You have the coyotes, you have the traffickers, the human traffickers.
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Traffickers -- if you think about this -- human traffickers are making a fortune.
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"It's very predictable how drug traffickers and people traffickers do their business," he added.
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Traffickers, if you think about this, human traffickers are making a fortune, it&aposs a disgrace.
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Hold traffickers accountable Human trafficking is a high-reward, low-risk crime, and traffickers know it.
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The survivors will be asked to detail the appearance of their traffickers, their addresses if known and if the traffickers were ever arrested.
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They encourage people, frankly, to walk through Mexico and go into the United States because they're drug traffickers, they're human traffickers, they're coyotes.
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They had an understanding, she said, that the community would not go after the traffickers if the traffickers left the community members alone.
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"I'd rather see governments and heads of state control immigration than see human traffickers and drug traffickers in control of the process," Varela said.
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While the majority of traffickers are men, it's estimated that 38% of traffickers are women, according to a 2015 study from the United Nations.
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While the Mediterranean route is favored by traffickers - some children have even had organs removed - traffickers are also active on other routes, the report said.
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In 2016, after US Immigration and Customs arrested 2,000 human traffickers and identified 400 victims, airlines started training staff to spot signs of human traffickers.
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The legislation was passed with the goal of increasing the penalties for wildlife traffickers, making them comparable to those faced by weapons and drug traffickers.
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Some said their traffickers kidnapped them, while others said they were lured to the city by the traffickers who promised them domestic jobs, Elkana said.
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The mission, we're told, is two-fold -- looking for traffickers who are bringing sex workers into ATL and traffickers who are preying on ATL residents.
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Similarly, two kind of traffickers buy from the poachers: those who specialize in ivory and rhino horns, and traffickers who deal in the live animal trade.
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Read: Canada's stolen daughters - sex traffickers target indigenous Canadians "There is a specific shopping mall in Winnipeg where traffickers just hang out and wait," she says.
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It is true that unaccompanied minors who cross the border are vulnerable to traffickers, and that traffickers have abused the system that places minors with sponsors.
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It also increases the maximum jail sentence for traffickers to life from 14 years, and allows authorities to force traffickers to pay compensation to their victims.
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Traffickers often target their own countrymen and women, Coppedge said, explaining that a knowledge of their common culture provides traffickers with additional leverage on potential victims.
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"They encourage people, frankly, to walk through Mexico and go into the United States because they are drug traffickers, they're human child traffickers, they're coyotes," he said.
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The group also supports prosecutions of traffickers, but Danuwar said victims received very little compensation because traffickers were either too poor to pay or had secreted their wealth.
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"The DEA has a continuing year-on-year mission of arresting drug traffickers, busting drug loads, and getting drug traffickers to prisons in the United States," explains Grillo.
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" These agents "detect, respond to, and interdict terrorists, drug smugglers and traffickers, human smugglers and traffickers, and other persons who may undermine the security of the United States.
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"Rumors of the involvement of these three with narcotics traffickers abound," the cable said, adding that they believed Mr. Samper, if elected, would be soft on drug traffickers.
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LAWMAKERS WORRY DIGITAL CURRENCY HELPING HUMAN TRAFFICKERS: Lawmakers at a Tuesday hearing discussed ways to crack down on human traffickers who are using new financial tools to avoid detection.
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Iran's border guards have long fought drug traffickers crossing from Afghanistan, but Iran's Revolutionary Guards and the Taliban have both benefited from the illicit trade, exacting dues from traffickers.
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"Some of these governments allow human traffickers to run rampant, and other governments are human traffickers themselves," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in remarks at the report's release Thursday morning.
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Opinion ABUJA, Nigeria — Human traffickers have officially been cursed.
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Part of this paradigm shift comes from Proposition 35, a voter-approved ballot measure that created harsher penalties for sex traffickers including longer prison sentences, requiring sex traffickers to register as sex offenders, law enforcement training on sex trafficking, and requiring sex traffickers to pay criminal fines that would go toward services for their victims.
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Have we also increased the number of traffickers who continue to hawk their increased volume of cheaper heroin to our children while telegraphing to the traffickers that they can expect softer sentencing?
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Local television news spreads stories of traffickers allegedly lurking everywhere: In the last week alone, phantom traffickers were reported at Walmart, at Target, at Whole Foods, and at a mall in Connecticut.
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To him they are the gang members, criminals, and traffickers.
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Deemphasizing criminal accountability only allows traffickers to operate with impunity.
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The initial traffickers can get around a thousand of that.
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The traffickers may have simply found a more lucrative business.
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Many traffickers are among the thousands of people executed annually.
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""Young drug traffickers pose for a photo wielding their weapons.
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Many have fled on unseaworthy boats run by human traffickers.
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Last year Indonesia executed 14 people, mostly foreign drug traffickers.
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Rights activists say they become easy prey for human traffickers.
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We convicted 1,250 gang members and nearly 225 human traffickers.
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In the popular imagination, drug traffickers have become mythic figures.
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There the traffickers offload the drugs into a motorized canoe.
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All were tied to a network of Colombian cocaine traffickers.
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But the Australian authorities were trying to deter human traffickers.
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We don't have militias or traffickers here — we are free.
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He spends his free time documenting wildlife rescued from traffickers.
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In most cases, traffickers either sell or will kill victims.
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Critics say it would be a boon to sex traffickers.
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Aid groups have strongly denied any ties to human traffickers.
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The majority paid Libyan people traffickers to make the journey.
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They encourage people frankly to walk through Mexico and go into the United Sates because they&aposre drug traffickers, they&aposre human traffickers, they&aposre coyotes, I mean we&aposre getting some real beauties.
