Editing People smuggling (section)

===Snakeheads===
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The name "Snakehead" refers to those underground players who operate in facilitating the illicit transport of Chinese migrants into countries like the United States and other Western countries. (The name originates from the fact that the lines of emigrants sneaking under borders is said to look like a snake.) Operating in an extensive transnational black market, Snakeheads reap considerable profits from their smuggling operations and both are regarded and consider themselves not as criminals but as resourceful guides. The earliest snakeheads went into business around the 1970s ferrying customers from Fuzhou or Changle into Hong Kong. Today, Snakehead operations have expanded enormously into other countries; however, the majority of Snakehead customers still originate from the Fujian province in China. One of the most notable Snakeheads was [[Sister Ping]], who ran a successful and extensive smuggling operation in New York from 1984 to 2000, when she was finally caught by authorities following the disaster involving the ''[[Golden Venture]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DH6AwAAQBAJ&q=international+law+of+migrant+smuggling&pg=PR1 |title=The International Law of Migrant Smuggling |first1=Anne T. |last1=Gallagher |first2=Fiona |last2=David |date=21 July 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |via=Google Books |isbn=9781139991988}} p.4-5</ref>