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

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.

The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.

Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

During a recent news conference, in defending the potential elimination of Title 42, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted the border is not “open” and that spreading misinformation about the border could aid smugglers who ferry migrants into the U.S. 

LESBOS, Greece (AP) – A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people-smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.

A renowned charitable organization called the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF) is asking the government of Malawi to investigate another charity, Raising Malawi, for human trafficking, sexual exploitation, fraud, and exposing children to “homosexual and transgender” propaganda. Raising Malawi was founded by 80s pop star Madonna Louise Ciccone, better known as simply Madonna.

Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.

Internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother have been reportedly remanded in custody for 30 days by a court in Bucharest on Friday.

Helsinki police have arrested a foreign national operating a beauty company who is accused of engaging in human trafficking.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have reportedly been arrested in Romania in connection to a probe into human trafficking and rape.

International sex trafficker Jagpal Singh starred in a BBC reality show in which “real people” were invited to give “real opinions” on the news of the day.

An NGO has claimed that since 2018, an average of six migrants have died trying to reach Spain per day, killed by people smugglers. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is ending a policy that allowed illegal immigrants to use the platform to seek people smugglers to ferry them across the U.S. border, admitting that much of the activity is tantamount to “human exploitation” and “overlaps” with human trafficking.

At least three migrants are thought to have been killed after a small boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel.

Border police dismantled a major trafficking network in the southern city of Perpignan, accused of smuggling over 200 migrants into France. 

President Joe Biden’s so-called “sanctuary country” orders, which prevent the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency from arresting and deporting most illegal aliens, helped free an illegal alien convict who was later arrested for human trafficking, Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone details.

Greek authorities have arrested seven Egyptian nationals accused of people-smuggling after a boat with nearly 500 migrants aboard was brought to the island of Crete this week.

A people smuggler allegedly bragged to an undercover journalist that he is in contact with migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean.

A Calais fisherman claims to have witnessed people smugglers pushing migrants into the waters of the English Channel.

Two people smugglers were arrested in Hungary on Monday after they shot at police with 21 asylum seekers crammed into their vehicle.

Greece’s coast guard says dozens of migrants have been rescued from a sailboat that issued a distress call after it began taking on water.

The boat migrant crisis in the English Channel has escalated to the point that up to two per cent of “the entire adult male population of Albania” have now landed in Britain, according to the top border official for crossings. 

The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni assured Parliament Tuesday that her government would rein in the country’s chaotic immigration situation and restore order and legality to migratory flows.

Giorgia Meloni talked cutting taxes, combatting people smuggling, and introducing policies to benefit Italian families.

Sheriff’s office detectives in Florida arrested two people for allegedly smuggling migrants into the U.S. and forcing them to work in sex clubs to pay off their debt. The investigation led to the arrests of the two and the rescue of eight women.

In his first 13 months in office, President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services lost track of nearly 20,000 young border crossers who were released into the United States, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) shared with Breitbart News.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

It appears that human traffickers are stuffing more and more migrants onto the small boats used for crossing the English Channel, with the average number of migrants per boat breaching 50 for the first time on Wednesday.

Mark Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, AZ, noted on Wednesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow that China supplies transnational criminal cartels based in Mexico with most essential ingredients required to produce fentanyl.

The Greek coastguard has launched an investigation into the activity of NGO charities suspected of working with people smugglers in Turkey.

Over 200 migrants were arrested this week after Serbian authorities cleared a makeshift migrant camp along the Hungarian border. Traffic along the Balkan migration route continues to surge.