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Forests help capture and store planet-heating carbon dioxide; when they are destroyed by traffickers or by the businesses the traffickers launder their money through, they release that planet-heating gas into the atmosphere.
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Neither senator's statement directly addressed the president's call for the death penalty for traffickers, but Ms. Hassan's aides said that in comments earlier in the day, she had opposed the death penalty for traffickers.
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They are not the traffickers, who make money from enslaving them.
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Serbian authorities blame people traffickers for much of the migrant influx.
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And that leaves us more vulnerable to these international drug traffickers.
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People traffickers are likely to focus on new routes, officials fear.
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"Corruption is the best friend of the drug traffickers," says Rojas.
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Others are veteran human traffickers who are simply pursuing their business.
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So traffickers are highly motivated to push it on their customers.
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"These women in detention are not big drug traffickers," she explains.
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The phones of some of the Australian drug traffickers were tapped.
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The vessel, which has been in action against Caribbean narcotic traffickers.
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The Senate's version is called Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA).
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"We've saved several thousands of children from drug traffickers," Homan said.
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Torpedoing prosecutions against Hezbollah drug traffickers is consistent with these decisions.
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Thousands have fled the country, many into the hands of traffickers.
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He paid traffickers 5,000 Ethiopian birr -- about $180 -- for the passage.
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Drug smugglers and human traffickers also frequently traverse our unsecured border.
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Those are traffickers, those are smugglers and that is MS-13.
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Just recently they were hunting drug traffickers and training for battle.
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The companies contend that, while they oppose sex traffickers like Backpage.
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Why do they not immediately report their traffickers to the police?
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As convicted drug traffickers, these men do not qualify for asylum.
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If they don't, she said, "they're as guilty as the traffickers".
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Drug traffickers had already taken notice of Las Pilas, villagers say.
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All that, only then to lose a child to human traffickers.
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Colombia's rich wildlife has made it irresistible to illegal animal traffickers.
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These companies help drug traffickers launder profits and hide dirty money.
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Others showed the powerful weaponry wielded by the traffickers, including mounted .
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This also makes it harder for prosecutors to convict drug traffickers.
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Traffickers convince their victims that the police will not protect them.
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"Why are we forcing them into the hands of people traffickers?"
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"Human traffickers oftentimes will brand their victims as property," he said.
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The Super Bowl is the incentive for these traffickers to move.
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In the camps, rumors of unwanted babies sold to traffickers abound.
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But it's not all high-tech in the fight against traffickers.
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Did he or his human traffickers respect our rule of law?
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Refugees in Bangladesh pay traffickers for the voyage to Southeast Asia.
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This made it difficult for the authorities to trace drug traffickers.
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The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 983 would potentially expand criminal liability for websites like Backpage, a classifieds site that allegedly hosted ads from sex traffickers alongside ads from sex workers in its adult services section.
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Risk from rival drug traffickers The bribes exposed innocent postal workers and bystanders on their routes to dangerous substances or rival drug traffickers who try to rob postal workers to steal packages of drugs, federal officials said.
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"The traffickers are getting smarter and smarter by the day," she said.
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The health of those that are transported alive by traffickers easily deteriorates.
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"They are drug traffickers, they are killers," he told the news conference.
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They also routinely seize the assets of other drug dealers and traffickers.
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The Kuwaiti ecommerce app 4Sale and Facebook were also used by traffickers.
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They are helping these smugglers and these traffickers like nobody would believe.
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He hopes the technology becomes a new standard in stopping drug traffickers.
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Along the way, traffickers demanded more money, but she didn't have any.
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Lulingo was originally rescued from animal traffickers near Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
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It is the traffickers and pimps who get rich, not the victims.
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It is therefore not really surprising that traffickers would target plantation villages.
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Indeed, IS has executed alleged drug traffickers and destroyed narcotics-manufacturing plants.
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Meanwhile, cocaine traffickers began to favour a route through the Northern Triangle.
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But experts said this was because traffickers have found a new market.
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Marijuana was for a long time a cash crop for Mexican traffickers.
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But authorities in different countries do not collaborate enough against the traffickers.
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She was kept at her traffickers' house and threatened for two months.
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Often, traffickers seduce these women to eventually kidnap and sexually enslave them.
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The bill: The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, co-sponsored by Sen.
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She was tattooed by her traffickers, "branded" to mark her as property.
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The 2015 crackdown led to the trial of some alleged human traffickers.
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This is where the traffickers and smugglers prey on people the most.
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Immigration agents have conducted many roundups of drug traffickers and human smugglers.
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Investing more to get prosecutions up and more traffickers convicted makes sense.
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Are they people traffickers indifferent to the fate of their human cargoes?
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The president has denied taking money from Guzman or other drug traffickers.
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Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works.
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Furthermore, links between political leaders, the army and drug traffickers remain controversial.
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Refugees were struggling with the weather conditions and threatened by human traffickers.
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To expose how traffickers work, and how those who help them operate.
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Then traffickers pack migrants into flimsy and overcrowded vessels that often sink.
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Three suspected traffickers were arrested, two of whom are confirmed Spanish nationals.
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Wherever traffickers sell victims, they exploit local businesses for their personal gain.
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Congress never intended to enact a law that shields traffickers from prosecution.
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But the freedom with which drug traffickers influence politics is a challenge.
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The Protection of Children Act is yet another gift to the traffickers.
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Other buildings have become watchtowers of sorts during clashes with drug traffickers.
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He also said he would seek the death penalty for drug traffickers.
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"This is a real present for traffickers," said Julia Siluyanova of Alternativa.
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The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 85033 (SESTA) embodies this reality.
