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French court cracks down on migrant smuggling. A French court has found 18 defendants guilty in a migrant-smuggling trial linked to the perilous English Channel route from France to the U.K. One of the ringleaders from Iraq was sentenced Nov. 5 to 15 years in prison and fined $218,000. The defendants in the trial in Lille were swept up in a major European police operation in July 2022. The trial has shed light on the migrant-smuggling business in what has been a deadly year for the thousands of men, women, and children who attempt the France-to-Britain sea crossing on small and often dangerously overloaded boats.

UK and France are butting heads over migration. Is Brexit to blame?

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