Showing posts with label Human Trafficking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Trafficking. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Hirono pushes FBI to address high incidence of trafficking of Native Hawaiian women

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A week after Hawaii's Senator Mazie Hirono urged FBI Director Christopher Wray to do more to protect human trafficking victims in Hawaii...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

DOJ marks National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

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During Human Trafficking Prevention Month, one of the Justice Department's first cases in 2021 resulted in  a life sentence for a Florid...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Woman charged with smuggling people into the U.S. from China

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A Nevada woman was arrested Wednesday for her alleged role in a multi-year scheme to commit visa fraud, money laundering, and smuggling Chi...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

California Couple charged with human trafficking, wage theft

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Amarjit and Balwinder Mann are accused of human trafficking.  An Indian American couple has been charged with human trafficking for locking ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Woman sentenced to 15 years for human trafficking

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An Indian American woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for human trafficking and using the victims, primarily from India, into forced ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

REPORT: Homeland Security agents engaged in sex acts with suspected trafficking victims

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ASAM NEWS  & VIEWS FROM THE EDGE Undercover agents with Homeland Security investigating human trafficking in Arizona repeatedly ...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Man accused of treating woman and her son as slaves

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Lured by the American Dream,  a Filipina and her son instead lived like slaves in a nightmare. High school teacher Christian Mothers...
Monday, August 5, 2019

The Philippines is a major source of exploited domestic workers in the US

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The story by Alex Tizon, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, entitlted "My Family's Slave," was the last story by the ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Couple found guilty of trafficking victims from India and Nepal

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ILLUSTRATION An Indian American couple from Stockton has been found guilty to the charges of forced labor of workers from India and N...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Sunday Read: Arrest of NFL owner arrested at Asian spa shines spotlight on sex trafficking

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Patriots owner Robert Kraft has denied any guilt. ASAM NEWS  & Views From the Edge When the Super Bowl 50 was held at Levi Stadi...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Man guilty of smuggling 400 people into the U.S. from India

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A guilty plea from an Indian national revealed an elaborate, transnational human smuggling pipeline from India to the United States that ...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Man arrested for smuggling undocumented Bangladeshi over Mexico border

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A Bangladeshi national residing in Monterrey, Mexico, was arrested Friday (Nov. 30) on arrival at George Bush Intercontinental Airport ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Texas couple sentenced for labor exploitation

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A TEXAS COUPLE was sentenced to six months in federal prison for a scheme that involved subjecting a Cambodian immigrant to indentured s...