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She trims the plants and gets them ready for Colombian drug traffickers.
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Well, sex traffickers who profit from such sales of human beings can.
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Traffickers make huge profits — some $150 billion annually — while shortchanging responsible businesses.
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Constant rivalries between its military and government have played into traffickers' hands.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "Even agents fighting sex traffickers are having a hard time.
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"They're told by traffickers, 'I've got people waiting for you,'" she said.
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The 1994 provision, however, has never been used to execute drug traffickers.
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But it's not just that drug producers or traffickers will pop up when one is taken down, but that the ones that pop up are actually more ruthless and efficient than the producers and traffickers they're replacing. Exactly.
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Sex workers accurately predicted that the law—the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" and "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act," or SESTA/FOSTA—would endanger them, making many more vulnerable to traffickers and exploitation.
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"The girls are afraid to go to the police on their own because they know they owe the traffickers a lot of money and the traffickers know their family back home," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
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Human traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide-open areas between our ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the United States and to sell them into prostitution and modern-day slavery.
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In one case this year, the police in Amazonas State captured José Conceição de Souza, a pirate who confessed to killing two Colombian drug traffickers and stealing 573 pounds of cocaine the traffickers were taking by boat to Manaus.
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Human traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide open areas between our ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the United States and to sell them into prostitution and modern-day slavery.
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The town's crime problem, however, mainly involves European drug-traffickers operating from Sweden.
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Almost 1,000 children this year wouldn&apost have been rescued from sex traffickers.
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Instead, they invoked traffickers who were rumored to be sighted roaming middle schools.
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Rogue nations, terrorist organizations and arms traffickers have exploited the global financial system.
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S. law enforcement agencies are taking legal actions against known Chinese drug traffickers.
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The drug traffickers, then, became more efficient in response to drug war policies.
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This effect also applies to the kinds of drugs that traffickers trade in.
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Peña, sipping his beer, watching traffickers float by, says that he's had enough.
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Now, everyday people can help fight sex traffickers by simply taking a photo.
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Until his arrest, he had been one of India's most wanted wildlife traffickers.
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Criminals, domestic abusers, traffickers, people who are dangerously ill, they cross borders too.
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"Clearly, traffickers are always thinking about new methods for moving stuff," Mazzitelli said.
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"Traffickers most commonly transport small, multikilogram shipments of methamphetamine in privately-owned vehicles."
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The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 is being introduced by Sens.
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Yet for migrants and traffickers this particular route also has a definite upside.
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Traffickers have become adept at evading the criminal laws currently on the books.
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Traffickers prey on and recruit people within communities that they are familiar with.
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Both stand accused of receiving bribes to let drug traffickers operate in peace.
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This corridor is used often by drug traffickers from the two neighboring countries.
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Paul LePage said Maine should bring back the guillotine to execute drug traffickers.
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Traffickers victimize immigrants and U.S. citizens across every race, gender, religion and culture.
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More is needed to hold traffickers accountable and to protect victims and survivors.
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Thousands more have fled the country, many into the hands of human traffickers.
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It is also plausible that the traffickers were betrayed by a rival one.
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Munsey: Traffickers or pimps can be a lot of different kinds of people.
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The systematic failures that have allowed human traffickers to exploit loopholes are unacceptable.
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Harris also noted her support for the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA).
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At issue is the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), championed by Sens.
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The other six traffickers were sentenced to between six months and 10 years.
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The calls pertained to nearly 6,000 potential traffickers and nearly 2,000 suspect businesses.
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The men were looking for drug traffickers to rob of marijuana, officials said.
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None of the others, ascribed to warring drug-traffickers, has led to arrests.
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Asia was rescued from her traffickers, but she was left traumatized and terrified.
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Human traffickers and buyers rely upon fear and silence to operate their trade.
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He had paid traffickers for the passage across the Red Sea to Yemen.
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Indonesia has declared a "drug emergency" and vowed no mercy for drug traffickers.
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The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since 2006.
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The war of drug traffickers against the government and among themselves has expanded.
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Their coca fields are often guarded by armed drug traffickers, IEDs and snipers.
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It would become a haven for drug traffickers if it is left alone.
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He began his campaign in June describing Mexicans as drug-traffickers and rapists.
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Meanwhile, human traffickers are beginning to build new routes over Libya to Italy.
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Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers (October 21, 1995) 6.
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But it has also attracted criminals, such as drug dealers and arms traffickers.
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Liam Neeson has fought human traffickers, Sith lords, airplane hijackers and dark knights.
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The traffickers also traded the plaintiffs among each other, according to the lawsuits.
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In Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, marijuana traffickers who are caught face capital punishment.
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Initially, witnesses have said, the Zetas and the Sinaloa traffickers worked well together.
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That is especially true of human traffickers, who rob victims of their freedom.
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The Justice Department, in turn, punishes traffickers by taking their freedom through imprisonment.
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The project has not linked specific carcasses to specific tusks recovered from traffickers.
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The three eventually escaped to China where they were sold by human traffickers.
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"These children are often being captured by traffickers, gangs, cartels," Mr. Azar said.
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We have been called rapists, drug traffickers and thieves who steal American jobs.
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The U.S. government routinely seizes assets from alleged drug dealers and traffickers. Rep.
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At the time, the government said the soldiers were ambushed by drug traffickers.
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"Protecting victims and prosecuting traffickers is not enough," Thornton said in a statement.
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RELATED: Tech advocates want to stop a new Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act.
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I'd like to see the traffickers and dealers who supplied them severely punished.
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In fact, under Trump, the federal government is easing up on human traffickers.
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Upon arrival many are held hostage by traffickers and starved, beaten and tortured.
