The Department of Justice on Friday announced it has created a tip line to assist its Anticorruption Task Force in fighting corruption in three key Central American countries.

The development is the latest in response to a President Joe Biden executive order in February aimed at managing migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The creation of the tip line means that now “anyone with information about corrupt actors in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who are violating U.S. laws or moving proceeds of their crimes in or through the United States may now report the conduct in Spanish or English,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in a press release.

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