrants a billion-dollar business Web Producer: Brian Pryor MEXICO CITY (AP) — [/B]X-ray machines at checkpoints in southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United States. The machines in place for less than two years at two state police checkpoints have led to the two largest hauls of migrants, who pay anywhere from $7,000 to $30,000 for passage, depending where they start. [B]The United Nations estimates that smuggling migrants across Mexico’s border with the U.S. alone is a $6.6 billion business annually[/B], compared to an estimated the $10 billion to $29 billion in illegal drug running. The migrant smuggling estimate doesn’t include another $1 billion paid by thousands of non-Mexicans to cross from Guatemala and travel north, according to a 2010 U.N. report on transnational crime. [/QUOTE]

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