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San Antonio is a major city in south-central Texas with a rich colonial heritage. The Alamo, an 18th-century Spanish mission preserved as a museum, marks an infamous 1836 battle for Texan independence from Mexico. Following the San Antonio River, the miles-long River Walk is a landmark pedestrian promenade lined with cafes and shops. HemisFair Park’s 750-ft. Tower of the Americas overlooks the city.
The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office and Unbound Now BCS recently received a grant worth $1.5 million to create a multidisciplinary regional task force to fight human trafficking in the Brazos Valley. The Sheriff’s Office and Unbound Now BCS will each receive $750,000 distributed over the next three years. The task force will serve a 10-county…
Prosecutors in the Mahoning Valley are talking about the outbreak of child pornography cases cropping up in area courts. Assistant Trumbull County Prosecutor Gabriel Wildman says there used to be a handful per year, but now he has 20 to 25 cases before him at one time. Wildman just in the last week had started…
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Some 40 migrants advance in a group towards an illegal crossing on Venezuela’s border with Colombia, the first stop on a visa-free journey to the United States on an odyssey on foot that will include the dangerous Darien Gap. “Fear is sometimes forgotten in order to get better things in life,” Eiden Serrada, an 18-year-old…
HOUSTON – The Department of Justice announced the arrests of eight people in a $2.3 million human smuggling operation across four states, including Texas, on Tuesday. Court documents show the migrants paid the smugglers roughly $8,000 to get to the United States from Columbia, Guatemala, and Mexico. According to the indictment, the human smuggling organization…
EAGLE PASS, Texas — At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy…
The city of San Antonio is considering a permanent memorial to honor the 53 migrants who died during a human smuggling attempt in June. A temporary memorial has been erected at the site of the deadly incident. The monument features 53 crosses representing those who lost their lives. The large crosses are covered with the…
Following British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent announcement that the British government struck a 120-million-pound deal with the government of Rwanda to send asylum seekers there from the United Kingdom, discussions of how to effectively tackle the issue of human trafficking have sprung up around the world. Migrants are especially vulnerable to human trafficking, as…
The migrants come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and were turned over to authorities. The incident comes after more than 50 migrants were found dead in a semi-trailer in Texas last month. Almost 100 migrants were left abandoned in a freight trailer on a highway in Mexico and had to break their way out…
SAN ANTONIO – A new report by the Human Trafficking Institute in Washington, D.C., a non-governmental organization that has issued trafficking reports every year since 2000, is giving insight into the fluctuating numbers of victims and cases across the nation. The reports include every single human trafficking case brought to federal courts nationwide. “We seek to decimate…
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