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If traffickers are not held accountable, they can continue to exploit more victims.
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When the FARC disbanded, new traffickers rushed to take control of their territory.
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"Early-stage technologies really helped traffickers to thrive in their business," deBaca said.
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"We are furthering the cause of child pornographers and human traffickers," said McCain.
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These [drug traffickers] can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them.
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As governments cracked down on the Netherland Antilles, traffickers went through West Africa.
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They are the main target of traffickers in the business of sexual exploitation.
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The report also said that it was unclear how many of the approximately 90,000 children the agency had placed in the past two years fell prey to traffickers, including sex traffickers, because it does not keep track of such cases.
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Anti-sex trafficking groups successfully lobbied to pass the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, or FOSTA-SESTA, laws that hurt sex traffickers online by holding platforms responsible for content that promotes sex work.
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DHS's internal watchdog found that traffickers we able to bring victims into the country in part because ICE and DHS's other agency responsible for immigration enforcement -- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services -- sometimes failed to share data they had collected on traffickers.
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Human traffickers routinely demand large sums of cash for passage to Malaysia, and some men, who are willing to pay for a bride in a place where few eligible Rohingya women exist, are supporting this extortion by paying the traffickers' fees.
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Studies show that traffickers have come up with ingenious ways to cover their tracks.
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Read: Sex traffickers target indigenous Canadians Stein's magic tricks are rudimentary and well-worn.
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Now that traffickers have found a market in [North Dakota], they continue to traffic.
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Prosecutors argued Lustgarten was obtaining the US dollars from drug traffickers and paramilitary groups.
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Marijuana traffickers can be subject to the death penalty in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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When traffickers tear through forests, they also uproot communities that make their homes there.
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The traffickers were also ordered to pay fines of €7620 ($8,2700) and €26 ($2000,210).
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We must ensure that prosecuting traffickers remains a priority for governments around the world.
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She received a final call from the traffickers: Robi had died in the jungle.
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Maybe the traffickers beat Robi to death or killed him to sell his kidneys.
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Like many people-traffickers, then and now, Corbin had a man on the inside.
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Those photos help law enforcement match images posted by sex traffickers to real locations.
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Traffickers have chopped down 1 million trees, or 10,000 hectares, since 2010, he said.
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As the people-traffickers' margins have been squeezed, the extortion of migrants has grown.
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CICIG is investigating claims that his party took illegal donations, including from drug-traffickers.
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"They cooperate with the traffickers, so they are involved in the crime," she said.
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"Traffickers are already asking for higher prices from migrants looking to cross," he said.
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In exchange for political donations and personal kickbacks, Frelimo grants traffickers protection from arrest.
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A retired CIA agent's daughter is kidnapped by sex traffickers while sightseeing in Europe.
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Critics also point to the controversial use of former drug traffickers as undercover operatives.
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Drug traffickers leave behind cloth slippers with carpeted soles, used to obliterate their footprints.
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Such measures have discouraged traffickers from shipping cocaine to the United States through Honduras.
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Today, thousands of refugee children are vulnerable to both child traffickers and extremist ideologues.
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And we don't know whether -- are these sales going to, you know, drug traffickers?
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But that effort has just sent enterprising traffickers out in search of new routes.
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The task of identifying and effectively prosecuting sex traffickers continues to be challenging, however.
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Their fear often stems from the traffickers' threats to harm their family, she said.
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Hogan said the act gives authorities the ability to more effectively prosecute sex traffickers.
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Under the new law traffickers could be jailed for 10 years or for life.
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Killers, murderers dealing in heroin, and then those same traffickers claiming to be victims.
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The witnesses described alleged bribes from drug traffickers to President Hernandez and other officials.
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Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement found 400 victims and arrested 2,000 traffickers.
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The police say activities that earlier led them to traffickers have now moved online.
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And in a single year, Spotlight helped identify over 85033,000 victims and 2,000 traffickers.
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"Drug traffickers love using tunnels," journalist Ioan Grillo told Business Insider earlier this year.
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Taliban terrorists used money from drug traffickers to fund terrorist attacks, the DEA said.
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"Because it's anonymous, it's the currency of choice for these drug traffickers," Portman said.
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"They described (the Libyans) as pirates, but they are basically traffickers," Di Giacomo said.
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But Gaura is kidnapped by a gang of traffickers before she can meet her.
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Shortly afterward, Mexico extradited high-profile traffickers, including Valdez-Villareal, to the United States.
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Traffickers are preying on the rising number of children displaced by crises, Satyarthi said.
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Originally, the traffickers were Chinese or out-of-town Cambodians, the police chief said.
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She, like many women exploited by sex traffickers, faced sexual abuse early in life.
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"[Traffickers] need a lot of land through which to move drugs," McSweeney told me.
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Had his original traffickers been caught in 2004, this could have complicated the case.
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"Some of these girls are 'traded' between traffickers over the internet," the report said.
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Criminals, Gangs, Human Traffickers, Drugs & so much other big trouble can easily pour in.
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Because these criminals, drug smugglers, gangs and traffickers do not stop at our border.
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"They don't want to be associated with drug dealers and drug traffickers," he said.
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For one thing, most traffickers aren't multimillionaires with ties to current and former presidents.
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"They don't want to find the real traffickers," he said, referring to government officials.
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Critics have said the FSKN was focusing more on low-level users than traffickers.
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The Ivorian government has carried out other operations against wildlife traffickers in past months.
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NIELSEN: The kids are being used by pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers.
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In reality, Honduras is decidedly winning its war against drug traffickers and criminal gangs.
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The increase came even as significant progress was made combating drug traffickers in Colombia.
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Drug traffickers understand that stiff sentences typically attach once they are arrested and prosecuted.
