The announcement came on the third anniversary of Joint Task Force Alpha, the U.S.'s program aimed at prosecuting human smuggling at the southern border.
The State Department on Tuesday announced up to $8 million in rewards to target human smugglers operating in the largely ungoverned Darién region between Colombia and Panama . Hundreds of thousands of migrants cross Panama 's treacherous Darién Gap jungle on foot each month on their way to the U.S. southern border. The announcement came on the third anniversary of Joint Task Force Alpha, a federal program aimed at investigating and prosecuting human smuggling at the southern border.
They include up to $2 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any key leader, up to $1 million for information leading to the disruption of the smuggling operations' finances, and up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any key regional leader 'involved in human smuggling in the Darién by encouraging and inducing aliens to enter the United States resulting in death,' according to the State Department.
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