Five Cuban nationals and one U.S. citizen were sentenced today for their roles in a vast conspiracy involving alien smuggling, asylum fraud, and money laundering. As part of the conspiracy, aliens were charged between $1,500 and $40,000 for their smuggling services, and co-conspirators sometimes chartered private planes to move groups of aliens. “These defendants turned illegal immigration into a multimillion-dollar criminal enterprise, smuggling aliens into the United States to line their pockets and laundering millions in illicit proceeds to conceal their operations,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Under President Trump, human
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