Funny headline...easily misread, with “remains” as a noun.
The lede was cut off in the original post. For those who hate to follow links:
CITYCIDE: HUMAN SMUGGLING REMAINS LUCRATIVE
By David Staba
They must have wanted to get here badly.
In the pre-dawn hours of June 5, a family from Pakistan and three women from India climbed into an inflatable raft best suited to floating in a tranquil pond to finish their journey to America with a dash across the raging Niagara.
Counting the craft’s pilot, whom they’d never met before, nine people boarded the raft in Niagara Falls, Ont. With a puttering motor dragging the overloaded vessel — carrying at least twice the 660 pounds for which it was rated — across the current of the upper Niagara River, with no oars, anchor or even lifejackets to protect them if it failed, they made their way to Grand Island. Where the United States Border Patrol was waiting.
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Thanks, so nice to hear about my hometown of Niagara Falls and nobody mentioned the 3 Stooges!!!
mrs