Outrageous illegal immigration techniques used around the world

Profit-seeking criminals take advantage of migrants willing to take risks in search of a better life, when they cannot access legal channels of migration.

Inventive and desperate people have come up with a number of imaginative schemes for sneaking themselves and others across national borders. The harder it becomes for them to smuggle, the more ingenious methods they invent.

Here are a few photos showing different ways of smuggling people across borders.