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Homeland Security launches new operation to combat trafficking of migrants across US-Mexico border

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The Department of Homeland Security has recently launched a new operation to combat the huge wave of migrants that are being trafficked across the US border.

DHS said “Operation Sentinel” will be focused not only on cutting off transnational crime organizations funding, but on the actual operations of smuggling. “We know all too well that these organizations put profit over human life with devastating consequences,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters on a conference call. “With the help of our federal and foreign partners, we aim to cut off access to that profit by denying these criminal organizations, the ability to engage in travel trade and finance in the United States. We intend to disrupt every facet of the logistical network that these organizations use to succeed,” he said. “Operation Sentinel will focus on disrupting the transnational criminal organizations that smuggle migrants into the United States.”

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayarkas told reports “With the help of our federal and foreign partners, we aim to cut off access to that profit by denying these criminal organizations, the ability to engage in travel trade and finance in the United States. We intend to disrupt every facet of the logistical network that these organizations use to succeed, Operation Sentinel will focus on disrupting the transnational criminal organizations that smuggle migrants into the United States.”

Customs and Border Protection will be leading the operation, and acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller said that criminal organizations put “profit over life.” Miller said in fiscal year 2021 CBP has already rescued 4,766 migrants along the Southwest border, comparatively, CBP rescued 5,232 migrants along the Southwest border in 2020. “Transnational criminal organizations routinely attempt to smuggle people in groups, but often end up abandoning the women and children, when they can’t keep up with the group these migrants are abandoned, and remote and dangerous areas, and usually left without food or water,” Miller explained.

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