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FBI: Scams Target Families of Central American Children Captured Along U.S. Border

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating two scams that target some of the families of the tens of thousands of Central American children who have been captured recently trying to sneak into the U.S., Al Jazeera America reports. The telephone scams involve asking families for money for phony travel costs. “One fraud scheme involved…

Report: Obama Administration Ignored Warnings of Brewing Border Crisis

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly a year before a flood of unaccompanied children from Central America created a crisis along the border, the Obama administration was warned that the U.S. was not adequately prepared for such a situation, the Washington Post reports. A team of Border Patrol agents was assigned to the Fort Brown patrol station…