Two dozen Chinese nabbed in smuggling bust

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement reaffirmed its commitment to fight against human smuggling days after local authorities arrested 24 Chinese nationals who tried to illegally enter Guam on a boat.

"Human smuggling is a dangerous, multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise that puts those involved at high risk," said Wayne Wills, the special agent who oversees customs investigative activities in Hawaii, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Wills added that US customs is committed to working with its partners in relevant departments to "not only disrupt this kind of activity, but to identify and dismantle the criminal organizations behind it", reported the local newspaper Mariana Variety.