October 31, 2004
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Nation vows to punish snakeheads
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-10-29 00:42
China reiterated Thursday it would punish snakeheads who organize illegal incursions into foreign schools or diplomatic compounds.
On October 26, Chinese police arrested 62 illegal migrants, including two foreign organizers, who tried to break into a school in the suburb of Beijing, .
"China, like any other country in the world, will show zero tolerance for these kinds of activities but will punish the organizers according to the law as well as combat illegal immigration," she said.
A spate of breaks-in have taken place during the past days, in which groups of illegal immigrants have tried to climb over fences into embassies and foreign schools
Comments (2)
Snakeheads are smugglers dealing in illegal immigrants. In the US-Mexican border, they are called Coyotes. I wonder what they are called in other parts of the world.
And as you have kindly provided the picture of a chinese snakehead is that predatory fish from china that can walk on dry land and has become an invasive species in the US because it has no natural predators here, I see the irony that the chinese are prosecuting smugglers in china but we have no means to prosecute the invasive chinese lungfish in our own fresh water lakes.
I'll believe it when I see it.
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