The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported the federal police said more than 350 coppers searched apartments and other buildings and executed five arrest warrants, three in the northern town of Stade and two in the western town of Gladbeck.
They arrested five Syrian asylum-seekers already living in Germany. They had been paid around $7,400 to smuggle Syrian
We already knew people smuggling to the West is highly lucrative.
"The investigations in this case ... show how criminal networks take advantage of the personal circumstances and (the Roughly one million Syrian asylum-seekers and refugees live in the EU. Germany alone hosts around 59% of them. Across Europe, Syrians have usually been provided with international protection status. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
procedures tend to be long, which is why many Syrians have taken dangerous routes to reach the continent. Around 94,000 Syrians made their way to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...illicitly in 2022, the EU says — more than double the number in 2021.