{"id":37052,"date":"2025-10-30T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/us-sanctions-human-smuggling-network-operating-from-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:11:40","slug":"us-sanctions-human-smuggling-network-operating-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/us-sanctions-human-smuggling-network-operating-from-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions &apos;human smuggling&apos; network operating from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a Cancun-based organization involved in &quot;human smuggling,&quot; having trafficked thousands of people into the United States. The group is also accused of drug trafficking, bribery, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2F1761843895-2325-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"US sanctions &#039;human smuggling&#039; network operating from Mexico\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury&#039;s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a Cancun-based human smuggling organization that allegedly smuggled thousands of people from Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia into the U.S., UNN reports, citing AP.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The Bhardwaj smuggling organization, its leader Vikrant Bhardwaj, and a group of firms are also accused of involvement in drug trafficking, bribery, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>US Department of Justice allowed Trump to strike targets involved in Venezuelan drug cartels &#8211; CNN08.10.25, 12:16 \u2022 1652 views<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John C. Hurley stated that the Trump administration &quot;will continue to pursue and dismantle terrorist transnational criminal organizations to protect the American people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mexico extradited 26 drug cartel members to the US under a deal with Trump13.08.25, 09:48 \u2022 3165 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a Cancun-based organization involved in &quot;human smuggling,&quot; having trafficked thousands of people into the United States. The group is also accused of drug trafficking, bribery, and money laundering. The U.S. Department of the Treasury&#039;s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a Cancun-based human smuggling organization that allegedly smuggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}