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What is migrant smuggling?

April 26, 2017migrant smuggling

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What is migrant smuggling?

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Article 3 of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Migrant Smuggling Protocol) defines migrant smuggling as: “..the procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit, of the illegal entry of a person into a state party of which the person is not a national”. Article 6 of the Migrant Smuggling Protocol requires the criminalization of this conduct. In addition, Art. 6 requires states to criminalize the following conduct: “enabling a person to remain in a country where the person is not a legal resident or citizen without complying with requirements for legally remaining by illegal means” in order to obtain a financial or other material benefit. To summarise, Art.