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.
A Michigan woman who had been missing for seven years was rescued after she managed to call for help from a hotel in the Detroit suburbs.
Greek authorities found 84 boat migrants and arrested four individuals, accusing them of being the traffickers that transported them.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Sunday said that a good summary of the establishment immigration bill is the “border never closes.”
Tennessee and Florida are the two best states at fighting sex trafficking, leaving the remaining 48 far behind, according to the organization Shared Hope International.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once again rejected a deal to fund Biden’s continued border operations coupled with tens of billions in foreign aid on Wednesday.
Thirteen unaccompanied minors are among over 300 Indian passengers on a flight to Nicaragua held in France over suspected human trafficking.
A report highlights the danger migrants are put in by callous people smugglers, who grow rich on human suffering.
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.
A Pentagon official who oversaw military schools was arrested during a recent human trafficking sting alongside multiple other suspects in Georgia, according to the Coweta County Sheriff’s office.
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 fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants became grounded, killing five people and leaving about 20 missing off the coast of Sicily.
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.
A family in Queens, New York, accused of operating a sex trafficking ring, was found guilty on Thursday.
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.
