National Public Radio - June 21, 2001

"They told me if I didn't pay them $1,800, they wouldn't turn him into the INS, they would kill him."

"They had no plan of giving the brother to her. Had we not been there, she'd still be getting phone calls and they'd still be extorting money and he'd still be in their custody."

"We've had five hostage situations similar to that in the last month."

"Rival smugglers have also begun to steal groups of immigrants from each other"

"The smuggler forced the migrant to perform oral sex on him at gunpoint."