I posted this on TOP nearly two years ago, and no one cared.

It's well known that Congressional Republicans are prepared to do whatever it takes to defeat Obama's efforts to reform immigration.
  Immigrants children might carry ebola fer chrissakes! Not to mention the fact that those children are gang members.

  So it's understood that Republicans want to deport these illegal children for reasons of Freedum!
  But what Republican aren't prepared to do is defend Freedum if it means cutting into the profits of Wall Street banks.

 Major banks, including Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo, have been used as financial conduits for the smuggling industry, according to evidence in a federal criminal case against a gang of 15 human smugglers and warrants from prosecutors in Arizona, Maryland and Texas.
   “Human smuggling is a big business,” says Stephen Adaway, chief of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations unit for human smuggling in Washington. “And they couldn’t operate on the scale they do without the banks.”

 It's already well known that Wall Street banks are involved in laundering money for drug cartels and terrorist groups, but their involvement in human smuggling (one of the largest businesses in the world) is less known.

  “The regulators and the bankers are not doing a very good job of policing their accounts,” says former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who led probes of human smugglers while in office from 2003 to 2010. “There’s a level of ordinary suspicion that banks and regulators are failing to employ.”
   The 1970 Bank Secrecy Act and the 2001 Patriot Act require banks to monitor transactions for activity that may be tied to money laundering and other crimes, including human smuggling. Banks must appoint a compliance officer, identify crimes its customers are at risk of committing and develop policies to detect and stop such transactions.

 So it seems obvious that if Republicans really wanted to crack down on illegal immigration they would crack down on the financial conduits of it, the coyotes, right?

 But in failing to stop human smugglers from using their institutions, banks enable the illicit and often violent trade to continue, says Tom Welch, who heads the financial crimes unit at Homeland Security’s Arizona office.
   “Way more money is going through than we’re definitely comfortable with,” Welch says. “We’re losing the battle.”
   Although immigration has topped the political agenda in the U.S., neither the White House nor Congress has targeted the role banks play in financing smuggling.

 Doesn't that seem a little curious? When it comes to terrorist groups and tax evasion the government has no problem at all at cutting of the financial conduits.
   But when it comes to human trafficking, suddenly its all about punishing the people who are being exploited, not the people making the money from doing the exploiting.