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We can't prohibit singers from talking about drug traffickers or Hollywood from making movies.
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The thefts are carried out by drug traffickers and other heavily armed criminal gangs.
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Most are fleeing economic hardship and conditions that make them easy prey for traffickers.
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He has also extradited more than a dozen drug traffickers to the United States.
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Mr. Lobo has denied receiving any bribes or having any association with drug traffickers.
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It further found "cops protecting and assisting narcotics traffickers" and dealing and using drugs.
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Many sex traffickers have used this tradition to guarantee the obedience of their victims.
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"We need to maintain distances from just about everybody"—governments, smugglers, and traffickers alike.
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Traffickers are also pressing fentanyl into counterfeit tablets made to look like prescription pills.
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Abusers and traffickers often try to control their victims using the threat of deportation.
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Campaigner Digvijay Kumar said, though, that traffickers had changed their tactics to circumvent authorities.
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The gun lobby wants to sell guns to everyone — criminals and gun traffickers included.
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The breakdown of authority in Yemen has been a boon for the human traffickers.
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Sure, improve fences, install electronic surveillance equipment along the border to stop drug traffickers.
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This partnership has advanced research into possible recruitment efforts by traffickers on social media.
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In some cases, traffickers can control their victims using phone contact alone, Europol said.
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The department needs no additional power to make the internet safer from sex traffickers.
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Under the new law, traffickers could be jailed for 10 years or for life.
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Ostensibly, the Remote Control System is intended for fighting criminals and drug traffickers there.
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Black market fentanyl wasn't some sick form of revenge cooked up by Mexican traffickers.
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As one of the world's biggest drug traffickers, Mr. Guzmán presented a unique target.
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I'm somebody who spent a lot of time legislating against the abhorrent sex traffickers.
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A wall, then, might get traffickers to rely more on legal ports of entry.
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Some Mexican priests have reportedly taken narco alms—or donations from the drug traffickers.
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"For the first time, we have indicted major Chinese fentanyl traffickers who have been using the Internet to sell fentanyl and fentanyl analogues to drug traffickers and individual customers in the United States," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement.
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Cases can be hard to investigate and prosecute because traffickers and owners may hide their ownership of cantinas or liquor licenses, and because victims are too scared to testify in court, afraid that traffickers will retaliate by hurting their families, Polaris said.
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"The refugee traffickers certainly [have an] easier job today than a week ago," he said.
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Its aim: to use money seized from drug traffickers to fund security at the border.
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Campaigners say while girls may be rescued and brothel owners arrested, traffickers usually evade prosecution.
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So drug traffickers have recently taken to trying to fling their products over the border.
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I don't for one second advocate for armed politicians shooting drug traffickers in the street.
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La'Ruama Silva, 26, says security improved, but police still avoid areas controlled by the traffickers.
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To avoid law enforcement, the traffickers are using increasingly remote routes, including protected national forests.
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Traffickers approach the girls as placement agents, offering them work in cities such as Delhi.
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Some children turn to smugglers, traffickers or dangerous informal routes, putting them at terrible risk.
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The most populous country in Africa has subsequently become a target for unscrupulous rice traffickers.
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All the victims - including children and infants - suffocated within two hours after the traffickers departed.
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Desperate and destitute, many refugees are paid by traffickers to take yaba across the border.
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After discovering a cache of drugs, Mr Cantú suggests following the tracks of the traffickers.
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In recent years charities have worked with authorities to protect forests from poachers and traffickers.
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"'Mayo' Zambada is one of the most astute drug traffickers that Mexico has ever spawned."
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KEEN, no doubt, to stay alive, drug traffickers tend to be prompter payers than most.
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Google cannot oppose the legislation openly because it would be seen as defending sex traffickers.
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Some were traffickers, and he soon followed their example, succumbing to the allure of smuggling.
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A lot of times criminal organizations, or human traffickers, are connected to the prostitution industry.
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Iran hanged 28503 convicted drug traffickers in the span of just two days in 22019.
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Some could easily imagine how an unlocked bag might have been targeted by drug traffickers.
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The measure at issue is the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, an effort by Sen.
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Ms Cabral now thinks the UPPs should leave the favelas, letting the drug traffickers return.
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Thousands have since fled by sea and overland, often aided (or kidnapped) by human traffickers.
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The letter said eight traffickers were arrested and the ringleader was jailed for 10 years.
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Detective Constable Michelle Ohren said the psychological control used by the traffickers cannot be underestimated.
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Peace and the prospect of more effective governance directly threaten the interests of drug traffickers.
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In most cases, Rohingya head to Malaysia and Thailand on rickety boats arranged by traffickers.
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Populations fleeing conflict, such as Syrian, Iraqi and Rohingya refugees are also targeted by traffickers.
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Many migrants arrive via traffickers, often in dire conditions and for large sums of money.
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While rarely a tool of traffickers, it is needed to fix our broken asylum system.
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As AG, Harris prioritized the prosecution of transnational gangs and weapons, drugs, and human traffickers.
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The agency says some traffickers are using the U.S. mail system to sell their supplies.
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Even the Aviation Division, on which the DEA depended to surveil Taliban traffickers, had issues.
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Her traffickers forced her into criminal activity (she did not want to disclose further details).
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By late 2009, Mr. Rivera testified that he and other traffickers felt threatened by Gen.
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Traffickers have moved in, spreading the word that they can relieve women of unwanted newborns.
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Instead, the State Department used another law aimed at sanctioning international traffickers and narco-terrorists.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has vowed to pursue drug traffickers relentlessly.
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None of the migrants were given life jackets, but all the suspected traffickers wore them.
