article_snippet.sent: Tripoli, Libya (CNN)Smugglers lure Arab and African migrants by offering discounts to get onto overcrowded ships if people bring more potential passengers, a CNN investigation has revealed.
article_snippet.sent: A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid bare the system for loading boats with poor and desperate refugees, during a conversation that a CNN producer secretly filmed.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's producer was introduced to a Senegalese and Malian smuggler by an intermediary in Tripoli, who mistakenly thought CNN's producer was a Syrian looking to bring other Syrian refugees with CNN's producer onto boats to Italy.
article_snippet.sent: A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid took A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid to an unfinished building on the outskirts of Tripoli near the city's many ports, where the migrants they have already found are kept until the dangerous Mediterranean crossing is ready.
article_snippet.sent: an unfinished building on the outskirts of Tripoli near the city's many ports, where the migrants they have already found are kept until the crossing is ready could only be reached by walking down a trash-littered alleyway, and featured a series of packed rooms, separated by curtains, where dozens sat -- well over the 80 migrants A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid was promised would be in A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid boat.
article_snippet.sent: A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid explained that the "final price" for Syrians -- often thought to be richer than Syrians African migrant counterparts -- was $1,000.
article_snippet.sent: A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid added that for each Syrian A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid brought with A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid, the producer would get a $100 discount.
article_snippet.sent: So if A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid brought 10, A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid could travel free.
article_snippet.sent: A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid explained how the "discount" was "well known," suggesting perhaps the "discount" was part of the unwritten rules that govern the trade and why so many migrants come to each boat.
article_snippet.sent: Any fears about the dangerous Mediterranean crossing were supposed to be allayed by A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli
article_snippet.sent: laid insisting the boats they used had new motors, and that the Senegalese pilot would have a satellite telephone and GPS to assist the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
article_snippet.sent: A smuggler in the Libyan capital of Tripoli laid also assured CNN's producer, when asked, that if the people became too many, the people would use two boats.
highlights_snippet.sent: CNN investigation uncovers the business inside a human smuggling ring .
  