CRM/LAW C131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Golden Venture, Variety Store, Organized Crime

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C131
• Professor: John Dombrink

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Snakeheads: to law enforcement, the alien smuggler the shetou, or the snakehead is a criminal, a human trafficker. To those who use the shetou"s vital services, the shetou is a businessperson. (myers, Some even claimed that their business ventures could help solve many china"s pressing social problems, such as overpopulation and unemployment. A second strategy is to fly into the united states through transit points outside china. These by-air illegal immigrants must have fraudulent documents that enable them to enter the country (lorch, 1992). As a third strategy, a large number of. Chinese were smuggled into the u. s. in fishing trawlers or freighters (myers, 1992; zhang and gaylord, 1996) 91-93 sea route (as opposed to land or air) was very popular, but declined in wake of golden venture. Working with associates in china, hong kong, thailand, belize, kenya, south. Africa, guatemala, mexico, and canada, she helped create the china-to-