human trafficking

A federal judge in Texas sentenced a human trafficker from Guatemala to 30 years in prison for his role in setting up a deadly 2022 human smuggling attempt that killed 53 migrants who were stuffed in a hot trailer in South Texas. Law enforcement officials arranged his extradition to the United States so he could face the charges.

The English Channel human trafficking route has once again seen fatalities, after two adult women and one child died on a smuggler boat off the coast of northern France on Wednesday morning.

Six individuals were arrested across Europe this week for their alleged involvement in a complex human trafficking scheme that exploited the European Union’s Schengen porous borders area to smuggle illegals into the UK.

Boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of southern Tunisia, killing at least two people and leaving 12 missing.

A human trafficking and child exploitation crackdown during the FIFA World Cup in North Texas resulted in numerous arrests and potential victims being identified or rescued.

An illegal alien is accused of repeatedly raping and sodomizing a 15-year-old girl in Louisville, Kentucky, ICE officials said this week.

Former Australian PM Tony Abbott, one of the only Western leaders to have ever ended a small boats crisis, decried the “invasion” of Europe.

A name, image, and likeness (NIL) executive at the University of Alabama has been arrested as part of a human trafficking operation.

The state of Arizona is facing a legal battle regarding a Medicaid fraud scam that targeted approximately 7,000 Native Americans and left possibly 2,000 dead or missing.

A Bolivian Foreign Ministry official confirmed on Tuesday that young Bolivian men are being deceived and falsely led to fight for Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Ten people were arrested during a huge crackdown on the open-air sex trafficking market in Los Angeles’s Figueroa Corridor.

Investigators in Zimbabwe have arrested a man who allegedly worked with a Russian accomplice to unlawfully conscript young Zimbabweans.

Three defendants involved in a H-2A visa worker labor trafficking scheme, called “modern-day slavery” by prosecutors, have been sentenced, bringing the case to a close.

Radio Programas del Perú (RPP) on Monday denounced the existence of a network trafficking Peruvian men to the front lines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with false work promises.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on Tuesday that found “patterns of human rights violations and abuses perpetrated with impunity against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Libya,” including torture, murder, sexual violence, and human trafficking.

A pair of Haitian immigrants have been indicted in Oregon on charges of forcing their migrant relatives to work in near-slave conditions.

The predominantly Muslim child rape grooming gangs likely trafficked “countless” British women and girls to their native Pakistan to serve as sex slaves, the head of the independent rape gang inquiry has said.

Authorities in Los Angeles announced results of a statewide crackdown on human trafficking that resulted in the arrests of more than 600 suspects and the rescue of 170 victims.

A convicted sex offender from Alaska is accused of paying human smugglers $5,000 to obtain a Honduran mother and her young daughter, intending to claim the child as an unaccompanied minor sponsor after she crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas.

The State Department will announce the designation of the Clan del Golfo, a cocaine- and human-trafficking organized criminal militia in Colombia, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on Tuesday, Breitbart News learned.

Alice Guo, a Chinese national who posed as a Philippine national and served as a town mayor, was found guilty of human trafficking Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison.

Saudi Arabia has officially ended its “kafala” system of rules for migrant labor, a system that effectively turned some 13 million migrants into indentured servants and gave their employers total control over their lives.

Bulgaria has warned that far-left open borders groups are working in conjunction with people smuggling networks and Russian intelligence services to facilitate illegal immigration into Europe.

The U.S. National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) revealed that a faction of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, was murdering pregnant women to harvest their organs and sell their children to U.S. couples.

After the UK’s left-wing government stated that using the armed forces to secure the southern border against waves of illegal migrants is “not the best use of the military”, Reform UK Member of Parliament Lee Anderson pointed out that this is actually precisely why countries have armed forces.

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, working hand in hand with the San Antonio Police Department, located 30 missing children. Investigators also opened five new human trafficking cases during a two-week operation dubbed “Operation Lightning Bug.”

Effective September 1, those engaged in human trafficking in Texas will face up to 99 years in prison if convicted. Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 2306 and SB 1212 into law, making human trafficking a first-degree felony and denying parole to those convicted in some circumstances.

Federal authorities in Nebraska carried out a series of raids, leading to the arrest of a group of Indian nationals who were allegedly engaged in an elaborate scheme involving sex, labor, and drug trafficking. In addition to multiple businesses owned by the suspected traffickers in Nebraska, the scheme also involved companies in Georgia and Texas.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been hard at work in the first 200 days of President Donald Trump’s administration, and those efforts include rescuing children, stopping human traffickers, and drug seizures, FBI Director Kash Patel highlighted on Saturday.

Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) introduced legislation Friday to reauthorize and enhance critical programming essential to combating human trafficking worldwide.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used so-called “prosecutorial discretion” to protect an illegal alien from deportation who is now accused of kidnapping a woman who says she was sex trafficked and held against her will.

Four men in Alabama are in custody after they allegedly kidnapped and sexually abuse children in an underground bunker for more than a year. The men face charges, including rape, human trafficking, kidnapping, sodomy, and bestiality.

Spanish police announced Tuesday the bust of a major sex trafficking network, arresting dozens of suspects and freeing over a hundred predominantly South American migrants from effective sex slavery.

Activists are suing Tennessee to cancel a new law that could ban landlords from renting apartments and homes to illegal aliens.

Federal officials say they have taken two individuals into custody at house in Los Angeles tied to a suspected Iranian human smuggling operation connected to terrorism.