Thread: Feds to Crack Down on Illegal Wire Transfers

Feds to Crack Down on Illegal Wire Transfers

By Sergio Chapa
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:13 p.m.

Federal authorities are looking at new ways to keep millions of dollars out of the hands of immigrant smugglers.

For years, authorities have documented how criminals exploit Western Union, MoneyGram and other wire transfer services.

The services have extensive networks used to send bill payments or transfers to family members in the United States or overseas.

But U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Action 4 News that those services are being exploited by human smugglers or drug traffickers to get paid.

Cornyn discussed the issue with several law enforcement agencies at McAllen’s federal courthouse on Tuesday.

Authorities said the families of illegal immigrants often pay human smugglers through wire transfer services.

Cornyn said an illegal immigrant from Mexico may pay $1,000 dollars or more while an illegal immigrant from China may pay up to $40,000.

He said federal law enforcement agencies are now looking at new ways to close loopholes and cut off a pipeline worth millions dollars.

"One of the things I learned here today is how little information that is supplied in these wire transfers…information that should be kept that should be subject to an audit and should be subject to law enforcement investigative subpoenas to investigate these crimes,â€

Love it.

Originally Posted by Texas2step

Cornyn said federal law enforcement agencies are now looking at new ways to close loopholes and cut off a pipeline worth millions dollars.

How about slapping a 100% tax on every dollar sent out of the country?

GOOD!!

Can we start with the illegal wire transfers that the Muslim countries sent Obama for campaign donations?

They, like him, HATE America and want a jihad.

The money came in in the form of gift cards and sent out in differing amounts so as not to look suspicious.
The program they use is like the ones they use to sell out concert tickets in minutes.
Gift Cards are NOT monitored at all.....

IS ANYONE IMPORTANT READING THIS?

Check into it PLEASE and add it to the list of items we need to Impeach this Illegal alien, Presidential FAKER, POS.

The EASY answer to all IA problems.

MAKE THEM PLAY BY OUR RULES, NOT THEIRS.....DUH

Require that all wire transfers go through an audit process.

People requesting a wire transfer must show proof of citizenship! Transferors have to fill out a citizenship form, which get audited by the Feds at RANDOM-no warning!!!

Make ACCOUNTABILITY a requirement for everything! DUH!!!!!!

This WHOLE illegal alien situation could be solved by making THEM play by OUR rules..........

Of course, this all depends on whether Western Union donated to the Obama campaign. If they did, this issue will quietly disappear.

"He said federal law enforcement agencies are now looking at new ways to close loopholes and cut off a pipeline worth millions dollars."

It's not "millions of dollars". It's Billions of dollars every year. Immigrant remittances through wire transfers amount to $30 billion a year just to Mexico. World-wide it's hundreds of billions of dollars.

Shut them down. Shut them all down. If you aren't a US citizen or Legal Guest, then you can't "wire" anything for any reason OUT of the United States. We'll continue to accept IN payments to US Citizens and Legal Guests, thank you very much.

A friend works at Lowes and tells me a lot of suspicious maximum amount gift cards are being purchased and thousands of dollars worth of tools with large amounts of cash by hispanics.Lowes is aware but there is little they can do about it.Is it legit, drug money or payment to smugglers ???

I agree TAX money,gift cards or other items purchased in the USA leaving our country is a great idea including at the border.It will make up for the taxes IA's don't pay for their illegal work here..

Yeah but this shouldn't have made the news until they were able to pop a bunch of them, to get under La Raza's skin first. Now the word will get out, and other methods will be devised around the current method.

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