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Border crisis: U.S. targets money launderers to track child smugglers
The increasingly costly and divisive border crisis is pushing federal investigators to crack down on money-laundering schemes they say are being used to smuggle thousands of Central American children into the United States. Agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, are targeting suspicious patterns of deposits and withdrawals through "funnel accounts" held at U.S. banks, according to two federal law enforcement officials who were not authorized to speak publicly about the topic. Human-smuggling rings are using such bank transactions to fund their activities, officials said. In recent...
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Border crisis: U.S. targets money launderers to track child smugglers
The increasingly costly and divisive border crisis is pushing federal investigators to crack down on money-laundering schemes they say are being used to smuggle thousands of Central American children into the United States. Agents from the...
Enrique's Journey | Chapter One: Notes About Sources
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Kids caught at the border deserve due process, including lawyers
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Elite Honduran unit works to stop flow of child emigrants to U.S.
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Addressing the border crisis
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Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S.
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6.9 quake hits Mexico and Central America
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More than rumors drive Central American youths toward U.S.
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Obama to seek $2 billion to stem surge of Central American immigrants
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Biden heading to Central America to address child immigration wave
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U.S. in talks with Central American officials about immigrant children
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