The bill's authors argue that the cost is less than what immigrants are now paying smugglers, or coyotes, to bring them across the border.

A couple of months ago she paid smugglers to carry her across the heavily-guarded river that separates North Korea from China.

Officials said the migrants had paid smugglers as much as $4,000 each to help them travel through Mexico to the United States.

The migrants had paid smugglers to transport them through Mexico to the United States border.

The only way out was to pay human smugglers and be smuggled across borders.

Most have paid smugglers as much as $1,500 to get them safely to the other side, agents said.

For the first part of his journey, a trek over the mountainous border into Turkey, he paid local smugglers $1,000.

The refugees in the first group told Federal officials they had paid smugglers for passage to the United States.

Those with enough money are paying smugglers to take them to Pakistan.

Some have paid $25,000 to $40,000 to get this far, and will pay smugglers another $300 to $500 to get across the English Channel, if they have it.