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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday announced the indictments of eight leaders of a human smuggling operation (HSO) at the US-Mexico border. The effort was a part of the DOJ’s Joint Task Force Alpha, a law enforcement task force assembled in June 2021 to combat dangerous human smuggling and trafficking groups operating out of [...]