Every year, Chinese human smugglers, known as 'snakeheads', use transnational, illicit networks to transport persons from China into the United States. Migrants pay fees as high as $80,000, and are subject to exploitation and brutality in the course of their journeys, as well as  retribution upon themselves and their families should they be unable to pay.

While the United States is already grappling with broad scale immigration problems, this particular topic brings the issue to deeper levels of legal and moral ambiguity, as Chinese children are sent to the United States by their own families, accompanied only by international smuggling criminals.

It is my sincere hope is that this documentary may foster a greater awareness of what is happening to these children.  For more information, including how to become a partner NGO, please visit www.walkingmerchandise.com.