human trafficking

A pair of illegal aliens accused of sex trafficking a missing teen girl in Palm Beach County, Florida, were both released into the United States by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Search off Greek island of Samos recovers bodies of two people reported missing overnight after a boat carrying 24 migrants ran into trouble.

The Polk County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office has arrested nearly 160 human trafficking suspects, some cases involving children, including 25 illegal aliens from Cuba, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. 

An alleged member of the Tren de Aragua is facing human trafficking charges after she reportedly prostituted a passed-out woman after giving her drugs. The suspected gang member is one of several Venezuelan migrants arrested after the takeover of the Gateway Hotel in El Paso, Texas.

A group of 75 migrants crossing to Europe from North Africa has been rescued from a crippled boat south of the island of Crete.

A multi-agency raid on an apartment complex in San Antonio, Texas, led to the arrest of a known Tren de Aragua gang enforcer, according to San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus. Police arrested four other confirmed TdA gang members and 15 suspected members.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for increased international effort to combat human trafficking networks engaging in child sex slavery and other forms of human bondage during her address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn spoke about the trafficking and drug crises thanks to the open border under the Biden-Harris administration.

Donald Trump spotlighted the government’s failure to safeguard many young migrants admitted via the “Unaccompanied Alien Child” program.

At least 12 people, mostly women, have been killed in an unseaworthy boat attempting to gain access to the United Kingdom’s southern border.

Smugglers ferrying migrants from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands have in two cases adopted the new and dangerous tactic of knocking some passengers off their speedboats into the sea to avoid capture by pursuing coast guards, Greek authorities say.

The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants that rammed into a patrol boat.

Four Michigan men, including a high school teacher, have been arrested after they were caught in a sting operation allegedly sending explicit images to or soliciting people they thought were underage girls online.

Fourteen people were arrested and 10 people were rescued as part of a human trafficking sting at a San Diego, California Comic-Con event over the past weekend.

Serbia lies on the Balkan migrant route, where people smugglers facilitate border crossings for people seeking to reach Western Europe.

A group of young people walking home from a music festival run down by a smuggler’s car trying to outrun police. 

A California bill that would increase penalties for child sex trafficking and the solicitation of sex from minors has received backlash from activists claiming it would unfairly affect the LGBTQ community.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) will conduct a roundtable on the Biden administration’s Unaccompanied Children program and how it has failed to protect migrant children from being exploited and trafficked.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop using hoodwinked Indian nationals as cannon fodder for his brutal invasion of Ukraine, the feat occurring at a private dinner the two attended Monday night.

The House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations will hold a hearing reviewing the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report on Tuesday, July 9.

Police believe there may have been human trafficking at play in a case involving a man accused of murdering a woman and her daughter.

The Mexican government has funded a lawsuit for illegal migrants in Florida who are facing human smuggling charges and prison time under Gov. Ron DeSantis’s law curbing illegal migration.

Over 500 thought to have died on people smuggler boat but case against nine Egyptians collapses because sinking was in international waters.

Mexican state authorities near Cancun, Quintana Roo, rescued a group of 17 women who were being exploited and sexually trafficked in bars. The women had been lured to the tourist hotspot with promises of jobs at high-end hotels only to be kidnapped and trafficked at local clubs.

A car carrying migrants skidded off road and hit a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and seriously injuring five others.

Authorities in Mexico City raided a high-end brothel and casino allegedly run by the Chinese Mafia in the city’s historic downtown area.

A report claimed two members of Chile’s Investigative Police were working with a human trafficking cell of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang.

German authorities conducted a large-scale raid against an international human smuggling gang early Wednesday, police said in a statement.

MILAN (AP) – The Italian coast guard rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers´ boat capsized in a storm about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the island of Lampedusa, authorities said Thursday. Survivors indicated that the

A car crashed into a river on Tuesday in southeastern Albania, killing all eight people on board, including seven suspected migrants.

Spanish police arrested three people for the deaths of migrants who were threatened with a machete and forced to jump off a smuggler boat.

A Florida mother has been jailed for allegedly abusing her baby, after attempting to sell her to a concerned stranger for $500 and abandoning her.

Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that “human trafficking has gone up” under President Joe Biden.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has opened a case against human traffickers luring Indians to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

Officials arrested 228 people during a human trafficking sting in Florida, with 21 in the group suspected of being illegal aliens.

A lawsuit filed last year by several investment funds claims that Meta’s executives have long known about rampant human trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram but have failed to address the predatory behavior.