{"id":89085,"date":"2026-05-12T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89085"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:35:30","slug":"people-smuggler-behind-more-than-half-of-all-channel-crossings-unmasked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/people-smuggler-behind-more-than-half-of-all-channel-crossings-unmasked\/","title":{"rendered":"People-smuggler behind more than half of all Channel crossings unmasked"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/people-smuggler-behind-half-channel-1080039501.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001080039501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A people smuggler whose network is believed to be responsible for most illegal Channel crossings in recent years has been unmasked as a 28-year-old Iraqi Kurd. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/people-smuggler-behind-more-than-half-of-all-channel-crossings-unmasked\/ar-AA22Z9HG?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a0314bd82a941ddad1e30fb7130eeed&amp;cvpid=7293ba5442614dd89b81067b0fb7a5d5&amp;ei=33\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; A people smuggler whose network is believed to be responsible for most illegal Channel crossings in recent years has been unmasked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kardo-Jaf.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89097,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89085\/revisions\/89097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}