A would-be immigrant crawls on a beach after his arrival in Fuerteventura, Spain. With a group of plump tourists chatting away nearby, a would-be immigrant off a makeshift boat from Africa drags himself up a beach on Spain's Canary Island. As populations have increased over the past decade so has the lucrative business of people smuggling and trafficking in human beings which is possibly the fastest growing of a group of new transnational crimes. Developments in information technology and communication has aided people-smugglers who now have access to highly sophisticated navigation equipment and state-of-the-art digitally produced false documentation. Taken on May 5, 2006 by Juan Medina
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