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

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.

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.

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.

A vessel carrying over 100 migrants shipwrecked off the coast off the southern Italian region of Calabria Sunday morning leaving at least 43 dead and scores missing.

NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.

A British couple was handed prison sentences for joining a migrant smuggling ring and bringing illegals to the UK hidden in couches.

Police found 43 migrants hidden in a van just days after authorities found the bodies of 18 migrants concealed in a lumber truck.

A youth pastor and a foster parent in Florida are accused of human trafficking and soliciting minors for sexual activity on social media, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) announced on Friday.

Ex-NFL player Eric Johnson and eight others have been arrested and charged with human trafficking of four women and one teenager in Georgia.

A Turkish charity organization filed a criminal complaint on Friday in the name of orphans and lost children it claimed have been victims of human trafficking in the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit the country and Syria on February 6.

73 people are missing and presumed dead after people smugglers put them on an inflatable boat that sank off the coast of Libya.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Republican Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) have introduced a measure to stop drug and human traffickers from benefiting from U.S. tax dollars, even after they are charged with a crime.

The torso of a Chinese woman was found in an apartment complex in Antwerp, Belgium, with investigators believing she may have been linked to a prostitution network.

Court sentenced six members of a people smuggling network operating in the English Channel to between two and five years in prison.

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan told members of Congress the Biden administration’s border policies allow the trafficking of children to pedophiles.

Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage.

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

A 15-year-old from Bangladesh who accidentally became locked inside a shipping container while playing hide-and-seek ended up far from home.

Deaths of migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route to Greece surged in 2022 according to the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR.