The Canadian Globe and Mail reported on October 26 that a plot to sell 246 stolen passports was defeated by the RCMP.  When an informant tipped the RCMP off about stolen passports from the Scarborough passport office being sold on the streets of Toronto for bargain prices of around 1,00 dollars a piece, two dozen officers were assigned to “Operation O Pass.”

However, before all 246 passports could be recovered some passports were passed to international people-smuggling organizations, with more than 33 in the possession of people-smugglers in the Caribbean and European.

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Officials from the Ministry of Public Security in China recently reported that China is still facing a hard task of guarding and combating illegal immigration activities, according to The People's Daily Online. The report asserts that the number of people in and out of China has increased in recent years. However, the unlawful activities, such as stealing into another country and illegal immigration, have also become a kind of serious trans-national organized crime.