A Woman to Know: Cheng Chui Ping

Apr 20, 2017

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Sister Ping is one of the first, and ultimately most successful, alien smugglers of all time. — U.S. Department of Justice

(image via FBI)

FBI agents reviled her as "the queen of the snakeheads." But in Chinatown, immigrants praised her as "Sister Ping."

For years, Cheng Chui Ping ferried Chinese "customers" across the ocean to the United States. Trave…

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