Martin star Tisha Campbell says she “almost got snatched up” by “traffickers.” The actress took to Instagram last week to share her experience — while working on a film in Texas, near the Mexican border — during an incident that she believed involved human traffickers.
A Spanish court has sentenced a pair of African national people traffickers to nine years in prison over the deaths of nine migrants.
Germany has joined France and the UK in an operation to tackle smuggling gangs behind the surge of migrant arrivals across the Channel.
Spanish authorities have arrested 63 people accused of operating a human trafficking ring, importing women from China to two cities in Spain.
A 49-year-old French national has been sentenced to four years in prison for driving migrants across the border from Spain into France and even trying to ram his vehicle into officers at the time of his arrest. The Bayonne Criminal
A Belgian court has jailed the leader of a trafficking operation responsible for the death of at least 15 migrants who were found dead in the back of a lorry on an English industrial estate.
Italy has arrested four people smugglers, one of whom is said to be connected to the deaths of four migrants, including a woman.
At least 16 people died after a migrant boat capsized in the Aegean Sea late Friday, bringing the three-day death toll to at least 30.
A sailboat carrying migrants hit rocks off the coast of southern Greece and sank on Friday, leading to the deaths of at least seven people.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has demanded a sentence of at least 15 years for alleged people-trafficker Vo Van Hong, who is accused of being connected to the deaths of 39 people in a truck in southern England in 2019.
A 19-year-old Latvian national has been arrested in Latvia this week as part of an investigation into a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of two Syrian migrants in Austria in October.
Seven migrants were killed and three others injured when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a house while fleeing a police stop.
The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) has confirmed reports that people-smugglers are now advertising crossings from Russia to Finland to migrants, as many abandon attempts to enter the European Union from Belarus in the face of strong border enforcement by Poland and the Baltic States.
German police officers conducted dozens of raids across the country to crack down on human trafficking of workers from outside the EU.
Congress has voted to spend $1.6 billion to help cartels deliver children and job-seeking youths to cities and towns around the United States.
A French government official has accused the UK of operating an economic model in which illegal migrants are entered into “modern slavery”.
CALAIS, France (AP) – The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant activity after 27 people died when their overcrowded, inflatable boat sank en route to Britain, the deadliest migration
The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.
Smuggling organizations this year have netted £58 Million for helping migrants cross the English Channel in boats from France.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 54-count indictment that charges 24 individuals, many illegal aliens, with operating a “modern-day slavery” scheme that utilized the H-2A visa program to traffic foreign workers into United States farm jobs — raping, kidnapping, and threatening them in the process.
Police in North Macedonia have arrested two Pakistani nationals and two Afghans suspected of trafficking and allegedly torturing migrants.
Michigan State Police (MSP) announced Wednesday officers arrested a suspect and found two adult victims of human trafficking connected to the rescue of a teenager in Detroit.
The trial of 24 NGO workers accused of aiding illegal migration, espionage, and people trafficking opened in Lesbos, Greece, on Thursday.
Greek authorities say seven migrants have been killed and eight others injured after the vehicle they were traveling in lost control.
Five foreign nationals running a London-based migrant-smuggling network have been convicted for facilitating the illegal entry of 69 Albanians, who were later all released from charges on a technicality, in November 2020.
Ten people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with 99 surviving migrants and refugees.
Haitian migrants deported from the U.S. after gathering in Del Rio, Texas, find themselves starting all over again without anything.
Two men in Arkansas have admitted raping a six-year-old child after hospital workers found she had multiple sexually transmitted diseases, the New York Post reported Monday.
Foreign nationals including a German and two Swedes have been arrested for aiding attempts to enter Poland illegally as the country’s Belarus border crisis continues.
A father in Spokane, Washington, has been accused of killing his daughter’s boyfriend whom he believes sold her into sex trafficking in Seattle in 2020.
BERLIN (AP) — German federal police apprehended 23 migrants along the German-Polish border on Sunday morning and detained two suspected traffickers, German news agency dpa reported.
Law enforcement officials in Vermont rescued three women who were padlocked inside an apartment. Officials believe the women were being held against their will in a human trafficking scheme.
The Netherlands placed an Eritrean on the most-wanted list, intendingto prosecute for alleged involvement in large-scale human trafficking.
Twelve Nigerian men and two women were sentenced between two and nine years by a French court for trafficking at least forty women for sex, often using witchcraft and voodoo beliefs to control their victims.
In an effort to clamp down on human trafficking, Europol raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, along with social service partners announced the results of a recent anti-human trafficking operation in Ohio.
More than one hundred visitors and residents in the Texas border city of McAllen attended a rally and march to the border wall to shed light on the dangers of child trafficking. One guest speaker at the event, Karla Jacinto, recounted her story as a victim of child trafficking at the age of 12.
The Wall Street Journal claims that tech giant Apple threatened to remove Facebook from its App Store in 2019 following reports of human trafficking taking place across the social media giant’s platform.
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that internal Facebook documents reveal that the company was aware of drug cartels and human trafficking on its platform and failed to take appropriate action against them.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.
