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Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

Over 200 migrants were arrested this week after Serbian authorities cleared a makeshift migrant camp along the Hungarian border. Traffic along the Balkan migration route continues to surge.

The coast guard said 15 bodies had been recovered near the eastern island of Lesbos after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank.

An Albanian people smuggler nicknamed the “Golden Lion” is said to make a million a week profiting from migrants.

The body of a man allegedly shot and killed by people smugglers was found on a trafficker’s boat by a migrant taxi NGO.

Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five alleged people-smugglers who are accused of using private jets to help ferry illegal aliens from Turkey to Europe for as much as €10,000 (£8,770/$9,983) per passenger.

A report published this week by Save the Children has claimed that minor migrants travelling along the Balkan illegal immigration route have been subjected to “horrific” violence by people-smugglers, border police, and others.

Several people were injured as a result of gun violence at a makeshift migrant camp in northern France this week, as some blame rivalries between migrant-smuggling gangs for the shootings.

Two Syrian children, aged just one and two years old, were found dead after dying of thirst aboard a people smuggler boat.

An alleged people-smuggler was arrested by police in North Macedonia this week after authorities found 26 illegal immigrants in the back of his truck, which was heading to the country’s border with Serbia.

People-smugglers have been accused of abandoning a Bangladeshi migrant the Albanian wilderness where he died of a “brain stroke” while trying to enter the European Union illegally on the Balkan migrant route.

Dozens of migrants are missing and feared to be dead after a boat smuggling them into Europe capsized off the coast of Greece.

A doctor has now been charged over an alleged plot by a Nigerian senator to harvest the organs of a migrant in the UK.

As the Conservative Party delays their own plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda over the ongoing race for PM, Labour has declared that they will see the scheme into the ground once they gain power.

Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis has stated that his country will protect its borders from illegal migration and that it is not up to people-smugglers to decide who can come into Europe.

The EU is now in the “contingency planning” stages regarding a potential coming migrant surge, a Commissioner for the bloc has confirmed.

Police in five European countries took part in an operation on Tuesday aimed at dismantling a large migrant smuggling network that organised crossings of at least 10,000 migrants across the English Channel, arresting dozens of people.

A 19-year-old people smuggler has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the deaths of two Syrian illegal immigrants.

A 19-year-old Iraqi national who was sentenced to two years in prison for transporting illegal immigrants claimed that he was offered passage to the United Kingdom by a people smuggler in return for driving the migrants. 19-year-old Ali Mohamad was arrested

An illegal migrant was killed by police in France after officers opened fire on a people smuggler’s vehicle that rammed a border checkpoint.

A German-led European police taskforce claims to have arrested eight “highly dangerous” people smugglers and 127 others who operated a major migrant smuggling network that allegedly helped 10,000 enter Europe illegally. The European Union police agency Europol announced the results

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed an estimated 600 people have been led by smugglers to their deaths in the first three months of this year, a surge in numbers compared to prior years. According to the IOM,

Two migrants at a makeshift migrant camp were injured after ‘machine gun’-like gunfire broke out early Sunday afternoon.

A number of people traffickers have been jailed after toddlers were “nailed” into wardrobes in the hopes of smuggling them into the UK.

The United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA) has claimed to have arrested a 29-year-old people smuggler they say has been a major figure in supplying boats to migrants crossing the English Channel illegally. The NCA say that they arrested 29-year-0ld

A Sudanese national has been sentenced to five years in prison by a French court after being found guilty of supplying boats to illegal immigrants looking to cross the English Channel from Northern France. Sudanese national Abdulnasser Abdulkarim was sentenced to

Three men were arrested, accused of being complicit in the deaths of 25 migrants who were allegedly thrown overboard from a smuggler boat. 

Three Iraqi-Kurdish people-smugglers have been sentenced by a French court to between two and a half and five years for their roles in a large network operating in the English Channel.

A senior official from the globalist United Nations has slammed the European Union over migrant ‘pushbacks’ occurring at its borders, while asylum claims spike across the continent.

An estimated two-thirds of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel suffer from hypothermia and other injuries sustained at sea.

Five suspects in a migrant smuggling ring have been charged for helping smuggle migrants around the Melilla city wall by sea. 

A Spanish court has sentenced a pair of African national people traffickers to nine years in prison over the deaths of nine migrants.

Germany has joined France and the UK in an operation to tackle smuggling gangs behind the surge of migrant arrivals across the Channel. 

A 49-year-old French national has been sentenced to four years in prison for driving migrants across the border from Spain into France and even trying to ram his vehicle into officers at the time of his arrest. The Bayonne Criminal

Italy has arrested four people smugglers, one of whom is said to be connected to the deaths of four migrants, including a woman. 

A sailboat carrying migrants hit rocks off the coast of southern Greece and sank on Friday, leading to the deaths of at least seven people.