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The Times tracked international traffickers from Congolese rain forests to the back streets of Bangkok.
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China takes a hard-line stance on drugs domestically, executing drug traffickers and policing consumption.
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"The kids are being used by pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers," she replied.
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He has seemed, at times, to support racial profiling in the pursuit of drug traffickers.
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And policing strategy would have to change so officers could distinguish pimps from sex traffickers.
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The kids who grow up to be drug traffickers assume that death is their destiny.
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The Justice Department has increased the number of prosecutions it has brought against fentanyl traffickers.
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Letty was sold to sex traffickers at just 13 years old, according to the outlet.
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Claudia's traffickers are now serving prison sentences for human trafficking and for sexually exploiting her.
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Last month, however, the Senate approved bipartisan legislation called the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act.
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They decided to pay traffickers to smuggle them out of Syria and into Turkey illegally.
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Many aid ships dismiss the accusation that they are colluding with human traffickers as ludicrous.
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America's foster care system, for example, is dysfunctional and amounts to a pipeline for traffickers.
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"Terrorists are traffickers in art, among other things," European economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters.
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Police said some of the victims were persuaded by their traffickers to sell their babies.
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By increasing the difficulty of recruitment substantially, it acts as a significant deterrent for traffickers.
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As trafficking becomes more difficult and less lucrative, traffickers will start to exit the industry.
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His digital ruses have no effect on drug traffickers or drug-related violence in Mexico.
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Drug traffickers, transnational criminal organizations, and violent street gangs all contribute substantially to this scourge.
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Many migrants also simply disappear from detention centers, sold to traffickers or to other centers.
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The subcommittee accused Backpage executives of knowingly allowing ads from sex traffickers on their site.
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Traditionally, traffickers have used Nepal as a transit point to send women to the Gulf.
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Traffickers no longer depend on imported opioids; all they need is a laboratory and chemicals.
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Italy says humanitarian NGOs are being exploited by human traffickers, a charge the NGOs deny.
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Banafa said companies that process cryptocurrency payments could be important gatekeepers in targeting human traffickers.
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The witness list at trial included 14 government cooperators, mostly former traffickers and cartel associates.
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A PBS Frontline investigation found cases of teenagers getting released to labor traffickers by ORR.
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Sessions said he has directed the DOJ to focus on drug traffickers, and border security.
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Unlike drug traffickers, e-waste criminals can't smuggle in their wares along muddy jungle trails.
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"They called us drug traffickers and thieves," Fujimorista congresswoman Lourdes Alcorta told the Associated Press.
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"The kids are being used as pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers," she said.
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Homeland Security auditors say human traffickers were able to exploit the work and fiancé visa system because the two agencies responsible for immigration enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services, did not always share data that was collected on human traffickers.
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While ISIS has been happy to demonstrate some of its criminality through public executions and physical abuse, its members are much less vocal about their role as serial rapists, human traffickers and drug traffickers — allegedly producing and selling Captagon, an amphetamine popular in the region.
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Preteens and teens, who are often the targets of child traffickers, need to understand traffickers' recruitment tactics, which often involve older men first engaging in a romantic relationship with young girls before coercing or convincing them to engage in sex acts with other men.
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Reverol "alerted the traffickers to future drug raids or the locations where law enforcement officers in Venezuela were conducting counter-narcotics activities to allow drug traffickers to change the location where they stored drugs or alter drug transportation routes," amongst other offenses, federal prosecutors said.
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"Ironically, these policies that claim to be trying to clamp down and secure the border and stop smuggling and stop traffickers... actually empower the traffickers, the cartels, the smugglers," says Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission.
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"This is a momentous day in our fight to hold online sex traffickers accountable and help give trafficking survivors the justice they deserve," Republican Senator Rob Portman, who co-authored the bill, known as the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, said in a statement.
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Per the Washington Post, the messages often accuse people of being human traffickers or organ harvesters.
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Typically, synthetic forms of heroin are shipped to traffickers in our country through the postal system.
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Although rare, illegal immigrants can be made the virtual slaves of the traffickers who brought them.
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Slavery exists in every country and traffickers unfailingly prey upon those who are the most defenseless.
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"The boys see the traffickers have money, and they want to be like them," Silva said.
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Do we want to allow traffickers to inflict suffering on vulnerable people and corrupt our communities?
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Their paychecks were withheld by the traffickers to pay off smuggling debts, according to the report.
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To move cocaine to its North American consumers, South American drug traffickers cut through Central America.
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"We are seeing more serious prisoners coming back—child sex offenders, drug traffickers, robbers," Tohifolau says.
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Many perish when overloaded boats, packed to the hilt by human traffickers, sink or catch fire.
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I got the sense that she also thought the traffickers would capitulate and eventually release Robi.
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But Javi's not with drug traffickers, like the wedding we saw on Season 29 of Narcos.
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Cannabis has not enriched them, as most of the profits go to traffickers—and corrupt officials.
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He points out that, in 2016, traffickers mistakenly thought that two aircraft had been shot down.
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Mm-hmm. I'm somebody who spent a lot of time legislating against the abhorrent sex traffickers.
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Still, most of the higher level traffickers elude capture, while prisons fill with low-level offenders.
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The ship, which has been in action against Caribbean narcotic traffickers, has around 120 crew members.
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Another is that it won't necessarily prevent sex traffickers from using websites to peddle their victims.
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The pangolin scales trade is bridging the gap between these two groups and reinforcing traffickers' capacities.
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In 2010, the Brazilian government launched a military operation to clear the favela of drug traffickers.
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He added that the drugs were carried inside the bodies of traffickers during 21 separate deliveries.
