The family had handed over the title to their land to raise the $15,000 that smugglers demanded to get Rojché Chiquival to the United States. "I am destroyed, I am wounded," said the younger man's father, Manuel Rojché. Thousands of people gathered in the Guatemalan village of Chicacao for the funeral of Francisco Gaspar Rojché Chiquival and his uncle Miguel Rojché Zapalu, two of the 19 Guatemalans who died of smoke inhalation or burns in the March 27 fire. JUAREZ FIRE INVESTIGATION: Mexico investigates officials, employees after fire kills 39 at migrant detention center López Obrador's comments came on the same day that relatives gathered in rural Guatemala to hold funerals for some of the victims of the deadly fire. pressure to slow the flow of migrants while the international community calls on them to treat migrants humanely and safely.
López Obrador and his administration are struggling with U.S. That shows both some separation of powers in Mexico and the conundrum faced by the Mexican government. Obrador's decision to keep Francisco Garduño as head of the Mexican Immigration Institute appeared to conflict with the federal Attorney General's Office announcement late Tuesday to charge Garduño in connection with the blaze. MEXICO CITY - Mexico's immigration head will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in a detention center last month, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that he will not dismiss the official known for his hard line on northbound migration.
It is a similar to, but smaller than, a charge that was made against Wells Fargo, which paid billions in fines after it was determined that the San Francisco bank opened millions of unauthorized bank accounts in order to meet unrealistic sales goals.Watch Video: Protests after Mexico migration center fire The CFPB also found that, since at least 2012, Bank of America employees illegally applied for and enrolled consumers in credit card accounts without their knowledge or authorization. The bank said that it voluntarily reduced overdraft fees and eliminated all non-sufficient fund fees in the first half of last year.īank of America also offered people cash rewards and bonus points when signing up for a card, but the CFPB said the bank illegally withheld promised credit card account bonuses. Brian Moynihan, the bank’s CEO and chairman, told The Associated Press in 2022 that under these new policies, overdraft fee income was down 90% from 2021. The bank ended this practice last year, but will still have to repay customers who got charged before the policy was changed.īofA has been cutting down on its reliance on overdraft fee revenue for more than a decade, and cut how much it charges customers for an overdraft to $15 last year. The business, who hasn’t been paid, often would recharge the customer’s account, resulting in another $35 non-sufficient funds fee. If a customer had too low of a balance to cover the transaction, it would be declined and BofA would charge the customer a $35 fee. The fees often came when customers had routine monthly transactions, like a gym membership. The agency determined that the bank double-dipped by allowing fees to be repeatedly charged for the same transaction. Part of the fines and penalties come because Bank of America had a policy of charging customers $35 after the bank declined a transaction because the customer did not have enough funds in their account, the CFPB said.
Banks such as BofA, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and others have been a target for the bureau under the Biden administration. “These practices are illegal and undermine customer trust.”Įmpowered by a broad mandate from the White House, Chopra and the bureau have focused heavily in the past year on the issue of “ junk fees ” - fees charged to Americans that are often seen as unnecessary or exploitative by banks, debt collectors, airlines and concert venues. “Bank of America wrongfully withheld credit card rewards, double-dipped on fees, and opened accounts without consent,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, in a statement. NEW YORK (AP) - Bank of America will reimburse customers more than $100 million and pay $150 million in fines for “double-dipping” on overdraft fees, withholding reward bonuses on credit cards and opening accounts without customer consent.Ĭombined, it is one of the highest financial penalties in years against Bank of America, which has largely spent the last 15 years trying to clean up its reputation and market itself to the public as a bank focused on financial health and not on overdraft fee income and financial trickery.īofA must refund $100 million to customers, pay $90 million in penalties to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and $60 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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