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Border patrol agents in Tucson, Arizona, arrested more human smugglers attempting to traffic illegal migrants in the trunks of vehicles. There have been two such incidents in the last several days. On April 16, a driver attempted to avoid detection at

A federal district judge in San Antonio has issued an order stopping a Texas law criminalizing the harboring of illegal aliens, at least for now. The judge issued the preliminary injunction in MALDEF’s (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) lawsuit challenging Texas House Bill 11, a law which open border advocates are fighting because they say it improperly targets illegal alien shelters and those who rent to illegal aliens.

Thousands of Cuban nationals who managed to escape the island and reach Central America are now stranded in Costa Rica and Panama, blocked by the leftist government in Nicaragua from moving north towards America but unable to stay where they are.

BEIRUT (AP) — Back in Syria, the young women were told they would get well-paid jobs at restaurants and hotels in Lebanon. But when they arrived, their belongings and mobile phones were taken away, and the women were locked up

A man arrested twenty-four times for smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S. was finally sentenced to a jail term, court records reveal.

A man told a woman in Texas that he loved her and was going to marry her and then forced her into prostitution. This week he was sentenced to forty years in prison for trafficking of persons for prostitution.

A Dallas, Texas, man now stands accused of luring a 15-year-old Louisiana girl into prostitution. The prostitution began after he raped the young girl, according to Dallas police.

A new bill to swiftly return illegal immigrant minors to their home countries has been introduced by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Two 19-year-old men have been charged in Dallas, Texas, with forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution against her will. The girl eventually escaped their captivity.

An immigrant living in Michigan has been arrested for harboring five illegal immigrants whose bodies were discovered after a house fire, authorities say.

Over 1,000 human rights protesters gathered at the Sunnylands retreat in Rancho Mirage on Monday, where President Barack Obama has been hosting the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations ) summit, to oppose Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 35-year dictatorial rule.

Two alleged human traffickers were arrested last week after a 15-year old’s concerned family members sparked Orange County officials to conduct a three-day investigation.

A 21-year-old Syrian man who smuggles migrants across the Mediterranean from Turkey to Greece at $580 a head says that he is a humanitarian who only wants to help people. “I am doing God’s work,” he says, while collecting cash

The European Union’s police agency — Europol — yesterday said over 10,000 child migrants have gone missing after registering with state authorities, and fears gangs may be exploiting many for sex work and slavery. According to a Europol spokesman the vulnerable child migrants have

An illegal immigrant has been arrested and charged in a case of child abuse that police say “shocks the soul.”

(AFP) – A French court on Wednesday sent a 41-year-old British woman to jail for attempting to sneak a young Syrian migrant into Britain. The woman was handed a one-year sentence, with nine months of the term suspended, for hiding

Police in Arizona made a shocking discovery in a closet in the apartment of a Hispanic couple when a three-year-old girl was found malnourished, bound in duct tape, and stuffed into a cloth bag.

A new article appearing Friday in Digital Journal and Business Insider states that of the estimated 30 million persons held in slavery today, seventy percent are female and fifty percent are children. Writer Kyle Ashmead notes that in absolute figures,

A man from Dallas, Texas, will spend the next 326 months in a federal prison following his conviction and sentencing for sex trafficking a young woman with known diminished mental capacities.

Migrants are being successfully smuggled into the UK disguised as ferry staff, an investigation has revealed. Belgian authorities have said that the scheme likely requires many people to be ‘in the know’ to make it work. An undercover reporter posing

Human traffickers have used work-visas and fiancé visas during the last decade to sneak people — including prostitutes — into the U.S., according to an audit from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.

The centre-left government of Italy has announced plans to ditch laws criminalising undocumented illegal immigrants by direct decree. Opponents have already predicted an “invasion”. Having been criminalised by Silvio Berlusconi’s government back in 2009, and in spite of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe,

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Eighteen people have appeared in court in France accused of people smuggling in relation to at least 127 Albanians seeking to reach Britain. Prosecutors are seeking lengthy jail terms for a number of the accused, who are said to have

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.

A crackdown operation by the Turkish coast guard saw the arrests of around 1,300 migrants and three suspected people smugglers yesterday, just one day after Turkey reached a political deal with the European Union (EU)  to stem the flow of migrants.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.