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Stylianou said she hoped TraffickCam could be used as evidence against traffickers but acknowledged its limits.
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Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapena warned that customs personnel linked to drug traffickers would eventually be arrested.
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In the absence of criminal indictments, these courageous individuals have launched civil cases against their traffickers.
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At the time, her father was one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the world.
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He was kidnapped and tortured by drug traffickers on February 7, 1985, for over 30 hours.
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The GCE poll showed 63.5% of respondents believed drug traffickers were more powerful than the government.
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They are also reluctant to bring charges against their traffickers after being rescued from the brothels.
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Traffickers can hide in plain sight, as long as people don't know how to find them.
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Honduras has one of the world's highest murder rates, driven by street gangs and drug traffickers.
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Mosby said her office will instead focus on prosecuting dealers and traffickers in marijuana distribution cases.
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The raid also uncovered about 19,000 tablets of fentanyl, marked by traffickers to look like oxycodone.
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Dozens of local and regional candidates withdrew from races, reportedly because of threats from drug traffickers.
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To get around the legal requirement, Siti's traffickers forged a passport with a new birth date.
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But criminal syndicates, human traffickers and jihadist groups are profiting from the drug trade, he said.
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"Good moment to remember what happens to real journalists who cover Mexican drug traffickers," Baron said.
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The consequences may range from vulnerability to traffickers to difficulties attending school and obtaining a passport.
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"The US should strengthen its crackdown on distributors, traffickers and drug-related criminal rings," he added.
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Identify the enablers, seize their financial assets and ensure the traffickers are punished for their actions.
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The money they earn is usually paid to the traffickers, or to buy alcohol and drugs.
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This isn't the first time Trump has advocated for exercising the death penalty against drug traffickers.
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He had allegedly charged traffickers $1 million for each ton of cocaine passing through Guinea-Bissau.
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That was to prevent labor abuses and human traffickers selling people on to boats, Adisorn said.
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Altogether, those traffickers had 5,000 Facebook friends, who might be exposed to their frequent sales pitches.
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Ahead was a jigsaw puzzle of competing powers — guerrillas, paramilitary groups, drug traffickers and the military.
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Even law enforcement agrees that Backpage helped authorities catch traffickers and get tips on criminal activity.
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Drug dealers, illicit arms traders, tax evaders and sex traffickers all rely on cash, he said.
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Without strict laws and enforcement, we would long have become a magnet for international drug traffickers.
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That was slightly more than the 37 percent that most Mexican traffickers charged, Mr. Ramírez said.
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What followed was a significant slowdown in the pursuit of drug traffickers, another key administration priority.
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Mandatory minimum sentences deter would-be traffickers by ensuring that punishments are strong, swift and certain.
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They struck deals with Libyan tribes, and possibly human traffickers, to reduce the flow of migrants.
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It has become harder to reach other parts of southern Europe, prompting traffickers to target Spain.
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We do see traffickers and very evil people sometimes claiming to be the parents of children.
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Prosecutions of drug traffickers are on the rise, and the surge in overdose deaths is slowing.
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Since 2016, Niger has arrested more than 6103 human traffickers and confiscated more than 95 vehicles.
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They didn't need to work, because their travel had been paid for by traffickers in Europe.
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"This is a real present for traffickers," said Julia Siluyanova of Russian anti-slavery group Alternativa.
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According to the government, migrants usually pay traffickers around $1,000 to $2,000 to reach South Africa.
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"It is wrong to brandish all non-nationals as drug dealers or human traffickers," he said.
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According to the report traffickers can make between $3,000 and $13,000 selling women to Chinese families.
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Targeting narco-traffickers, dirty cops, scam artists and mob enforcers, I seamlessly transformed into Jimmy Falcone.
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He said he had escaped from an eight-year ordeal at the hands of sex traffickers.
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"Ecpat's code can drastically reduce traffickers' ability to exploit children through the tourism industry," she said.
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On Sunday, the police said they rescued 13 Rohingya girls in Dhaka from two suspected traffickers.
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The D.E.A. and Honduran police said that the passenger boat carried drug traffickers who fired first.
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It has, in essence, provided a penalty-free zone for sex-traffickers to conduct their business.
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The platform helped Deliver Fund and law enforcers identify and build cases on 50 sex traffickers.
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A vast majority had been abused, which made them more susceptible to the manipulations of traffickers.
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"Sex traffickers are readily taking advantage of those technologies that are available to them," he said.
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The operation went far beyond just cracking down on a handful of sex traffickers and pimps.
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Victims are also taught how to spot traffickers and their tricks so they can defend themselves.
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To beat traffickers, we need diplomacy and the good will of countries like Mexico and Afghanistan.
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She denied charges of taking bribes from imprisoned drug traffickers, and called the move political persecution.
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But his traffickers were never punished because the boy's case was not registered with the police.
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"She left Afghanistan, with her father via traffickers, when she was less than 3," Lawrie said.
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In a small number of cases, traffickers can be charged with conspiracy, which is a felony.
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Traffickers cycled women in and out of parlors every 10 or 20 days, Sheriff Snyder estimated.
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Over the next three years, the girl was sold into slavery and raped by human traffickers.
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In this way, the war on drugs has made traffickers even better at what they do.
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Both the traffickers and the militiamen running the detention centers may sell migrants into forced labor or sexual exploitation, and the traffickers often bribe detention centers to regain the captured migrants so that they can extort more money from friends and family in their country of origin.
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There's also evidence that Mexican traffickers order fentanyl from China and smuggle it into the U.S. themselves.
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"(The traffickers) were no longer able to get people by land through Thailand to Malaysia," says Lowry.
