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  2. Human trafficking in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas is an attractive stop for these circuits due to its sizable Asian population, which makes it easier for Asian trafficking victims to blend in. [24] Texas sex trafficking operations involving Asian women and children typically operate out of massage parlors and hostess clubs, and are usually located in predominantly Asian areas with ...

  3. How migrant gang Tren de Aragua is luring women into forced ...

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    In addition to the gang’s sex trafficking in New York, Tren de Aragua also took over the Gateway hotel in the West Texas border city, wielding guns and hatchets while also engaging in fights ...

  4. Gov. Abbott unveils new billboards meant to deter possible ...

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    In a post to X Thursday morning before the news conference, the governor said, “Texas is fighting to stop illegal immigration, human smuggling, and drug trafficking. I launched Operation Lone ...

  5. 3 women sentenced in West Texas human smuggling ring ... - AOL

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    3 women sentenced in West Texas human smuggling ring, deaths of 2 migrants. Gannett. Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times. December 26, 2023 at 4:20 PM.

  6. Human trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] [7] Human trafficking is not synonymous with forced migration or smuggling. [8] Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of ...

  7. Human trafficking in Houston, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of Human trafficking in Houston, Texas is the worst of any U.S. city. Between 2007 and 2016 the city ranked first for reported trafficking cases, [1] while in 2019 the number of cases nearly doubled compared to the previous three years, [2] despite Mayoral initiatives, [3] due to the highly organized nature of this criminal business.

  8. Moment driver discovered to be ‘smuggling’ two women into Texas

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    The Texas Department of Public Safety has arrested and charged a woman with human smuggling after she was found with female illegal immigrants in her sedan. Lidia Elizabeth Badillo, 38, was pulled ...

  9. Human Trafficking Prevention Act - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery, with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.