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The Associated Press is reporting that the human smuggling market on the US/Canadian border is very active compared to previous years.
The special operations supervisor with the Spokane Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol told The Spokesman-Review that during the last two months, Border Patrol agents grabbed 11 illegal aliens.
Lonnie Moore says that total is more [...]

Akwesasne, a Mohawk reservation located in northern New York, is one of the busiest locations in the smuggling of cigarettes between the United States and Canada.
From the Associated Press:
A bit smaller than the Bronx, the reservation straddles New York state, Quebec and Ontario and is sliced by the St. Lawrence River. Border crossers here pass [...]

As the US dollars continues its fall to historic lows, one industry is losing its profit margins as the Canadian dollars gains in strength.
For years, backpacks crammed with cash have slipped north into Canada, followed closely by hockey bags packed with premium marijuana skating south into Montana.
A favorable exchange rate (not long ago, one American [...]

A big buyer of smuggled cigarettes in Canada has turned out to be high school students, according to another report by The Globe and Mail.
Three out of every 10 cigarettes inhaled by young smokers are from the unregulated black market, according to a survey of butts lying on the ground outside Quebec and Ontario high [...]

The Globe and Mail has reported on the increase in smuggled cigarettes in Canada, causing an estimated $1 Billion (Canadian) loss in tax revenue.
The article reported that the cigarettes that are smuggled are not branded cigarettes, but rather, simple cigarettes without a name.
The key difference between the early 1990s and today is that the scheme [...]