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Local foundations even help would-be illegals with loans or outright grants to pay off the snakeheads.
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And while snakeheads have indeed popped up in half a dozen states besides Maryland, they've done so in modest numbers.
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Such clumsy locomotion does not lend itself to wanderlust, and snakeheads in a good pond are likely to stay there forever.
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That's then showed to youngsters back home to coax them to take the snakeheads' trail and follow them to the west.
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Once they get past immigration at the destination, they invariably contact relatives or local snakeheads for guidance, lodging and illegal work.
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The monied returnees are envied and treated with respect by the locals, as are the snakeheads who do the human trafficking.
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But, like snakeheads, they are only part of the explanation for Morecambe.
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The snakeheads are probably the most ruthless and businesslike of the people-smugglers.
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"Snakeheads are extremely lazy and sedentary, " says Hawaii biologist Ron Weidenbach.
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Snakeheads, however, are really nothing more than common swamp fish.
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But many lose patience and risk their savings and lives by paying "snakeheads" to smuggle them into Hong Kong, hidden in the back of trucks or on speedboats or junks.
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