But then, all too often, the owners vanish when the company runs into debt.A seafarers' welfare officer says the situation is complicated by smuggling.
You feel the dread and confusion of the inhabitants, and you also observe their intuitive, futile attempts to master the situation -- circulating underground newspapers, smuggling contraband through the walls and quietly arming themselves for resistance.
ICE spokeswoman Marsha Catron defended the seizure, saying in a statement "the situation was indicative of bulk cash smuggling" and that Guzman consented by signing a waiver for the money.
As always, ridiculous situations -- in this case involving Chinese gangsters who are smuggling illegal aliens -- serve as the connective between fireballs.
"There is chaos, there is weapons smuggling and unknown individuals fleeing," the president said of the situation around the border.
The situation is no better in other countries hit by wildlife smuggling, like Mexico.
"The problem with these types of situations is that we don't know who wants to smuggle the syrup back home and who just wants to taste it, eh?" said an ex-Mountie who wished to remain anonymous.
The Syrian ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, rejected the American position, noting that the latest United Nations situation report presented to the Security Council on Wednesday had cited no evidence of such weapons smuggling.
Human smuggling operations, the kind Trump said his policies would put out of business, are capitalizing on the situation created by the administration's asylum policies.
"From the bullet hole in the wall above the child playing on his outdated computer in a middle-class home, to the couple having dinner sipping Coca-Cola smuggled in from Egypt, the situation in Gaza — the war, the blockade, Hamas — touches everyone," she said.
