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Human trafficking and migrant smuggling are multi-billion-dollar businesses that have changed dramatically in recent years, driven by global challenges such as war, large migration and refugee flows, cybercrime, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Against this backdrop, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is launching a global Action against Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling.
“Over the past two decades, there was relative optimism that we could win the fight against trafficking and smuggling globally,” said Ilias Chatzis, Chief of the UNODC Human Trafficking…
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing.
To Dr. Theresa Cheng, the scene was “apocalyptic.”
She had come to Valley of the Moon, an open-air waiting site in San Diego’s rural Mountain Empire, to provide volunteer medical care to asylum seekers who had breached the United States-Mexico border wall and were waiting to be apprehended by American authorities.
Among the throngs at this and other sites, she found children with deep lacerations, broken bones, fevers, diarrhea,…
Although it happened more than 60 years ago, Antonio Salazar-Hobson remembers every detail of his kidnapping. He says that if he closes his eyes, he is instantly taken back to that hot Sunday afternoon in 1960 when he was a four-year-old boy standing with his brothers and sisters in the red dust of his back yard on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona.
Nearby, at the bottom of a short passageway connecting the back yard to the road out of town, a car is idling.
A white man is leaning out of the window, calling Salazar-Hobson’s name. He is very afraid of this man and the woman sitting next…
Not long before departing Congress to successfully pursue the mayor’s office in Los Angeles, former U.S. Rep. Karen Bass introduced a bill that would dramatically rewrite the federal rules around terminating parental rights.
In 2021, the number of unaccompanied migrant children who arrived to the U.S. and were sent to live with Georgia adults not related to them was 464. It was a stark increase from years prior – and a significant red flag for human trafficking and immigration advocates worried about children’s welfare.
The surge in migrant children living with near-strangers in Georgia and across the country is captured in a data set kept by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency in charge of placing unaccompanied minors with adult sponsors. That data set was published at the …
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
Beginning this month, Washington officials have new authority to root out abuse and neglect of children housed in private boarding schools, residential treatment centers and the state’s school for the deaf.
Senate Bill 5515 tasks the Department of Children, Youth and Families with investigating allegations and approving licenses for facilities that had previously been beyond the scope of the child welfare…
Since 2021, migrant children have been traveling alone to the United States in record numbers: Nearly 400,000 children have crossed the southern border by themselves, most of them fleeing extreme poverty.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for placing these children with adult sponsors. While about a third of the children are reunited with parents in the United States, the rest live with other relatives or even strangers.
The New York Times analyzed H.H.S. data to determine the areas of the country with the highest concentrations of migrant children sent to…
The proposed plan ‘will harm vulnerable children who need loving homes and set a precedent that undermines everyone’s parental rights,’ an ethicist warns.
A new rule proposed by the Biden administration aimed at ensuring “safe and proper care” for LGBT children in foster care could, intentionally or not, upend parental and religious freedoms, critics of the new policy are warning.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing steps foster care agencies must take to safeguard children from abuse on the basis of their gender identity and expression.
Former President Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and restrict legal immigration if elected to a second term in office.