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Leading Senators say the Senate could move on a long-debated human trafficking bill and then take up Loretta Lynch’s nomination for Attorney General this week.

The Washington Post has published a memo sent from Attorney General Eric Holder reminding all Justice Department employees not to solicit prostitutes, even if the practice is legal where they may be inclined to do so.

The Obama administration, ever eager to inject race into a debate in order to call conservatives racists, is coyly denying charges that the GOP-controlled Senate is holding up Loretta Lynch’s nomination for the post of attorney general because she is black.

Senate Democrats filibustered a sex trafficking bill this week—one they put their full support behind the week before—when major abortion industry groups suddenly discovered the bill would cause taxpayer funding of abortion to be at risk.

On Monday, the Texas House passed on second reading HB 10, an omnibus anti-human trafficking bill, with a unanimous, bipartisan vote. The bill still needs a third reading but is expected to easily pass Tuesday morning and will be the first bill passed by the House this Session.

Ten-year Los Angeles Police Department veteran Carlos Quezada, Jr. allegedly drove an SUV with a female passenger riding shotgun as they attempted to pass through the Otay Mesa, California U.S.-Mexico border crossing Saturday night with a Mexican citizen in the trunk. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers used an x-ray like device to further inspect the vehicle, leading to their discovery of the Mexican citizen who had no legal right to enter the country.

The human trafficking bill currently under consideration in the Senate contains a provision that would exempt individuals convicted of trafficking crimes from new $5,000 penalty if they facilitate the illegal immigration of a family member into the U.S.

MCALLEN, Texas – A previously deported human trafficker has been arrested for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol Agent biting him numerous times during the struggle. The assault took place in a brushy area near the Sarita checkpoint when agents saw

After his weekly Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis paused to reflect on what he called the “shameful plague” of human trafficking, encouraging greater efforts to eradicate this form of modern slavery. February 8 marks the Catholic feast day of

While there isn’t much Democrats and Republicans will agree on in the U.S. Congress, one issue that both sides have come together to crackdown on is human trafficking.

Human trafficking, especially of females, is a major problem in Asia. The latest incident in India proves the situation is only getting worse.

A shortage of women in China– triggered by a cultural desire for rearing boys and the state-imposed one-child policy, has created a fertile market for the trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar (the former Burma). Women and girls are trafficked for both forced marriage and adoption.

Two men allegedly approached a woman and her two year old son at a Covina, California market multiple times Wednesday night, persistent in their attempts to purchase the woman’s child, ultimately throwing $100 at the woman as she escaped the men in the market’s parking lot.

Residents of San Diego’s Courtyards apartment complex received a not-so-jolly letter in the mail this December – a letter accusing one family in the complex of operating as a criminal element in the community. The letter calls the apartment’s residents

MCALLEN, Texas — A human smuggler from Mexico is facing up to 20-years in prison after a federal grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and eight counts of transporting illegal aliens for a fateful attempt

Under the executive amnesty immigration action from President Barack Obama, internal administration documents show the administration is considering allowing terrorists, transnational criminals, and anyone else who wants to enter or stay inside the United States to not even answer if

“Ten of millions of persons” presently suffer from “physical, economic, sexual and psychological exploitation,” Pope Francis said Tuesday. He declared that this “modern slavery–in the form of trafficking in persons, forced labor, prostitution, and organ trafficking–is a crime ‘against humanity.’”

There could be as many as 13,000 victims of modern slavery working in the UK, a figure much higher than previously thought, the Home Office has admitted. Victims include immigrants trafficked from countries such as Albania, Nigeria, Vietnam and Roman

A joint study by Gallup and the Walk Free Foundation finds that the global scourge of slavery has now grown to include 35.8 million adults and children worldwide. The landmark 81-page report, titled “The Global Slavery Index 2014,” is the first index of

The opium business is booming in Afghanistan, despite a 12-year, $7.6 billion counternarcotics initiative by the U.S.  Last year, Afghans devoted a record 209,000 hectares of land to opium poppy cultivation, and those crops produced drug profits 50 percent higher

As Americans prepare to vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections, top sheriffs from across the country are warning: If President Barack Obama succeeds with his plans for an executive amnesty, there will be a flood of new illegal immigration into America

Two weeks ago, The Border States of America premiered to great fanfare in Los Angeles. Justified’s Nick Searcy, our documentary’s host, was both gracious with his time at the premiere, and courageous to take a stand on such a critical

Shocking information shows that for years now Backpage.com has been profiting from the exploitation of both women and children through their online classifieds system. But what is even more appalling is that, so far, the site has gone largely unpunished by law

AUSTIN, Texas — While Democrats have been heavily pushing their “War on Women” rhetoric for the past few years, Texas Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Greg Abbott is focusing on a more positive message to reach out to

AUSTIN, Texas — As tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) have surged across Texas’ border with Mexico and amid concerns about ongoing violence from drug and human trafficking by cartels, immigration is all but guaranteed to be an

MCALLEN, Texas — Cartel threats have forced a university in the Mexican border city of Reynosa to cancel it’s classes for almost a week.The Valle de Mexico University sent out a memo to its students this week and posted an

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Federal agents arrested a group of suspected drug smugglers who were carrying drug bundles across the Rio Grande and were being escorted by armed Gulf Cartel gunmen. While drug smuggling is a very common practice throughout the

HOUSTON, Texas — Janet Killough Barreto was on the U.S. Marshal’s 15 Most Wanted list for allegedly torturing children that she had adopted in Central America. Police pursued her for five years and finally caught her in a Portland, Oregon shopping

Roman Polanski, the famed director who admitted to sexually abusing a child in 1977, is about to be honored by the entertainment industry. Again. Polanski earned a standing ovation when he won a Best Director Oscar back in 2003. This

On Monday, Nebraska Republican Senate nominee Ben Sasse urged President Barack Obama to fly to Central America and directly–and unambiguously–tell Central Americans that America will not give migrants amnesty if they make it across the U.S.-Mexico border. “The American people

During a trip to visit the southern border, Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) revealed that he witnessed the Texas DPS seizing a jet ski, which was used as a vehicle for human trafficking. From his report: Later that day, I ventured

AUSTIN, Texas–Yesterday afternoon, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst joined Governor Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott, as well as leadership from the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for a press conference at the Capitol to

U-T San Diego reports that Rep. Darrell Issa now believes the primary cause of the massive number of immigrants crossing the U.S. Southern border is not increased violence in the immigrants’ countries, but poverty.  Issa, who just visited Central America,

Representative James Lankford (R-OK) said that the 2008 anti-human trafficking law signed by President Bush does not prevent the US government from deporting most of the unaccompanied minors crossing the border in an appearance on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil

Anti-amnesty group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) says that Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn’s new immigration bill with his Texas colleague Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar doesn’t fix the 2008 human trafficking law it purports to fix. “Last night we

The central weakness of the Republican’s political position in Washington has been on vivid display as the situation at the southern border has devolved into a complete crisis. As tens of thousands of foreign nationals overwhelm the border and render