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| Feds expose network that smuggled illegal immigrants from Syria to U.S. |
| 2018-04-19 |
| [WashingtonTimes] The Treasury Department slapped sanctions Wednesday on a Syrian man and his criminal syndicate, blaming them for smuggling "hundreds" of illegal im Nasif Barakat and his syndicate, which authorities labeled the Barakat Transnational Criminal Organization, charged about $20,000 to complete the smuggling. The money paid for bribes and for fake documents, including false European passports, to help illegal im Authorities said the sanctions will freeze the syndicate’s assets, which should undermine the smuggling operation. The case has been pursued by the Treasury Department, Homeland Security and the Justice Department. "The day I was sworn in as attorney general, President Trump sent me an Executive Order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "Many of these organizations use human smugglers to bring people across our borders with little regard to their safety or our national illusory sovereignty." Mr. Barakat, who also goes by the name Abu Tarif and lists two dates of birth in 1970 and 1971, was based in Homs. The Treasury Department said his network would recruit customers from Syria and Leb, send them through either ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... or the United Arab Emirates, where they would catch flights to Brazil, then make their way north through Venezuela, Colombia and Panama, then up through Central America and Mexico. That turns out to be a common route for people being smuggled from terrorist-connected countries. The Washington Times has reported over the last two years on a network operated by Sharafat Khan, a citizen of Pakistain who moved to Brazil, where he ran a human smuggling operation that specialized in bringing people from Pakistain, Afghanistan and Bangladesh into the U.S. through the same routes. Khan, who pleaded guilty last year but is appealing his sentence, charged up to $15,000 for his customers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 A criminal syndicate smuggling Syrians into USA - D. of State? Yep - it ('smuggling') was already happening under Obama; this guy forgot to kick $ upstairs. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-04-19 08:32 |
| #1 A criminal syndicate smuggling Syrians into USA - D. of State? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-19 05:05 |