Economies of sail: migrant-smuggling entrepreneurs
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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More than 36,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats last year. Our correspondent investigates the increasingly sophisticated business strategies of the criminals who smuggle them. As the planet heats, wildfires in East Asia are becoming fiercer and more frequent (10:36). And why ordinary Americans are falling out of love with their former international allies (18:31).
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