The U.S. State Department, under President Joe Biden’s administration, has announced a new visa restriction policy intended to punish the owners and operators of charter companies that organize flights, ground transportation, and maritime vessels to facilitate illegal immigration into the United States.

“The policy targets transportation operations that prey on vulnerable migrants and facilitate irregular migration around the world and to the United States,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Wednesday. “Those who come to the United States without a legal basis often pay extortion-level prices and put themselves and accompanying family members at risk, only to be placed into removal proceedings pursuant to U.S. immigration laws.”


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