Human Smuggling In Canada

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Human smuggling rings successfully smuggle hundreds of citizens into Canada every year. In 2011, Taiwanese authorities, with the help of Canadian and Australian officials, have dismantled a large human smuggling ring that operated between Asia, Australia and North America. This ring of snakeheads was responsible for smuggling over 100 illegal migrants from the Fujian province in southern China. The illegal migrants were flown from Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport (due to the fact that people with Taiwanese passports do not need a visa to enter Canada) into Canada or Australia, where they were forced to pay their debts, enabling the ring to make over a three million dollar profit. The snakehead leader was Feng Sheng-hsiung, a 50 year

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