On 7 August immigration officers in Dublin boarded a Ryanair flight from Madrid and arrested two people, a Chinese couple without papers and Chan Chee Gel.
The 40-year-old woman, who does not have an address in Ireland, was trying to bring the couple into Ireland without passports or identification papers.
Chan was targeted as part of a Garda Immigration Bureau investigation into the trafficking of people claiming to be unaccompanied minors who would apply for asylum and then disappear.
She pleaded guilty at Blanchardstown District Court today and was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison with 23 weeks suspended.
The Garda National Immigration Bureau is now making arrangements for her deportation.
'Operation Doorstop' was set up by the Garda National Immigration Bureau to tackle the problem of people arriving in Ireland claiming to be unaccompanied minors without passports or other identification.
These people were then put into the care of the Health Service Executive from which most would disappear.
Gardaí have long suspected these people were in fact adults smuggled into Ireland by traffickers.
