Monday, October 10, 2005

Illegal immigration - Decapitating the snakeheads / Economist, 6 Oct 2005

http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4488653&tranMode=none
"IN AMERICA, they are called coyotes; in China, snakeheads. Whether they be wild dogs or serpents, people-smugglers are a thriving species with no shortage of prey. They herd Mexican hopefuls over the parched expanses of the Arizona desert; they pack Chinese immigrants into airless crates on transpacific container ships; and they ferry Africans across the Mediterranean, evading Italian coastal patrols."