Sentence examples for smuggling center from inspiring English sources
An investigator from the smuggling center is in Thailand, sifting through computer records.
American officers have said soldiers from the Stryker Brigade invaded Tal Afar because it was functioning as a smuggling center for non-Iraqi insurgents.
In September, 2009, an investigation into an unrelated plot led Mohamed to Oumar Issa, a compact Malian man with an easy smile and angular features, who worked as a day laborer and a driver at the port in Lome, Togo, another West African smuggling center.
The Triple Frontier where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet has long been South America's busiest contraband and smuggling center, a corrupt, chaotic place where just about anything from drugs and arms to pirated software and bootleg whisky are available to anyone who can pay the price.
Farther west, at another migrant-smuggling center, Cabo Francés, the army has set up a base at the beach and strung a tree branch across the only entry point with a small cardboard sign declaring it a military zone.
Europe's strategy had failed; by 2013, smuggling networks connected most major population centers in the northern half of Africa to Tripoli's coast.
He adds that his own great-grandfather — who can be seen in a photograph at the center — was imprisoned during the Civil War for smuggling.
In the Suruc Cultural Center, a chain-smoking, ever-alert expert on smuggling laid out the risks of crossing illegally.
These measures follow Australia's practice of towing "illegal boat arrivals" out into the high seas, and other steps like diverting asylum seekers to remote off-shore processing centers that the government says aim to stop smuggling.
"There will always be smuggling.
