DHS to prevent companies associated with smuggling from obtaining insurance
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday announced an expansion to its anti-human smuggling operation with a new partnership that seeks to prevent companies associated with smuggling from obtaining insurance for their commercial operations.
The joint effort by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a network of more than 1,200 insurance companies, will fall under the Biden administration's Operation Sentinel targeting transnational criminal organizations involved in smuggling migrants, according to a CBP press release.
CBP said Tuesday that through the partnership, the agency will determine if a company or individual is involved in smuggling operations, after which NICB will tell its member companies that the corporation or person should be suspended or barred from receiving insurance.
The effort comes as CBP said it is looking to investigate “ whether to exclude from Federal programs, through actions such as suspension and/or debarment, any such persons who are not presently responsible,” according to the press release.
