Human Trafficking

Rep. Dan Meuser is sponsoring a bill demanding answers on illegal immigrants being sent on so-called "ghost flights" and busses throughout the country. The Pennsylvania Republican said on "Fox & Friends First" his district has been directly impacted and slammed the Biden administration for a lack of transparency and accountability.

All products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Sara Kruzan was 11 years old and living in California’s Riverside County when she was first trafficked into sexual slavery by a local pimp. She suffered years of childhood abuse until—at 16 years old—she fatally shot her pimp, on the orders of a local gangster who had set her up to rob him. In 1995, when Kruzan was 17, a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder, handing her a life sentence with no possibility of parole.

(Reuters) - Eight people have been arrested on charges that they were involved in forcibly recruiting Ecuadoreans for armed groups, the country's prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The prosecution said on its Twitter account the eight were arrested during simultaneous raids in the provinces of Imbabura, Pichincha and El Oro....

Human trafficking is a $150 billion a year industry with more than 40-million victims. The group, Truckers Against Trafficking is looking to not only educate people about the issue, but, to also do something about it.

As one anti-LGBTQ+ Ohio bill has a hearing this week and another made national headlines without even been assigned a committee, a third piece of legislation set to disproportionately harm LGBTQ+ people quietly passed the Ohio House of Representatives. On March 30, House Bill 276 — dubbed the “prohibit receiving...

Reps. Gwen Moore, Don Beyer and Eddie Bernice Johnson have introduced the Counter Human Trafficking Research and Development Act. The legislation will create a National Counter Human Trafficking Research and Development Initiative at the White House to develop anti-trafficking technologies and accelerate scientific understanding of human trafficking, including tools to better measure the prevalence of human trafficking and to detect and disrupt human trafficking demand.

A former substitute teacher at a Miami Beach school is facing multiple charges after authorities said he offered drugs and other items to underage girls in exchange for sexual favors. Enreeka Nalasco, 32, was arrested Friday on charges including human trafficking, traveling to meet a minor, certain uses of computer...

Nine congressional Democrats are accusing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of “possibly” misappropriating COVID-19 funds to finance Operation Lone Star.

Fran Drescher says her service dog changed her life after she was raped at gunpoint nearly 40 years ago. Two men broke into the “Nanny” star’s LA home in 1985 and rape her and a friend. “I am a survivor who has managed to get on with my life in spite of the veil of PTSD that I have learned to live with,” she said earlier this month at the UN Women for Peace Association Luncheon Luncheon To End Violence Against Women, “and I am rarely alone without my… service dog.” “I am often amazed by how much more relaxed I am walking...