...Smuggling is the illegal transportation of goods or people across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. Smuggling by type: * Goods illegal drug trafficking , and the smuggling of weapons, smuggling of historical and cultural values, alcohol and tobacco are widespread * People Smuggling illegally migrants * Human trafficking trafficking of people the majority of victims are women and children, sometimes men which have to be involved into manual or cheap labor. * Child trafficking with the aim being sexually abused or even killed * Wildlife smuggling is a result of the demand for exotic species and profitable trade of them. Travelers at international borders can properly be stopped by customs agents, required to identify themselves, and asked to submit to a search. To combat smuggling, customers have the authority to search an individual and his baggage or any packages or containers sent into the country. Smugglers use two methods to move goods: 1. The first is to move cargoes undetected across borders. 2. The second method is one of concealment. For example, a smuggler may hide narcotics in unlikely places on ships or cars, in baggage or cargo, or on a person. If a traveler possesses anything that he or she did not declare to customs inspectors, or any prohibited items, the traveler can be compelled to pay the required duties, penalties, and can also be arrested. Customs agents can seize the illegal goods...
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...Drug Smuggling Drug smuggling is one of the biggest issues we have in modern America. Constantly day by day illegal drugs are being trafficked throughout the United States. Especially throughout the southern states like Texas, Florida, Southern California, and Arizona. They are the main targets for drug smugglers to get across in our country. Arizona hosts some of the main transportations since it is the closest state to the United States border and it is a major issue in our country that we must stop. There is many solutions we have for this problem in order to get rid of it and mark it off of our list of issues. We can reinforce our borders with more border patrol agents thelp protect us from smugglers , so it would be more difficult to cross. Also we can extend the length of our borders which will help avoid smugglers. Not to mention upgrading our security which can possibly help us notify our enforcers from illegal drugs being passed. There is just so many possibilities that we can do in order to solve this issue. On the other hand not all these solutions will work lets just face facts they all have a chance of failing, but there is one solution that will work one hundred percent. Why don’t we just help drug smugglers deliver their drugs but through another country. What if we show them another country that they can transport drugs so they can make more profit which is probably why they are selling drugs in the first place. If we show them another...
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...Smuggling is when an individual or group of individuals illegally transport people, goods, or drug into or out of a country. Smuggling dates back to the 1820s, an interesting fact is that back then our country were the ones smuggling over into Mexico. Fast forward to a 100 years to the 1920s when the alcohol prohibition fueled smuggling between Mexico and the United States. The prohibition is which led to a federal presence of policing the border. Smuggling does not only pertain to goods, human smuggling dates back to the 1800 when slaves would flee over the Mexican border. The Mexican Army was forced to send out garrisons of troops to attempt to end this. Many illegal immigrants cross over into the U.S and are able to find work. This...
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...Drug smuggling across the border is a pretty serious issue. According to the article “Two plead guilty in border drug smuggling by drone” it states that there are many different ways that drug cartels are trying to smuggle drugs into California the most recent way was by drone. This was also the first seizer that law enforcement for the United States caught with this new way to smuggle through the sky. Homeland Security Investigations stated that they heard about how the drugs would be transported by drones, and have been preparing for it a year or so before it happened. They also believe that the drones are just a type of test run to see if it would actually work. Although the drones aren’t able to carry very much drugs with them because...
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...How branded tea can compete with loose tea providers? And can they stop smuggling of tea? Pakistan has two types of trade ties with Afghanistan. One is bilateral trade set-up as it has with the rest of the world. The other is exclusive under Afghan Transit Trade Agreement (ATTA). The Afghan Transit Trade Agreement (ATTA) contains a number of concessions to the landlocked Afghanistan as transit facilities. The imports of Afghanistan had been exempted by the custom duties coupled with a ‘favourable’ considerations regarding service charges, port levies and handling fees. “Around 70 million kilograms of tea are being smuggled into the country through the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) which only hurts official imports and reduces income from import duties.” Official or branded tea importers should use effective marketing strategies to energize their business and boost their sales. As Pakistan is the third largest importer of tea in the world. They should increase the market share by improving the customer experience by offering them free samples or gift coupons. Official importers should use reminder communications to be in the customers mind every time. The advertisement should always communicate some message or motivate customers to buy branded tea. They should penetrate through advertising techniques to capture more market share as compared to the loose tea providers. As Lipton tea bags communicate now a day that every type of tea user can make tea from same tea bags (light, medium...
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...Economically and culturally smoking is considered to be a “norm” within society. The government has policies on cigarettes that try to help reduce smoking, but in an effort to make more revenue the taxes that are placed on cigarettes are not so high that consumer usage will drastically decline and affect government revenue. The government has imposed quotas and tariffs on cigarettes to help regulate the importation of them. A country like the United States has a high border tariff, which the government likes, because its economic level of exporting is high. Countries that are considered to be third-world or developing nations tend to have low or no border tariffs on tobacco. By placing a tariff on tobacco, consumers lose, but the government earns income from it in the form of taxes. Quotas on the other hand, take some of what the consumers lose and give it to the suppliers who are fortunate enough to have their product shipped as part of the quota. For example, the few tobacco farmers in the United States who are granted quotas by the government earn a lot of money mainly because they have no shipping cost – government pays for their shipping cost. The government knows that cigarettes are a bad commodity but since the government makes money off of it, taxes are put in place. The taxes are not only put in place for the government to make money but an effort to reduce smoking, particularly amongst young people (MBN, 9). Young people are targeted the most because studies have...
