
The more than 8,000 Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica after Castro ally Nicaragua rejected their legal visas will fly over Nicaragua to El Salvador to commence their voyage to the United States, a coalition of Central American nations announced this week.
by Frances Martel29 Dec 2015, 9:00 PM PST0

Four people have been arrested in San Antonio for the alleged human trafficking of a sixteen-year-old teenage girl. Three of them have been charged with sexual assaulting her.
by Lana Shadwick21 Dec 2015, 1:04 PM PST0

The Houston Police Department (HPD) is asking for the public’s assistance in its efforts to combat the plague of human trafficking and sex trafficking that happens in this city. Houston is regarded as one of the leading cities in the United States in this crime arena.
by Bob Price20 Dec 2015, 10:39 AM PST0

The Irish government has been aware that migrant workers have been trafficked into its fishing fleet since 2008, but plans to tackle the problem were shelved years ago, it has emerged. A recent investigation revealed widespread allegations of an endemic
by Donna Rachel Edmunds18 Dec 2015, 8:33 AM PST0

A Qatar military official pleaded guilty to visa fraud in connection to falsifying documents to secure the visas for his two domestic servants. His wife pleaded guilty to two counts of misprision of a felony for obtaining the labor and services of these two women by force.
by Lana Shadwick12 Dec 2015, 7:14 AM PST0

Cartel gunmen kidnapped 21 Mexican migrants that had hoped to cross illegally into Texas. The gunmen had been holding them for ransom for several days in the Mexican border city of Reynosa until the Mexican army rescued them. In a separate raid, authorities arrested 25 other aliens.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Dec 2015, 9:30 AM PST0

“America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted on Monday to say that 700 body cameras would be distributed and issued to his deputies soon. He said, “I will be flipping the ON switch soon! Stay tuned.”
by Lana Shadwick17 Nov 2015, 7:59 AM PST0

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Human smugglers are believed to have left behind the body of an unknown migrant in a shallow grave in this border city, setting off a series of police investigations.
by Cartel Chronicles17 Nov 2015, 3:27 AM PST0

Houston vice officers have arrested and charged a man with prostituting a 4-year-old girl. The arrest came about following a prostitution sting operation where police have been hunting human traffickers.
by Bob Price16 Nov 2015, 6:45 AM PST0

Smuggling human beings has become a more profitable commodity than smuggling drugs. Just one person can command a profit of up to $100,000 for human smugglers, according to one criminologist in the Caribbean. That “premium package” could get the migrant a new identity, foreign passport, legitimate documents, and a plane ticket to the US.
by Sylvia Longmire6 Nov 2015, 7:27 AM PST0

Authorities at the Texas border have busted a human smuggling cell connected to Mexican drug cartels that appears to be responsible for smuggling hundreds of illegal aliens. During the investigation, authorities arrested approximately 70 illegal aliens who were being housed in two separate stash houses where it appears that some of the women may have been violated.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Nov 2015, 6:49 AM PST0

A two week prostitution sting operation landed sixty people in jail as Houston brings focus to human trafficking in the Bayou City. The arrests occurred during the first two weeks of October and have recently been revealed as part of an ongoing statewide anti-human trafficking push by Texas law enforcement officials.
by Bob Price6 Nov 2015, 6:07 AM PST0

A fisherman accused of helping migrants cross the English Channel from France is the latest in a growing number of French people turning to human trafficking. The government said this year alone nearly 200 networks operated by 3,000 people have been dismantled in
by Sarkis Zeronian4 Nov 2015, 7:17 AM PST0

The vast majority of the individuals arrested in last week’s multi-state human trafficking brothel bust were illegal immigrants, Breitbart News has learned.
by Caroline May2 Nov 2015, 12:44 PM PST0

An anti-sex trafficking advocate who worked for an Austin, Texas, organization aimed at helping victims of human trafficking was arrested in Austin, Texas, during a week-long prostitution sting. Austin cops arrested him during an operation that landed 41 people in the Travis County jail.
by Bob Price28 Oct 2015, 7:17 AM PST0

LYON, France (AP) — Organised crime networks are making new connections as they jump into the lucrative business of smuggling migrants, the operations chief for Europe’s top law enforcement agency said Thursday. Fighting them has become a major preoccupation for
by AFP15 Oct 2015, 2:19 PM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas – A convicted Mexican drug cartel kidnapper and suspected assassin will spend 40 years in prison for carrying out a kidnapping in this border city under orders from his bosses in Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz26 Sep 2015, 9:18 AM PST0

The illegal trafficking of underage girls landed an East Texas man in federal prison for 276 months. The human trafficker used the girls in prostitution.
by Bob Price24 Sep 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

A woman who says that she was sexually molested as a child and later raped is launching an attack video against Hillary Clinton, saying Clinton doesn’t stand up for sexual assault victims, and pointing to the number of accusations of sexual assault by women against Bill Clinton.
by Alex Swoyer22 Sep 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

A Texas couple claims that a doctor in El Salvador sold their newborn baby to human traffickers because of his fairer skin. The child was switched at birth when the mother gave birth while in her native country. The father is white.
by Lana Shadwick8 Sep 2015, 9:06 AM PST0

The image of a two-year-old Syrian boy named Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a beach in Turkey, drowned after a failed attempt by refugees to cross the Mediterranean in unreliable boats, has become a flashpoint for the European migrant crisis. It is not yet clear what conclusions will be drawn from the tragic incident.
by John Hayward4 Sep 2015, 7:25 PM PST0

A human trafficking ring in Houston has been busted-up by local authorities after concerned relatives called them when coyotes refused to release a illegal immigrant family member unless they paid the coyotes extra money. The smugglers have been forcing the men to work and would send the money earned back to a criminal organization in Mexico.
by Lana Shadwick28 Aug 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

A previously deported illegal alien has been sent to prison for his role as the leader of a human smuggling organization. Prosecutors claim the group is responsible for smuggling thousands of illegal immigrants into the U.S.
by Ildefonso Ortiz21 Aug 2015, 5:57 AM PST0

The Belgian Interior Minister has announced the creation of a special Task Force to counter human trafficking. The move comes as his country steps up its battle against human traffickers to avoid the risk of Belgium becoming a ‘second Calais’. In an interview with
by Sarkis Zeronian16 Aug 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

One issue that has failed to be addressed or reported on by the media in connection with President Obama’s new U.S.-Cuba foreign policy is that of human trafficking.
by Javier Manjarres13 Aug 2015, 8:45 PM PST0