{"id":60495,"date":"2025-03-17T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60495"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:46:00","slug":"reason-taking-200-out-of-an-atm-should-not-trigger-federal-financial-surveillance-no-not-even-if-you-do-it-in-a-county-that-borders-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60495","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance: No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/14\/taking-200-out-of-an-atm-should-not-trigger-federal-financial-surveillance\/\">Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance: No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico.<\/a> by Joe Lancaster (&#8220;One of President Donald Trump&#8217;s Day 1 executive orders designated &#8216;certain international cartels&#8217; as &#8216;foreign terrorist organizations,&#8217; a classification that according to the State Department &#8216;play[s] a critical role in our fight against terrorism and [is] an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.&#8217; To that end, the U.S. Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a new rule cracking down on cash transactions this week, but only in certain geographical regions. No matter the administration&#8217;s intent to target cartels, the rule will expand government surveillance of its citizens. FinCEN &#8216;issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) to further combat the illicit activities and money laundering of Mexico-based cartels and other criminal actors along the southwest border of the United States,&#8217; according to the announcement. &#8216;The GTO requires all money services businesses (MSBs) located in 30 ZIP codes across California and Texas near the southwest border to file Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) with FinCEN at a $200 threshold, in connection with cash transactions.'&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance: No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico. by Joe Lancaster (&#8220;One of President Donald Trump&#8217;s Day 1 executive orders designated &#8216;certain &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60496,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60495\/revisions\/60496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}