the ability to follow the money is one of the hall marks of hsi's transnational criminal investigative work. in fact, the el dorado task force itself has over 25 years of experience in complex financial investigations. ensuring our nation's laws are upheld, take full force of all of our federal, state and local partners, we greatly appreciate their partnership. i would also like to thank the great men and women of i.c.e., homeland security investigations for their exceptional work on this case, and for what they do every day to protect our homeland. and with that, i'd like to turn it over now to secretary ross. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon. thank you, attorney general whitacre, for hosting us today. and thank you to all of our interagency partners at justice, the fbi and dhs, for your outstanding work on this case. the trump administration continues to be tougher on those who violate our sanctions and our export control laws than any administration in history. as secretary, one of my very first actions was to punish zte for its violations, and we continue to monitor them mor

be an outstanding partner in the fight against tso so throughout south and central america utilize hsi led transnational criminal investigative units, dhs trained law enforcement counterparts with authority to investigate and enforce violations of law in their countries. these efforts often thousands of miles from the u.s./mexico border in colombia and panama act as an outer layer of security for our southwest border. during fy-2018 hsi investigations led to 34,344 criminal arrests, which is an all-time high, it included the arrest of 3600 transnational gang members, seizure of over a million pounds of narcotics and made over 1100 seizures for violations of export laws and seized over $1.2 billion in current monetary incidents and identified over 300 trafficking victims. thank you for your committed support to dhs, i.c.e. and our missions, and your interest in these important issues and i would be pleased to answer any questions you may have. >> chief provost. >> thank you. chairman cornyn, ranking member, durbin, it is my honor to appear before you today. this saturday, december 15th,

our thinking on how to do this but of the department of homeland security is especially out of the hsi division with these agents dedicated to investigating these cases and on the national hotline, we have seen lots of cases handed over to law enforcement that have really come to amazing results there is some good work being done but also some misconceptions that are impeding us from getting to the next level. >> 888 - - 373-7888. 233733 send a silent text we take phone calls and e-mails even the online chat function but text and calls of the most ways they reach out it takes calls and 200 languages they are confidential and anonymous all different types of trafficking we encourage people to call to get information to find more victims that way. >> with polaris executive director and ceo. thank you for your time . >> and the house has rejected that. so i say once again to the right honorable gentlemen it is very simple you cannot wish away no deal. you either save the european union or you have a deal. so now that is what people voted for is to leave. so if you don't want no deal. what

usually, and hsi. usually, major federal penalties out of the federal courts but now all 50 states also have human trafficking laws that have passed over the past decade or so. and those are quite strong penalties, too. so this is a crime taken incredibly seriously when you take away someone's freedom, profit off their labor and intentionally force them against their will into labor in the commercial sex trade, taken very, very seriously and prosecuted strongly by the courts. >> is there a certain type that usually gets targeted when trying to recruit for these kibkind of things? >> we're constantly trying to remind the country that labor trafficking is bigger than we think. i think most of us gravitate toward the sex trafficking side. i think that's where there's more media attention, that's where there's more law enforcement attention. certainly, that's where there's more kind of public attention, but what that does, then, is it ignores and gives an underreporting to labor trafficking, which is farmw

hsi led or comprised of more than 180 local, state and tribal and law enforcement agencies. due to the success, the border enforcement security task force was signed into law in 2012. mexico is proven to be an if outstanding partner in the fight against tso so throughout south america lead investigative un unit --s which are enforcing violations of law in the respective countries. these efforts often thousands of miles from the u.s./mexico border in colombia and panama are security for the southwest border. dur fy-2018 hsi investigations led to 32444 criminal arrests and including 3600 transnational gang members and seizure of over a million pounds of narcotics and we made over 1100 seizures for violations of export laws and seized over 1.2 billion in currency and monetary instruments. we identified and assisted over 300 trafficking victims. thank you for your committed support to dhs, i.c.e. and our missions and your interest in these important issues and i'll be pleased to answer any questions you may have. >> chief provost. >> thank you. chairman cornyn, ranking member, d

hsi, u.s. postal inspection service. not only to go after the network receiving that fentanyl and putting it in pill presses, but also in who is sending it, what are the companies on this side of china who are responsible for this, and how do we go after them. >> whatever order of magnitude you are comfortable, let's say to the nearest 20 or 50 cases, how many criminal cases do you think are in process focusing on the chinese fentanyl delivery system? >> i fear that my visibility would limit the overall federal government effort with hsi, dea. the height is out there working on this and is focused on it. i'm personally aware of a couple dozen cases. >> okay. that are coming out of cvp. >> a lot of them generated by cvp seizures, then being expanded to address a network. >> yes. >> okay. back to the wall for a minute. we have heard repeated reports in the news about customs and border patrol agents saying that we want a fence, a, quote, fence that we can look through. that's what we need. another one, you never want to ha

defendants to hide the criminal activity and impede the investigation once they became aware of it, hsicted an exhaustive investigation. they use techniques to follow the money that allowed them to document huawei's illegal conduct. the el dorado task force itself has over 25 years of experience in complex financial investigations. ensure no nation's laws are upheld takes the full force of all of our federal, state, and local partners. we greatly appreciate their partnership. i would also like to thank the great men and women of ice homeland security for their -- what they do every day to protect our homeland. but that our elected turn it over to secretary ross. thank you. ross: good afternoon. generalu attorney whitaker for hosting us and thank you to all of our interagency partners at justice, the fbi, and dhs for your outstanding work on this case. the trump administration continues to be tougher on those who violate our sanctions and our export control laws than any administration in history. as secretary, one of my very first actions was to punish zte for its violations, and we con

and we first received a briefing sheet on it, because ote injuries were so horrific, that the first hsis was that it's a motor vehicle crash, a hit and run. >> narrator: the victims were two teenage girls: kayla cuevas and nisa mickens. >> they were run over by vehicles. you know, they used machetes, they used baseball bats. they tooit to a level that i don't think anybody was ready for. >> their bodies were disfigured. one of them was found in the street, the other behind some homes. and there was no apparent motive other than they might belong or be friends with members of some other gang. >> they were looking to settle the score with somebody, they didn't find that person and then they encountered these girls. one of them had apparently taunted them on facebook and so thd killed her and they kil her friend just because she was there with her. >> this set off a chain reaction, because for the ry first time, you're not seeing rival gang members being murdered, and that usually was what was happening. yo nohave two girls, just viciously and senselessly beaten murdered. and that's when th

we also participated in an operation that included hsi and the dea to target a heroin trafficking ring. in these instances and many others, we have seen the benefit of partnering with each other. many of my colleagues and i believe border security solutions must be strategic to address serious threats. according to recent stats from the cbp, 80% of hard drugs intercepted along the border are seized at ports of industry directing federal resources into improving staffing and infrastructure around ports of entry would be far more effective in halting the movement of drugs and guns across the border and simply constructing new barriers between these ports. tucson is the sixth largest county in the united states. our republican sheriff who has the responsibility for policing 125 border miles told lawmakers they would be better. off giving a fraction of the billions it would to build the wall to law enforcement. he said i think it's kind of a medieval solution to a modern problem. many of my colleagues agree with him. demand for drugs in the u.s. drives trafficking leading cartels to seek p

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