Boy inside a suitcase

Eliana Dockterman has an article in Time about a hard way to cross a border:

Authorities found an eight-year-old boy being smuggled in a suitcase into the Spanish territory of Ceuta by a woman recently. The boy was from the Ivory Coast.
Police saw the boy while putting the luggage through an X-ray scanner, they told Agence France-Presse. When they opened the bag, they found the young boy in a “terrible state”.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the nineteen-year-old woman carrying the suitcase was not related to the boy, but had been paid by his father to smuggle him in. The father lives in the Canary Islands and tried to cross the border just a few hours later.
Thousands of African migrants attempt to enter the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla every year.

Rico says things gotta be shitty where you are to try this... (Though it does remind Rico of the Vopo who gave his Kelty backpack a smack when Rico went through the border of then-divided Berlin, forty-odd years ago, thinking that Rico was trying the same thing...) Of course, if Spain gave up their stupid mini-colonies of Ceuta and Melilla, this sort of shit would stop...