U.S. Tries to Halt Caribbean Routes for Chinese Smugglers

U.S. law enforcement has noticed and is moving to combat the newest route for Chinese alien smugglers -- the Caribbean route -- namely through Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Armed with harsher penalties and better intelligence, so far U.S. law enforcement has been equal to the task. The phenomenon is important to observe from an international enforcement perspective, because the cat-and-mouse game mirrors the dynamics of other international criminal areas, such as narcotics trafficking and money laundering...(more)