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Immigration status refers to an individual’s legal status in a country, and may determine their eligibility for certain benefits, services, or protections. Immigration status can be affected by factors such as citizenship, visa status, and asylum status, and may be subject to change over time.
By Adam Andrzejewski, author of the Open The Books Substack The chaos on America’s southern border has had unintended consequence – a human catastrophe hurting tens of thousands of unaccompanied, defenseless children. GRAPHIC: Federal funding sponsoring unaccompanied minors at the border spiked to an all-time high in 2022. Despite generous taxpayer funding, the federal infrastructure…
Peterborough had the second highest rate of human trafficking cases of Canada’s census metropolitan areas in 2021 and the third highest rate of cases for the period of 2011 to 2021, according to Statistics Canada. Peterborough had 14 human trafficking cases alone in 2021 for a rate of 10.9 cases per 100,000 people and had…
Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) have been subject to human trafficking, release to “sponsors” who have criminal backgrounds and have sometimes been lost while being resettled into the state, according to a report released last month by the Statewide Grand Jury on UACs in Florida and elsewhere. “I am outraged at how the Biden administration…
Twenty-five million people around the world are suffering from it. It’s not a disease. It’s not an illness. It’s human trafficking. This is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, so we’re going to spend a moment talking about it. First, we need to be clear about the definition. Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. It’s a crime…
A grim truth underlies U.S. industry: the appalling practice of child labor, widely perceived as an anachronism, is far from a thing of the sooty industrial past. U.S. consumers may have a hazy sense that children labor somewhere in foreign sweatshops to manufacture their goods — but such faraway tragedies are too easily forgotten at…
BOSTON – The owner of Stash’s Pizza was arrested this morning on forced labor charges for allegedly employing a victim who lacked immigration status and forcing him to work for years while threatening him with deportation and subjecting him to repeated verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, a/k/a “Steve Papantoniadis,” 47, of Westwood, was…
The owner of a Boston pizza chain was arrested Thursday for allegedly forcing an employee who was an undocumented immigrant to work for him for years while threatening him with deportation and subjecting him to repeated verbal and physical abuse. Stavros “Steve” Papantoniadis, 47, of Westwood, owner of Stash’s Pizza, is charged with one count…
BOSTON (WWLP) – The owner of a Boston pizzeria chain was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly forcing an employee that lacked immigration status to work, threatening him with deportation as well as verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, 47, of Westwood, owner of Stash’s Pizza, has been charged with one count of forced labor. He…
The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) recently honored six local changemakers and their teams for helping strengthen the community against sex and labor trafficking. Founded in 2015, STAC assists human trafficking survivors and empowers communities with the tools to recognize, report and prevent trafficking. As a member of the National Human Trafficking Hotline, STAC…
Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, a 15-count indictment was unsealed charging David M. Amin (D. Amin) and Bryce K. Amin (B. Amin), who are brothers, with sex trafficking by force, interstate prostitution, and distribution and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and cocaine base. As alleged in…
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