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Italy has seen the number of illegal boat migrants landing on its shores double over last year, reaching nearly 90,000 in just seven months.

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said.

Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef Sunday.

German police have lost track of a suspected trafficking “kingpin” after he exploited an EU human rights loophole to be freed from prison.

The average number of migrants per English Channel smuggler boat hit an all-time high last month, analysis of government statistics reveals. 

Gangs do battle with police and each other, leaving at least one dead and locals sleeping on the floor so not to catch a stray bullet in bed.

The immigration policies championed by the anti-borders left and implemented by the Biden administration have greatly enabled the sinister trade depicted in “Sound of Freedom” that profits off the buying and selling of children.

President Trump has been a vocal advocate for ending human trafficking, and his administration has taken significant steps to combat this issue.

Senatorial candidate and mayor of Riverton, Utah, Trent Staggs (R) expressed support for Utah’s celebrity anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard, who has suffered the brunt of leftist attacks in recent weeks over a newly released movie based on his life, as it documents a sex trafficking rescue operation he headed.

Former President Donald Trump is calling for the death penalty for human traffickers after hosting a special screening of the blockbuster movie “Sound of Freedom” this week at this club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) made an unusual intervention on Wednesday to save a Republican-authored bill that Democrats had blocked in the State Assembly that would make trafficking a minor a “serious felony.”

A Democrat-run committee of the California State Assembly blocked a bill Tuesday that would have made trafficking a minor a “serious felony.” The Republican bill had already passed the State Senate unanimously.

Another human trafficker has been jailed in the UK over the shocking 2019 deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a truck. 

Czech police said Tuesday that they have broken up an international ring suspected of smuggling migrants from Turkey to western Europe.

Prosecutors say a man subjected a 13-year-old girl to horrific abuse for months in Georgia, and he has since received a lengthy prison sentence.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on “Examining U.S. and Global Commitments to Combatting Human Trafficking” on Thursday.

The alleged ringleaders of an Albanian people smuggling gang bringing illegal migrants to the UK in small boats have been arrested.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been charged following a lengthy criminal probe into alleged human trafficking and organised crime.

The Greek coast guard said that a ship that went down off the country’s south coast left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned.

A farm in western Michigan trafficked foreign workers through the H-2A visa program and forced them to pick blueberries for slave wages, a lawsuit alleges.

Five police officers accused of assisting human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece have been arrested.

The death toll from a migrant boat sinking off the Greek resort island of Mykonos has tripled to nine after another six bodies were found.

Despite thousands of boats bringing illegal migrants to Britain, the government only managed to charge 82 people smugglers last year.

Tunisia’s coast guard says it recovered around 210 bodies of migrants under two weeks that have washed up on the African country’s coast.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, was forced to face the American family of a grandmother and granddaughter who were killed last month in a high-speed car crash allegedly caused by a human trafficker smuggling 11 illegal aliens through the state of Texas. 

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Now,” NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Julie Tsirkin stated that Republicans in Congress have had a difficult time getting their Democratic counterparts to support their efforts to combat human trafficking, even though the issue “seems

At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been released from prison, but will remain under house arrest in Romania as investigations continue.

The former Vice-President of Nigeria’s Senate has been convicted in a UK court of plotting to harvest a migrant’s organs.

A GOP bill would require abortionists to file a report with the National Human Trafficking Hotline if they suspect a woman is a victim of human trafficking.

Over 20 women believed to have been trafficked into the U.S. and forced into the sex trade were rescued while 200 people were arrested.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on people smugglers pushing illegal migration, promising prison terms of up to 30 years.

Following the killing and kidnapping of American citizens in Mexico by suspected drug traffickers, Republican officials slammed President Biden’s open border policies while calling his presidency “the best thing that ever happened” to the drug cartels and blaming the Biden team for having “empowered” them.

An Italian intelligence report released this week says migrant “taxi” ship NGOs help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.

Italian prosecutors have revealed that smugglers charged as much as 8,000 euros each for a voyage that led to the deaths of dozens of people.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Rosi Orozco, a former Mexican congresswoman, highlighted how bad human trafficking is on America’s southern border on the Unmuted with Marsha podcast.