But the family doesn't have the decency (or forethought) to support the wives and children of the men who are sent to prison, so when Henry is sent up, Karen becomes his partner, smuggling him dope that he deals inside — it's like a regular franchise.
Visitors come every day -- most often one of his six partners, smuggling in a gourmet meal.
His first big deal, with an Arab partner, was smuggling into California two hundred pounds of hash from Lebanon.
A decade or so ago, three or four big Mexican smuggling syndicates became equal partners with Colombians in the supply route to the western United States.
Another partner, Carlos Lehder Rivas, who smuggled drugs from a private island in the Bahamas before joining the Medellín cartel, was convicted of drug trafficking and is serving a life sentence in federal prison in the United States.
"There are no strict controls on highways or in warehouses, so no one really knows how many seeds have been smuggled in," said David Brew, a partner at Brasoja Corretora de Cereais, a grain trading company in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
On one smuggling trip, she and a teenage partner, Katarina, dumped a 10-kilo bag of cocaine while being pursued by police.
The Libyan civil war has weakened the country's law enforcement agencies, some of whom are complicit in the smuggling, leaving European governments without viable Libyan partners in their fight against migration.
Why, team up with your foreign partners to smuggle, of course.
