Ching. and the Broom Street Boys joined forces with two bay area gangs to off load the smuggled aliens. A San Franciscobased Vietnamese gang was responsible for furnishing the fishing boats to ferry the smuggled aliens ashore. where a Chinese gang out of Oakland had provided land transportation and drop houses to facilitate the aliens travel to New York. Presumably. once in New York. these illegal aliens were to live in indentured servitude while they paid off the up to $30.000 in crossing debts that the gangs typically charge each passenger. Alien s.nuggling is a very lucrative international businesslaw enforcement estimates It brings in $3 billion a year for smugglers. But alien smuggling is just one example of the kinds of dangerous criminal activities modern gangs are engaged in. Todays gangs are organized and sophisticated traveling crime syndicatesmuch like the Mafiathat regularly cross State lines to recruit new members. traffick in drugs. weapons. and illegal aliens. and steal and murder. In just one city. Los Angeles. nearly 7.300 of its citizens were murdered in the last 16 years from gang warfare.
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