And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:49:12 EST
>Subject: American Indians helped a major ring run by Chinese
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>
>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.
>
>``This is the first large-scale alien smuggling operation we have encountered
>on the northern border,'' U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
>Commissioner Doris Meissner told a news conference.
>
>``I am proud to announce the crippling of another large, complex organization
>trafficking in human beings, this one using Northern American Indian
territory
>to attempt to evade the law,'' she said.
>
>The officials said the ring brought the Chinese nationals into Toronto or
>Vancouver using fraudulent documents.
>
>The immigrants were taken to the Canadian border city of Cornwall, Ontario,
>transported across the St. Lawrence River by boat to the Indian
reservation in
>upstate New York and then driven to New York City, the officials said.
>
>They said the ring collected about $47,000 per person, or a total of about
>$170 million.
>
>They conceded the vast Indian reservation land along the river was lightly
>patrolled and vulnerable to smugglers.
>
>Meissner said immigration authorities have discovered no other cases of
Indian
>reservation land along the U.S.-Canadian border being used by smugglers.
>
>The joint operation, involving U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies,
was
>first disclosed Wednesday by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
>
>The officials said the initial tip that triggered the year-long investigation
>came to the RCMP, and that both nations used extensive wiretaps to gather
>evidence. A 1996 U.S. law allowed wiretapping in alien smuggling cases.
>
>While the Canadians dubbed the first phase of the investigation ``Project
>Othello,'' the U.S. officials called it ''Operation Over the Rainbow II.''
>
>Besides the RCMP and U.S. immigration agents, other law enforcement agencies
>taking part in the investigation were the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police, the
>New York State and the Toronto police, and the FBI.
>
>It marked the second major U.S. alien smuggling crackdown announced in the
>past three weeks.
>
>The Immigration and Naturalization Service last month said it dismantled the
>largest immigration smuggling ring in U.S. history, an operation that brought
>7,200 illegal aliens into the United States in the last two years.
>
>15:39 12-10-98
>
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