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[8] According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC), in 2014, there were 452 reported cases of human trafficking and 1,876 calls made to the center. [9] Texas ranked second in the nation for number of tips to the NHTRC, with 2,236 calls, emails, or tip forms received by the center. [10]
The investigation is ongoing, police said, and further charges against several other individuals are pending. Anyone who has information about this case or is a victim of human/labor trafficking ...
Though the Ethiopian government has increased its efforts to prosecute and punish transnational trafficking offenders, prosecution of internal trafficking cases remains nonexistent. Article 635 of Ethiopia's Criminal Code (Trafficking in Women and Minors) criminalizes sex trafficking and prescribes punishments not exceeding five years ...
In one case, two men were arrested for operating a sex trafficking ring in the Houston area: Venezuelan national Pedro Gonzales and Brandon Andrews, a U.S. citizen and known sex trafficker with a ...
Referring to it as Operation Lone Star, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has coordinated the efforts to bus 8,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., since April, including transporting 100 refugees to Vice ...
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the national network of more than 100 shelters are at 92% capacity. The largest of these migrant shelters in the country is in Tornillo, Texas with almost 2,800 children living in heated, sand-colored tents that are set up on a patch of desert a few hundred yards from the Rio Grande. [18]
Mercy Culture Church pastor Landon Schott took to social media Saturday to clap back at critics of the church’s proposed 100-bed human trafficking victim shelter.
The Refuge Ranch was a Christian faith-based facility on 50 rural acres in Bastrop County, Texas, for young women who had been subjected to human trafficking, which operated under contract with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) until it was ordered to shut down on March 11, 2022, in the wake of multiple reports of sexual abuse and exploitation, medical neglect and ...