smuggling route
Illicit transit path
A smuggling route is a path used to transport illegal goods or people across borders while evading authorities.
These routes—through tunnels, across deserts, over water—are established by criminal networks and shift as enforcement changes: The cocaine smuggling route ran through Central America.
Border agents discovered a new smuggling route through the mountains.
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- borderOuter edge or limit
- port of entryAuthorized border crossing location
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
mule · trafficking · human cargo · coyote · checkpoint · customs · border patrol · stash · dead drop · safe house · hidden · underground · false bottom · cargo · nocturnal · bribes · money trail · patrol
- routesroad, path, highway, freeway, trail
- drug enforcementDEA, drug bust, narcotics, drug raid, interdiction
- borderlandsborderland, borderlands, border, border zone, border region
- lawless placesno-go zone, lawless zone, gang territory, failed state, rogue state
- Central American Bordersborder checkpoint, land crossing, port of entry