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...entry like the airports is crucial in ensuring the law and preventing the flow of contrabands, which may include illegal drugs. Moreover, criminals may use these points of entry to enter the U.S and carry out their illegal activities. The U.S borders and airports have exhibited a vulnerability towards the drug threat. Through restricting the flow of drugs across its borders, the U.S can reduce the availability of drug within its borders (McLinden & World Bank. 2011). Consequently, it may significantly reduce the effects of drug trafficking and drug abuse in the country. The smuggling of drugs and the entry of criminals is an unbearable slur to the welfare of the nation. The duty of countering the effects of aliens and contrabands is vested in local law-enforcement, state and federal agencies. These agencies are responsible for setting up security schemes in the airports. Nonetheless, recent terrorist and smuggling events have portrayed the vulnerability of the security systems in the U.S airports. The security systems employ modern and conventional technology. It thus begs the question as to how effective the security system are in curbing entry of contraband and illegal aliens. At the forefront of the defence for the U.S, active border controls especially in the airports offer noteworthy deterrence to organized criminal networks and smugglers. Tight airport controls may cause misalignment of criminals and smugglers who might be compelled to use less appealing routes. Moreover,...
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...As a member of law enforcement with Probation, Parole, Pardon services and with the City of Charleston Police department, I worked with many agencies on educating people on the importance of being abstinent. There has not much I have not seen as a probation officer, from death, murder, and drug dealers. Through my affiliations with the US Marshals, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, local police department and the FBI on occasion, I have done everything in my power to assist with the drug problems. There are many agency’s out there speaking out against drugs and some of the more important programs are; Drug Court Program, Drug Enforcement Unit, Dare programs, probation officers in general, and talking with schools about Drugs. In my career with probation I brought down some of the biggest king Pins in the South Carolina and I did through snitches developed from supervising offenders. This would not have occurred if I did not gain their trust and show a genuine interest in them. Through this paper I will give you a background on myself, the programs that have made a difference in drug related offenses, give you’re the government actors who apprehend narcotic smugglers, tactics of local law enforcement, new laws that should be in place between the US government and foreign countries and Coast Guard technologies to counter drug gangs technologies. As an agent with Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services in Horry County, SC it was my job to take an offender and rehabilitate...
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...government with over 80% of the price of cigarettes is from the taxes that the government set. This issue has caused a lot of discussion amongst us Economists. The argument is whether or not you think cigarettes are price inelastic or price elastic. If you think cigarettes are price inelastic which means that the change in price of cigarettes is disproportionate to the demand for cigarettes then you believe in Mr. Regan opinion. The price elastic view is taken up by Mr. Macey where he believes that the demand for cigarettes is very much dependent on the price. Both articles but forward two very good arguments with very clear reasons why they think the government should try and stop this high growth of criminal activity in the area of smuggling cigarettes into the country. As we found out from the articles that there is a very high percentage of contraband cigarettes in existents in Ireland today due to the very high price set by our government. Over a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Ireland are illegal. Irish criminal gangs our making huge profits by selling smuggled cigarettes into the Irish black market (worth over €526 million to these criminal gangs) and the government need to do something about. Both articles try to solve this problem with very different views. Reading both articles I do think that Exact A by Mr. Regan has a much stronger case with very good points in this current economic climate that I do agree with but I also would take on board some of Mr. Macey...
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...Brian Piersall Vincent Portillo Proposal for an Inquiry Paper 4/13/11 Border Crime Background: The blanket topic of border crime has always held a great amount of interest for me. I have done a few other papers on the topics of immigration, and the Mexican drug cartels. Through those papers I have learned a great deal, however I have only ever researched the problems along the Mexican-American border. Through this paper I have started branching my research out to include criminal activities along the other border as the Canadian-American border and the oceanic borders. In addition to already having done some research on one part of this topic, there is another reason that caused me to be interested in this topic as well. This reason was the main event that was the spark that lit the flame of curiosity in me, and it occurred on one of the many trips down into Baja Mexico that my father and I take almost every year. This particular incident took place around two to three years ago in some small Mexican down about some odd two hundred miles down into Baja. Back then I had no real interest in the problems that occurred along our borders any more than what I would see from time to time in the newspapers or on TV. I didn’t really realize that there was a real problem with the Mexican Cartels; I like many Americans was blind to what was going on outside of my own little bubble in my own little town. However after this trip I realized that there were problems in Mexico...
