Human Trafficking

West Hollywood, California, is slashing its law enforcement budget even as the city has experienced soaring crime rates.

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.

Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu were arrested in London on Tuesday and charged with planning to bring a 15-year-old boy into the United Kingdom so they could harvest his organs.

China’s frantic efforts to distract from the Uyghur genocide hit a new low on Wednesday, as the Chinese Foreign Ministry tried claiming it is the United States, rather than China, that is the “epicenter” of forced labor in the world.

Seventy missing children were found by authorities, most of them in West Texas, during a lengthy effort dubbed “Operation Lost Souls.”

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,

Eight have been arrested in relation to a trafficking investigation concerning a 15-year-old girl who disappeared from a Dallas Mavericks game.

The government of the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia has proposed banning prostitution, claiming it violates the fundamental human rights of women. Valencia’s Ministry of Justice and Interior, headed by socialist politician Gabriela Bravo, is seeking to put an end to prostitution

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched and quickly won his border battle with four Mexican state governors — and the D.C. establishment is pretending the victory never happened.

The Royal Thai Police recently rescued 700 Thais from Chinese criminal gang-run compounds in Cambodia, where Thais lured into financial telephone scams are held against their will in debt bondage, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.

Nearly 4,500 underage migrants who applied for asylum in Austria last year have reportedly gone missing, prompting concerns some may have fallen victim to human traffickers.

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has wanred that refugee children fleeing the conflict in Ukraine could fall victim to traffickers disguised as helpers at border areas.

U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) said he was in a truck with Border Patrol agents witnessing the chaos at America’s southern border where agents had to get out and “arrest cartel members that were coming across.”

The following might help to explain why so many Disney employees oppose Florida’s “Don’t-Groom-Little-Kids” bill.

Liu Jiacheng, a member of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a “nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,” the Global Times reported Sunday.

The effort to fight all of the tragic consequences of human trafficking includes protecting women from “coerced” abortions.

Citing illegal immigration and drugs and weapons smuggling, the Dominican Republic is building a wall on its border with Haiti.

Rep. Steil that securing the southern border with a wall should be the first step in fixing a broken legal and illegal immigration system.

Jeffrey Epstein’s friend and alleged pimp Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his French prison cell in the early hours of Saturday.

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

Pope Francis denounced the exploitation of women in his message Tuesday for the World Day of Prayer and Reflection Against Human Trafficking.

Pope Francis called attention to the twin evils of human trafficking and female genital mutilation Sunday, urging the international community to “act decisively” to eradicate them.

Martin star Tisha Campbell says she “almost got snatched up” by “traffickers.” The actress took to Instagram last week to share her experience — while working on a film in Texas, near the Mexican border — during an incident that she believed involved human traffickers.

Spanish authorities have arrested 63 people accused of operating a human trafficking ring, importing women from China to two cities in Spain.

A Belgian court has jailed the leader of a trafficking operation responsible for the death of at least 15 migrants who were found dead in the back of a lorry on an English industrial estate.

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.

A 19-year-old Latvian national has been arrested in Latvia this week as part of an investigation into a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of two Syrian migrants in Austria in October.

Seven migrants were killed and three others injured when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a house while fleeing a police stop.

German police officers conducted dozens of raids across the country to crack down on human trafficking of workers from outside the EU.

Congress has voted to spend $1.6 billion to help cartels deliver children and job-seeking youths to cities and towns around the United States.

A French government official has accused the UK of operating an economic model in which illegal migrants are entered into “modern slavery”.

The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.

Smuggling organizations this year have netted £58 Million for helping migrants cross the English Channel in boats from France.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 54-count indictment that charges 24 individuals, many illegal aliens, with operating a “modern-day slavery” scheme that utilized the H-2A visa program to traffic foreign workers into United States farm jobs — raping, kidnapping, and threatening them in the process.

Police in North Macedonia have arrested two Pakistani nationals and two Afghans suspected of trafficking and allegedly torturing migrants.

Michigan State Police (MSP) announced Wednesday officers arrested a suspect and found two adult victims of human trafficking connected to the rescue of a teenager in Detroit.

The trial of 24 NGO workers accused of aiding illegal migration, espionage, and people trafficking opened in Lesbos, Greece, on Thursday.

Ten people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with 99 surviving migrants and refugees.

Haitian migrants deported from the U.S. after gathering in Del Rio, Texas, find themselves starting all over again without anything.