And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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on_1.html>

Thursday December 10 3:39 PM ET

U.S. Says Chinese Smuggling Ring Used Tribal Land
By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian officials charged Thursday that
American Indians
helped a major ring run by Chinese nationals smuggle 3,600 immigrants
through a Mohawk
reservation on the border of the two nations.

In providing new details on the largest smuggling operation ever broken up
on the U.S. northern
border, they said the ring smuggled the Chinese immigrants from Canada
through the St. Regis
Mohawk Reservation on their way to New York City.

Of the 35 people arrested in the two countries, eight were American Indians
who allegedly conspired
with the ring to bring the young men from China's Fujian Province into the
United States over the
past two years, the officials said.

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