human trafficking

More than 10,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea this year, a report has said.

An appeals court in Romania ruled Thursday that the human trafficking case against influencer Andrew Tate, his brother and two Romanian women cannot go to trial because of multiple legal and procedural irregularities on the part of the prosecutors.

Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) officials conducted a security operation on Tuesday that led to the dismantlement of a Tren de Aragua human trafficking cell that operated “steps away” from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago.

President Joe Biden toured the National Museum of Slavery in Angola’s capital of Luanda on Tuesday, delivering a speech in which he described slavery as America’s “original sin” and claiming it still taints American public discourse.

President-elect Donald Trump has kicked off his diplomacy by promising a 25 percent tariff until Mexico and Canada shut down their inflows of migrants and deadly drugs.

The House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released a report on Wednesday revealing rampant fraud and widespread abuse of the Biden-Harris administration’s CHNV “Humanitarian Parole” program.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) falsely claimed this week that thousands of unaccompanied migrant children have not gone missing in the United States.

A pair of illegal aliens from South America are accused of sex trafficking a missing 15-year-old girl in Palm Beach County, Florida. 

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.

Former President Donald Trump announced “Operation Aurora,” aimed at expediting the removal of “every criminal network operating” in the United States, such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang.

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.

Two Honduran illegal migrants living in New Mexico have been charged for allegedly conspiring to kidnap other migrants to extort their families for ransom, the U.S. ​​Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said Monday.

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.