people smugglers
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People smugglers are those who transport migrants across borders illegally, typically for payment.
Unlike human traffickers, people smugglers usually operate with the migrants' consent—the relationship is transactional rather than coercive.
The term appears frequently in political discourse about immigration: The government vowed to crack down on people smugglers.
Also called human smugglers.
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