美国国家公共电台 NPR Illegal Border Crossings Are Down, And So Is Business For Smugglers

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has talked a lot about border security, and he's pushed a lot of money and manpower in that direction. Now, some signs that effort may be having an effect. Human trafficking along the southern U.S. border is down.

VOA标准英语2012--Syrian Refugees Seek Out Smugglers

Syrian Refugees Seek Out Smugglers Umm Shaker used to work at the Syrian Army base in Baba Amr in Homs. She said she saw how the army began to kill people protesting against the government after Friday prayers. We used to see the killing in front of

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VOA慢速英语2015 Migrants Are Dying Trying to Reach Europe

Migrants Are Dying Trying to Reach Europe From VOA Learning English, this is In the News. The European Union announced its intention to increase funding for search and rescue efforts at sea after an emergency meeting in Brussels, Belgium. Also, Frenc

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AS IT IS 2016-03-07 Don't Come to Europe, EC Chief Tells Migrants Migrants should not travel to Europe, says European Council President Donald Tusk. I want to appeal to all potential illegal, economic migrants wherever you are from, Tusk said. Do not

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AS IT IS 2015-01-12 International Action Urged to Stop Migrant 'Ghost Ships' 国际行动呼吁停止移民幽灵船 In the first week of January, more than 1,000 migrants had to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. Many were refugees from Syria. The

VOA标准英语2008年-Border Patrol Program Improves Security on US-M

Arrests of illegal aliens along the US/Mexico border have increased over the past year according to records of the US Department of Homeland Security. The records show a 73 percent increase in arrests and prosecutions over the past year. Officials a

VOA标准英语 Drug Smugglers Found Guilty in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone has convicted 15 men of trying to smuggle nearly 700 kilograms of cocaine through the country's airport. Justice Nicolas Browne Marke found all 15 men guilty of conspiracy to import a prohibited drug without lawful authority. Two Colomb

VOA标准英语2012--Syrian Smugglers' Operations Booming in Jordan

Syrian Smugglers' Operations Booming in Jordan Overlooking Syria's southern border from Jordan, Ahmed Al-Masri is making plans to cross it. He leads a group of Syrian smugglers who risk everything on a daily basis to bring supplies into the country.

VOA标准英语2010年-US States Target Black Market Cigarett

Smuggling costs billions of dollars in lost tax revenues Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 11 August 2010 A truckload of black market cigarettes could be worth $2 million in profits for smugglers. Lawmakers across the U.S. have raised taxes on cigarette

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Outside Kobani, Cheap Passage from Turkey As Turkish tanks patrol the long and porous border with Syria, things appear secure and quiet. Then the military vehicles depart, and two men dash onto Turkish soil from the Syrian side of a loose barbed-wire

VOA标准英语2015--缅甸受边境巡逻船只“侵犯”

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地中海人口走私贩依靠躲避战祸移民发迹 In recent years, tens of thousands of migrants have either drowned, or died from starvation or dehydration. 近年来，成千上万的移民难逃被淹死，饿死或渴死的命运。 But the

美国国家公共电台 NPR ICE Has Arrested More Than 400 In Operation Targeting Parents Who Pay Smugglers

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested hundreds of parents who are in the country illegally. They are suspected of paying smugglers to bring their children to the U.S. Federal officials say those parents are putting the

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VOA标准英语2008年-UN Says People Smuggling Across Gulf of Aden Do

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 May 2008 The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the treacherous Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa has more than doubled this year. At the same time,

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The United Nations refugee agency reports 16 people have drowned in the Gulf of Aden over the weekend in two separate incidents involving smuggling boats sailing from Somalia. The UNHCR says these tragedies are continuing to mount. Bossasso Beach in

3,600 crocodiles rescued from smugglers in S China

NANNING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Police in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region said Saturday they had seized more than 3,600 smuggled crocodiles, saving them from being served as exotic dishes. Veterinarians are providing medical treatment to the endangered

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Thousands of unauthorized migrants travel by boat each year to Italy. Their journeys from North Africa across the Mediterranean can be perilous. As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, there's a top security naval compound on the ou