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Border corner stores have filed 700,000 reports on cash transfers

12 August 2026 at 14:15
border money transfers β€” El Paso's Second Ward in 1972, photo by Danny Lyon for DOCUMERICA / Public domain (US National Archives via Wikimedia Commons)

A federal rule that targets cartel money laundering has driven customers away from the money-transfer counters at small shops on the US-Mexico border. The Guardian's Lourdes Medrano reported on August 11, 2026 that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, ordered businesses in 30 border zip codes in Texas and California to file a report on every cash transaction above $200. β€” Read the rest

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