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'I had nowhere to go': Labor traffickers are taking advantage of the Massachusetts housing crisis
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'I had nowhere to go': Labor traffickers are taking advantage of the Massachusetts housing crisis

For eight months, Julio worked as a landscaper in Western Massachusetts, hauling rocks, digging ditches and pulling weeds about 70 hours a week, earning less than two dollars an hour. At night, tired and hungry, the Guatemalan immigrant would be driven back to his employer’s suburban home, where he would head down to the basement…

Hillsborough schools holds town hall focused on raising awareness of online human trafficking
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Hillsborough schools holds town hall focused on raising awareness of online human trafficking

TAMPA, Fla. – The Hillsborough County school district held a town hall panel discussion Monday focusing on raising awareness about the dangers of online human trafficking. The panel included parents, school board members, a high school principal, along with human trafficking advocates and survivors and was organized by the district’s Human Trafficking Task Force. Panelists…

Needle spiking haunts the land
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Needle spiking haunts the land

I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by perpetrators who spike their drinks with drugs or – more recently – literally inject the women via hypodermic needle with an incapacitating substance. One victim, who lost the ability to walk, talk, or even hold…

Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5 million for hiring minors across US
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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5 million for hiring minors across US

The Department of Labor says the company employed more than 100 children in jobs at 13 U.S. meatpacking plants, including George’s and Tyson in Arkansas. SPRINGDALE, Ark. — One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the…

Georgia state senator is pushing for an invasion declaration at the US-Mexico border
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Georgia state senator is pushing for an invasion declaration at the US-Mexico border

New Senator Colton Moore, R-Trenton, has been appointed chairman of the Senate Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee in the Georgia General Assembly and has called witnesses on the situation on the US southern border. He has called in several witnesses who have described Georgia Army National Guard troops assisting the federal government at the border. “I want…

Youth pastor, foster parent arrested for human trafficking in Florida – WGMD
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Youth pastor, foster parent arrested for human trafficking in Florida – WGMD

  Two Florida men were arrested for human trafficking after allegedly soliciting minors for sexual activity on social media, according to officials. Moises Escoto, a 36-year-old youth pastor, and Joel Lutz, a 38-year-old registered foster parent, were arrested in connection with a human trafficking investigation, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said…

More Than 100 Children Worked in Dangerous Jobs at Slaughterhouse Cleaning Firms, Officials Say
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More Than 100 Children Worked in Dangerous Jobs at Slaughterhouse Cleaning Firms, Officials Say

One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday as it announced over $1.5 million in civil penalties. The investigation into Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, began last summer. Department officials…

Human trafficking victim tricks to sell close friend to Cambodia – VnExpress International
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Human trafficking victim tricks to sell close friend to Cambodia – VnExpress International

Huynh Thanh Nhon, from the central province’s capital town Quy Nhon, has been detained for four months by the police in Binh Dinh while he is under investigation for human trafficking. The police said Nhon had cooperated with several people to traffic people into Cambodia to work against their will. Victims were not allowed to…

Youth pastor, foster parent arrested for human trafficking in Florida | Fox News
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Youth pastor, foster parent arrested for human trafficking in Florida | Fox News

Two Florida men were arrested for human trafficking after allegedly soliciting minors for sexual activity on social media, according to officials. Moises Escoto, a 36-year-old youth pastor, and Joel Lutz, a 38-year-old registered foster parent, were arrested in connection with a human trafficking investigation, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said its human…

Order aims to boost efforts to address human trafficking in Arkansas – Texarkana Gazette
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Order aims to boost efforts to address human trafficking in Arkansas – Texarkana Gazette

LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has issued an executive order aimed at boosting efforts to prevent human trafficking and to protect children and youth in Arkansas. Although the Arkansas State Police Child Abuse Hotline has accepted 243 reports of human trafficking involving minors since August 2017, Arkansas lacks a consistent, uniform screening and…