As many as 500,000 North Koreans may have been to China and back over the last 10 years
Published reports have stated that the as many as 500,000 North Koreans may have been to China and returned back to North Korea over the past ten years.
Source: Andrei Lankov, ” How to Topple Kim Jong Il,” Foreign Policy, March/April 2007, pg. 71.
8,000 to 10,000 North Koreans cross into China every year
Source: Sarah Buckley, “Escaping North Korea,” BBC News, July 28, 2004,(accessed: May 23, 2006).
870,000 illegal immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol agents at border
Source: Tim Gaynor, “U.S. turns to horses to secure borders,” Reuters, January 23, 2008.
Arizon border crossing a $2 billion a year business
In the border crossing area of Arizona alone, State Officials believe that the smuggling business is worth $2 billion a year.
Source: Dennis Wagner, “Human trafficking’s profits spur horrors,” Arizona Republic, July 23, 2006.
90 percent of people crosing US-Mexico border in 1990s paid guide
Of the 6.2 Million unauthorized migrants in the United States, over 90% of people crossing the Mexican border in the late 1990’s were believed to have paid a guide for their services.
Source: Ken Ellingwood, Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S. -Mexico border, (New York: Pantheon, 2004) pg. 85.
Mexico Human Smuggling market: $6-$9 billion
According to author Moises Naim, the FBI estimates that ” the Mexican people trade earns the networks $6 to $9 billion each year.
Source: Moises Naim, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are hijacking the global economy, (New York: Doubleday, 2005), pg. 88.
