1.   The bill gives the Immigration and Naturalization Service broader wiretap authority while investigating suspected alien smugglers.

2.   The Border Patrol is charged with the responsibility of putting the alien smuggler out of business.

3.   The case will also mark the first time that money-laundering charges will be used in the prosecution of alien smugglers.

4.   This comes just days after three people are shot in Phoenix after a fight involving illegal alien smugglers.

5.   Cuban officials suspect that the brothers were part of a larger group of people who had hired alien smugglers to take them to the United States.

6.   Immigration agents also arrested two people suspected of being alien smugglers.

7.   Lab officials identify fraudulent documents, train others to detect them, and help build legal cases against counterfeiters and alien smugglers.

8.   Seven more, arrested after the penal code was revised to allow up to life imprisonment for alien smugglers, are also jailed in Cuba.

9.   U.S. immigration authorities earlier said that they believed that Munero was an illegal alien smuggler and had charged most of the passengers for the trip.

10.   While many countries in Europe and Latin America were experiencing the same problem, the primary target of alien smugglers appeared to be the United States, he said.