Migrant Smuggling Patterns and Challenges for Law Enforcement

Migrant smuggling sometime seems to receive more attention from the media, and from a public concern about illegal immigration, than from the criminal justice system. In truth, however, migrant smuggling patterns and networks are complex and pose significant challenges for law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. Given the wide variations in the scope and complexity of smuggling operations, it is imperative for law enforcement to be both flexible and strategic and to base its interventions on a good understanding of the criminal networks and illicit markets involved. This report is a tentative summary of what is known about these smuggling patterns and some observations about the particular challenges that these fast changing adaptive patterns pose for law enforcement.

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