He says Emery's political aspirations don't change the fact that he's a drug smuggler.

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Four people are in custody in the US and Canada after a suspected drug smuggler fired on US border agents and fled, sparking a day-long manhunt.

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Only the setting is unusual in this routine drama about a young Brooklyn Hasid (Jesse Eisenberg) who vaults his frustrations and disappointments by becoming a drug smuggler.

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Mr Acosta, who has been working for the president since 2001, is alleged to have passed information to a drug smuggler close to fugitive trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

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Late last year relations between China and Britain were strained by China's decision to ignore British pleas not to execute a British drug smuggler believed by his family to be mentally ill.

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Eric arrived in China in March and two weeks later Shanghai surgeons were removing his diseased liver in a five-hour operation, replacing it with a liver taken from what he was told was a 19-year-old executed drug smuggler.

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Nor do I need them from those who take the idea of punishment so lightly that they demand amnesty for disgraced ex-border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler and then attempting to cover it up.

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