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...severe asthma problems and has to carry an asthma inhaler with him at all times to prevent the possibility of an asthma attack. As he is going through check-in, a big, muscular white man in a security jacket orders him to step aside and show him his belongings, especially the asthma inhaler he is carrying on grounds that Ronaldo’s asthma inhaler contains cocaine. Like Ronaldo, many minorities are stopped more often at airports and other locations for possession of illegal drugs because of America’s war on drugs. Why specifically does American society target minorities for illegal drugs? Minorities are more likely to be accused of smuggling drugs because they tend to come from enemy countries, have on average a lower socio-economic status, and are very associated with crime in the media. Minorities are more likely to be framed for illegal drug smuggling because of their association with America’s political enemies. Edward Said defines the Orient as America’s “contrasting image, idea, personality, experience” (Said 87). Since the Orient is America’s “contrasting image”, America has always attempted to put an “umbrella of Western hegemony” over the Orient. This is because America, according to Edward Said, views the Far East as something is very strange and different, or “a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes” (Said 87). Not only does America view the Far East as a place of “haunting memories and landscapes”, America according to Benedict, “confus [es]...
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...Describe in detail the “Zero Drug Tolerance Policy” and explain its impact on drug use prevention. Drugs are substances that can be good or bad for an individual depending on how they are used. In today’s society there are many drugs that we as citizens abuse prescription or non prescription. Drugs can harm the body if they are abused in any way. So, the government decided to put the “Zero Drug Tolerance Policy” in effect. Zero means absolutely NO DRUGS AT ALL. Drugs are not supposed to be tolerated if they are illegal. People who break this law are punished with fines and even prison sentences. Also, people who misuse prescription drugs are punished, but illegal drugs are more prone to this policy. Have you just really thought about what the phrase Zero Tolerance means? Well, this is a term that refers to government and private employer policies that require specific punishments for certain offenses. Today, many schools have the zero tolerance policy for certain things such as weapons, firearms, alcohol, tobacco, and especially drugs. All of these items are things that can harm a person. One may seem more severe than the other, but they are all in the same category when dealing with zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is a policy where the rules must not be broken at all. Even if the rules are broken by accident, ignorance, or other circumstances, a person has to be punished regardless of what the situation maybe. All schools have a Zero Drug Tolerance Policy for students, faculty...
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...Drug Trafficking in the United States Amie Woods Instructor Shelley Lawyer English Composition 122 January 23, 2012 The topic I choose to discuss is Drug Trafficking in the United States. The reason I choose this topic is, because I want to inform you about the social, and the ethical effects that drug trafficking has on upon our society. From people robbing others to families stealing from each other to leaving children without one or both parents, drugs have affected our daily lives. Some addicts spend so much time and money trying to obtain drugs or under the influence of drugs that they neglect their family, friends, and work. (World Book, 2012) I will show through statistics how drug trafficking affects our economy, and introduce you to some low-level offenders that have had stiffer sentences than others simply because of their color of their skin. Last year the United States spent 68 billion dollars on incarcerating drug traffickers, and low-level offenders. (Global Commission on Drugs) (2011) In 1972, there were an estimated 300,000 people incarcerated compared to 2.3 million today. (Global Commission on Drugs) (2011) I started the research trying to limit the topic to drug cartels’, but it was too much information, and I found myself being overwhelmed with all of it. I then changed my focus to the social, ethical, and political side of the coin, because I found it to be more intriguing and much more important. I will show you how drug dealers...
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...Larenea Grant Criminology 357-81 Female Drug Trafficking Prepared for Professor Benny Webb At Coker College April 20, 2011 Female Drug Trafficking Drug trafficking is a serious offense in the United States and abroad that carries with it stiff penalties. The manufacture, distribution, and sale of illicit substances continue to proliferate in black market trades. A crackdown on such operations has become more concentrated in the U.S. over the past few decades. While different violation drug trafficking laws carry different penalties, any offense is considered serious and is dealt with severely. Drug trafficking is widely regarded the most serious of drug offences around the world. However, sentencing often depends on the type of drug, its classification in the country into which it is trafficked, and where and how the drugs are sold and distributed (Grim, 2009). If drugs are sold to or distributed by underage people then the penalties for trafficking may be harsher than other circumstances. When discovered, they face at least 10 years for crossing state lines, but their terms can be extended up to 25 years. When questioned by police, some women insist that they have no idea that they are carrying drugs. In the USA, the Federal law states that first time offenders be sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment averaging 1 to 3 years. A drug trafficking offense may also lead to denial of federal benefits and forfeiture of personal property and real estate (Ehlers, 1998) A large...
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...Musician Elijah Wald, author of Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas recounts an interview with a hashish smuggler living in southern Texas, who spoke of an older corrido featuring his grandfather (2001, 2-3). The theme of the song was comprised of smuggling, but not the type of smuggling most would first assume. This song commonly referred as “Los Tequileros” was one of the first corridos turning away from the romantic notes and singing of the social strife occurring in Mexico. Produced sometime between the 1920s and 1930s, Los Tequileros, expressed a tale of three tequila smugglers who were ambushed and killed by the Texas Rangers as they attempted to illegal import their product across the border. However,...
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