U.S. Aggressively Prosecutes Chinese Crime Rings and Alien Smuggling

At the beginning of June 1993, several San Francisco and New York cases involved organized alien smuggling galvanized the U.S. law enforcement community to prosecute both more aggressively and criminally persons involved in alien smuggling. These cases also encouraged the denial of admission to and incarceration of aliens who reach the U.S. while their applications for political asylum are pending…[more]