1.   Instead, he said he finally gave in and agreed to smuggle illegal migrants after being approached repeatedly with offers that were too simply tempting to ignore.

2.   The police blame an organized gang that specializes in smuggling illegal migrants.

3.   The syndicates also smuggle im migrants, extort money, steal cars and launder money.

4.   An immigration official has called for tougher sanctions against smuggling migrants out of the Dominican Republic and into other countries - typically the United States.

5.   Chinese gangs are adopting increasingly varied and sophisticated methods of smuggling illegal migrants into the United States, the chief of the U.S. immigration service said Monday.

6.   Turkey, a key transit point for traffickers trying to smuggle migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, is often the dumping ground for duped migrants.

7.   Boat owners who smuggled illegal migrants in were fined.

8.   Chauzy also pointed out that gangs in Albania are well-established, and there is a thriving illicit trade based on smuggling migrants on all sides of the Mediterranean Sea.

9.   The sources said five suspects are being questioned in Lebanon for smuggling the migrants from Syria.