So the best way to ensure refugees don't hop between European countries is not to build fences, which encourages more dangerous forms of smuggling, but to ensure that the asylum system in every EU state operates to the same high standards, gives refugees the same level of benefits and grants the same length of residency.
"We look forward to partnering with the GNA and neighbouring countries to tackle the threat posed throughout the Mediterranean and on its land borders by criminal organisations engaged in all forms of smuggling and trafficking, including in human beings," it said.
That being said, solid enforcement, which takes all forms of smuggling seriously, doesn't necessarily have to catch everything.
He said the operations were unlawful because they took asylum seekers out of Australian waters and towards Indonesia's territorial sea, possibly constituting another form of people smuggling, which is a criminal offence.
Interestingly, he sees both as a new form of data smuggling that will come as we seek ways to avoid an overzealous authoritarian culture.
Yet distress is often what they meet: in the form of criminal smuggling gangs or dangerous routes through unsafe seas, or across burning deserts or after unspeakable torture.
And to circumvent sanctions, myriad forms of imaginative smuggling are bound to go on unabatedly.
In a spiral of cause and effect, new restriction and control measures have stimulated 'innovative' forms of entrance (like smuggling and trafficking), which in turn have led to newly restrictive and control-oriented admission requirements and procedures.
Ankara has also promised to designate human smuggling as a form of organised crime, a measure that would mean harsher punishment for perpetrators, but human rights activists warn that such crackdowns would only push refugee trafficking deeper underground, and that smugglers would try to find ever riskier – and deadlier – routes for those trying to reach Europe.
Depp, 52, and his wife, Amber Heard, were accused of smuggling the dogs when they didn't declare them on their customs forms or provide proper documentation for the pets.
