US announces sanctions on Mexican migrant-trafficking gang

The United States Treasury on Friday announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum seekers with false papers to game the process.
Known as the Hernandez Salas organization, the gang is based in the border city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, California.
Since at least 2018, the gang organized travel by migrants from “countries posing national security concerns,” the Treasury statement said, though it did not specify what countries those were.
However, the department did say the gang smuggled migrants into the United States from Russia, Eritrea, Yemen and Iran, among others.