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A sex trafficking operation during the recent Las Vegas Grand Prix yielded huge results for the city’s law enforcement officers cracking down on the problem.

German police arrested two men following raids targeting organized migrant smuggling in Berlin and the northern state of Lower Saxony.

A boat carrying migrants capsized off the Turkish Aegean coastal province of Izmir on Monday, killing at least five people.

Serbian police said Friday they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown.

A prostitute in Columbus, Ohio, is being described as a “serial killer” as she faces several counts of murder.

Three people were killed and one more injured during a raging hours-long battle between migrant smuggling gangs at the Serbia-Hungary border.

Police in Cyprus said Tuesday they had arrested 10 Syrian men in an operation that has dismantled a people smuggling ring bringing migrants.

The Tunisian terrorist who killed two people in a shooting in Brussels reportedly entered Europe by a people smuggler migrant boat in 2011.

Australian Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on abuse of Australia’s visa system, which he said has enabled human trafficking and other organized criminal activities.

One hundred and sixty people have been charged following a human trafficking crackdown across the state of Ohio.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn accused the HHS of withholding information regarding some 85,000 migrant children with whom the agency had lost contact.

More than 2,500 illegal boat migrants have drowned to death or have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the U.N. reported.

A number of illegal aliens were arrested in a human trafficking sting operation in Polk County, Florida, this month, local law enforcement announced.

Ohio officials are deeply concerned, as more than 1,000 children have been reported missing so far in 2023.

Police in Germany found more than 100 Syrian citizens inside apartments and other buildings that were searched Tuesday.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday for hypocrisy on the issue of mass migration, charging open-borders advocates with spreading “chaos,” making human traffickers rich, and bringing the evil of slavery back into the world.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni vowed “extraordinary measures” to deal with the migrant crisis, including calling anew for a naval blockade.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance will hold a hearing on the trafficking and exploitation of children on Wednesday.

Humanitarian concern on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after more than 5,000 people arrived in one day on smugglers boats.

The communist Castro regime in Cuba announced on Monday it is working to “neutralize and dismantle” an alleged human trafficking network that recruits Cuban citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

The United Nations on Tuesday issued a report on the brutal treatment of people forced to work in online and telephone scam centers across Southeast Asia.

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.

Greek authorities said Sunday they had safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos.

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.

A report published by India’s Union Home Ministry last week revealed that over a million women and girls disappeared between 2019 and 2021. 250,000 of the disappearances involved girls under the age of 18.

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.

One in three victims of human trafficking in Italy are children, with many being forced into farm labour and others being sold for sex.

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.