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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is a division of the United States Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for investigating a wide range of criminal activities. HSI has jurisdiction over more than 400 federal laws and focuses on transnational crimes that pose a threat to national security, public safety, and the economy. This includes crimes such as human trafficking, drug smuggling, money laundering, cybercrime, and terrorism. HSI has agents located in more than 200 cities around the world, and works closely with other law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute crimes.
SAN ANTONIO – The expansion of human trafficking training at the San Antonio International Airport is a big relief to trafficking survivors like Ashlea Jones. “At 7 years old, I was molested at a friend’s house. That really started like a whole trail of bad behavior,” Jones said. Jones was only 18 when she met…
Overview from Wikipedia: Sound of Freedom is a 2022 American action film directed and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde. It stars Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, and Bill Camp. Caviezel plays Tim Ballard, a former government agent turned vigilante who embarks on a mission to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia. It is produced by Eduardo…
Editor’s note: I just returned from northern California (6/2023), speaking with experts with ties into the situation with legal growers. Human trafficking is happening in legal and illegal cannabis farms. TRINITY COUNTY, Calif. — If you buy weed illegally, you unwittingly could be supporting Mexican cartels and other criminal syndicates that lure workers to farms…
Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our May 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this May consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Special Agent John Kochan with Homeland Security Investigations as he discussed the successes and challenges of working human trafficking cases. Here is the link to…
Every day, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leads the fight against child exploitation and abuse. From the DHS Child Exploitation Investigations Unit (CEIU), part of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cyber Crimes Center (C3), to the United States Secret Service (USSS), to the DHS Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), DHS is dedicated to battling…
MIDLAND-ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) – On Tuesday May 9, Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division (CID) ran a missing and exploited child operation and found a total of 30 children. The age of youngest child recovered was 13 years of age. Law enforcement’s goal was to find or recover children reported missing in Midland…
Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our April 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this April consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Mary Ann Contreras, RN with JPS Health Network. Mary Ann discussed the intersection between intimate partner violence and trafficking. Here is the…
In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at a San Antonio arena converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children. Thousands of boys slept on cots as the Biden administration grappled with record numbers of minors entering the United States without their parents. Ms. Brandmiller’s job was to help control sponsorships and she…
From Staff Reports All employees at Tulsa International Airport will be equipped to help authorities identify and combat human trafficking through a federal partnership with the Department of Homeland Security. The Blue Lightning Initiative, already in action across the U.S., was announced in Tulsa on Thursday by airport officials along with a Homeland Security representative….
Survivors of human trafficking would receive enhanced support and more resources would be authorized for law enforcement combating these crimes under a bipartisan, bicameral bill introduced on Tuesday by U.S. Reps. Dave Joyce (R-OH) and Ann Wagner (R-MO). The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act, H.R. 1405, would establish within Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) the Investigators Maintain…
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