Since the scheme is so restricted, thousands of other Syrians have independently made their way to the UK, and at great personal cost – paying out huge sums to traffickers, smuggling themselves in lorries from Calais, or risking their lives in unseaworthy ships across the Mediterranean.
Most of those on board are, at a minimum, likely to be arrested and charged with illegal migration – or the more serious offence of people smuggling.
Most people have to trim their views at one time or another, though I have watched journalists smuggling dissenting opinions into even the Murdoch press with admiration for years.
Greste has taken the risk of smuggling out letters from prison.
One fugitive, Ahmed Kamran, 29, is charged with smuggling over 100 live animals – including giraffes and impalas – from Tanzania's Kilimanjaro airport to Qatar on a military airplane.
Morison, originally from Melbourne, said the original report mentioned only that some members of the Thai military were involved in smuggling Muslim Rohingya boat people.
Three people were arrested and more than eight tonnes of marijuana and 147kg of cocaine seized in connection with the "super tunnel", which they said had been closed before it was used for smuggling.
A security officer is facing a prison sentence for smuggling a camera into a high-security psychiatric hospital in an attempt to take photographs of the serial killer Ian Brady and sell them to the News of the World.
Justice minister Michael Keenan reports the Australian Federal Police charged a 42-year-old man with people smuggling following his extradition from Germany.
Later that year, Grosics was accused of smuggling goods into his country, and banned from football for a year.
He is also what Raúl Benitez, a Mexican security expert, calls "the king of tunnels and drains".In the 1980s Mr Guzmán perfected the art of smuggling cocaine across the Mexico-United States border through a tunnel, opened hydraulically by a lever in a toilet.
