News Rand Report: Smugglers Earning as Much as $2.5B a Year From Illegals By Dustin Nemos - June 11, 2019 0 218 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp A study from the Rand Corporation shows that drug smugglers and their counterparts, the unscrupulous operators who are driving city-sized hordes of Central American illegals toward the southwest border of the United States, are making a fortune.