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Trump sanctions are ‘full-frontal assault’ on organized crime at the border, expert says

New sanctions launched by the Treasury Department are a “full-frontal assault” on one of the most violent cartels at the southern border, an expert told Fox News Digital.

TheTrumpTreasuryDepartment’snewsanctionsarea“full-frontalassault”ononeofthedeadliestsouthernbordercartels,alocalborderofficialtoldFoxNewsDigital. TheDepartmentoftheTreasury’sOfficeofForeignAssetsControl(OFAC)sanctionedtwohigh-rankingCarteldelNoreste(CDN)members,MexicannationalsMiguelAngeldeAndaLedezmaandRicardoGonzalezSauceda,Wednesday. CDNwasoneofeightcartelsandtransnationalcriminalgroupslabeled“foreignterroristorganizations”bytheDepartmentofStateFeb.20. Undernewsanctionsannouncedthisweek,allpropertyandinterestinpropertiesbelongingtoDeAndaandGonzalezthatareintheUnitedStatesorinthepossessionorcontrolofU.S.personsareblocked.  EXCLUSIVE:ILLEGALALIENWHOSEDEPORTATIONWASPAUSEDBY‘ACTIVIST’JUDGESEXUALLYASSAULTEDADISABLEDWOMAN Whileannouncingthesanctions, TreasurySecretaryScottBessentsaidthedepartment