Bondi expands working groups targeting trafficking and smuggling cartels

The General Prosecutor Pam Bonni announced the expansion of the Joint Working Group of Alpha (JTFA), initiative for transformed transnational criminal organizations and cartels that encourage human trafficking and smuggling.

At the press conference in Tampa, Florida Thursday, Bondi He warned that “the price of smuggling people are huge” and that deadly networks “become killed by people.”

She went to describe JTFA as a key weapon in war against Organized smuggling networksOften guided by cartels and “coyotes” that benefit from migrants who try to cross the boundaries.

“We research and prosecute their crimes more aggressively than ever. And the joint working group of Alpha is the top of the spear,” she added.

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“These operations were killed by people,” Bondi said. “The cost of human smuggling is huge. So many families die.”

The Secretary-General also described in detail how one smuggling the ring coached his clients, including children who only came to airports and placed on aircraft connecting flights.

“They accused up to $ 40,000 per victim,” she said. “They used Zelle to convey over $ 7 million during this scheme, and I believe they had cash from over 18 million.”

Bondi told reporters to have since President Donald Trump took officeThe JTFA has already accused 56 defendants related to the smuggling conspiracy.

She pointed out one case involved in what she called “a monster” who tried to transport migrants across American Canada border, resulting in mortal exposure cases.

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Other Texas officials on the press “stressed specific cases emphasizing the cruelty of smuggling.

American lawyer Justin R. Simmons, said the Western quarter of Texas children As young men like three suffered the poisoning of THC after traders gave them drugs to keep them calm and “in accordance with that process.”

“Cartels see children like cocaine,” he said, describing how children were treated as a billion dollar trade in illegal trading.

US Prosecutor Nicholas J. The Southern County Texas added cards “and don’t worry if you or your children have access to food, leads or even air to breathe. They are not interested if you live or die.”

Launched in June 2021. Under the then attorney General Merrick Garland, JTFA was created to target the most fertile human smuggling and trafficking networks in Mexico, Guatemali, El Salvador and Honduras.

The working group has expanded from then to cover operations in Panama, Colombia, and now Northern and Marine American borders.

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The JTFA was attributed to over 300 arrests, over 240 judgments and more than 170 outcomes of sentencing, taking millions in illicit profit, vehicles, weapons and property from human organization organizations.