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"The traffickers&apos prisons are terrible, terrible, like the concentration camps of World War II," Francis said.
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His new drive against drugs reflects growing international concerns that East Africa is being used by traffickers.
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Traffickers are extremely perceptive in figuring out a person's vulnerabilities and preying on those vulnerabilities, Hersh said.
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DHS has repeatedly warned that children are being exploited by traffickers to skirt the nation's immigration laws.
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When drug traffickers in the area think they might get caught, they throw their cocaine cargo overboard.
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This is because traffickers often post photographs from one location to advertise services in another, she explains.
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We know separating kids from parents, that&aposs is bad, leaving kids with traffickers that&aposs worse.
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We really want to find the traffickers that are handling not just one victim but many victims.
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Traffickers have something to sell, they just have to find a place where they can sell it.
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The general also reportedly oversaw the resale of cocaine and marijuana it had seized from local traffickers.
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The husband became abusive and the girl was vulnerable when the traffickers befriended, drugged then abducted her.
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Women from rural areas are often lured by traffickers with false promises and then forced into prostitution.
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"Coca leaf is not good business anymore, because traffickers can no longer fly without consequences," Otarola said.
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The children, as young as 14, had been in federal custody before being entrusted to the traffickers.
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Eventually, these women plan to use their degrees to prosecute traffickers like the ones who abused them.
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Illegal crops are Catatumbo's economic engine, experts say, and the area is also home to drug traffickers.
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The initial traffickers are often Vietnamese Hmong, who pass the girls along to Chinese Hmong—basically middlemen.
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As demand for illegal marijuana dwindles, Mr Mazzitelli says, traffickers will move to methamphetamine, cocaine or opiates.
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Crepinko said the "deathtraps" traffickers used to smuggle migrants showed the lack of regard for their safety.
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But Radha's case, which ended in conviction and a 53-year sentence for her traffickers, was unusual.
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Exporting timber from Senegal is illegal, so traffickers smuggle it to neighboring Gambia for shipping to China.
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Details: High-level fentanyl and heroin traffickers would not be eligible for credits to reduce their sentence.
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"Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works," he tweeted on July 11th.
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Some officers have been found to have stolen public money; others have sold arms to drug-traffickers.
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The ascendancy of the particular group said to be clamping down on the traffickers may not last.
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Established in 2008, after failed peace talks with the LRA, it has convicted human traffickers and terrorists.
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But those data depend on whether the traffickers or the police get lucky in a given year.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi seconded the notion that the law would protect Floridians from dangerous drug traffickers.
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THE MOSQUITO COAST of eastern Honduras is not notably infested with mosquitoes, but swarms with cocaine traffickers.
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Douglas said part of meth's appeal for drug traffickers is the relatively low startup and overhead costs.
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Drug-traffickers mostly bypass the isthmus, preferring to ship cocaine to the United States through northerly neighbours.
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She says she broke her leg leaping from the house in which her traffickers were holding her.
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Enraged, Congress revised the tax code in the early Reagan years, forbidding tax exemptions for drug traffickers.
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""Young drug traffickers pose for photos holding their guns at a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Now we need to declare war on the cross Channel people-traffickers with a New Dover Patrol.
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Many paid traffickers to pack them into trucks for the long drive across Libya and the Sahara.
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He'd worked drug cases, and the team he was leading that day was looking out for traffickers.
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Traffickers are known to lure people from their own communities and can face punishment under traditional laws.
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I watch Netflix because my wife likes it, and this series about drug traffickers caught my eye.
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Over 20 years of making films, you've spent time with murderers, rapists, pedophiles, Nazis, and sex traffickers.
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The company also defended its position on the sex trafficking law Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA).
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This safeguarding can be skipped if they travel on a tourist visa - hence its appeal to traffickers.
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"It's highly likely that traffickers have just shifted approach," said Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC's Asia-Pacific head.
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Globally, human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, according to the ILO.
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"By closing CAM the administration pushed minors further into the hands of traffickers and smugglers," said Podkul.
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Economically and socially marginalized people who lack representation and access to services are most vulnerable to traffickers.
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"This bill is aimed at major narcotics traffickers," said Republican Senator Patricia Bates, who introduced the bill.
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He added that the department would continue to investigate and prosecute human traffickers involved in forced labor.
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Instagram and WhatsApp, two social media platforms also owned by Facebook, are also sometimes used by traffickers.
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Seeing through the disguise Exploitative people, including traffickers, use psychological manipulation as the primary means of control.
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He said HHS conducts extensive vetting of adults to make sure they're not traffickers masquerading as parents.
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Her traffickers beat her, branded her and forced her to have sex with countless strangers for money.
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Survivors should be treated with dignity while we continue to hold the real criminals, the traffickers, accountable.
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Campaigners say the video conference brings hope of seeing more convictions against traffickers in cross-border cases.
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In an interview with The New York Times in January, Mr. Reverol denied his links to traffickers.
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The UN guidelines advise flight attendants not to confront traffickers or try to rescue the victim themselves.
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The more lenient arrangements would not apply to drug gangs, armed traffickers and repeat offenders, ISNA said.
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We've got black market traffickers, they seem to be coming from other states and they are criminals.
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The authorities have long struggled to contain the violence spawned by warring drug traffickers and militia groups.
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When the traffickers arrived, Enotiades tried to explain that he had no control over the buyers' whereabouts.
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And Colombian traffickers were reportedly able to live in luxury around the capital, Bissau, with virtual impunity.
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The Senate bill, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), faces strong opposition from many tech groups.
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Right now there is a bill in Congress called the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017.
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Anders met with with three traffickers in person and captured undercover video of the meetings, Kohn says.
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Eventually, the FARC moved into Colombia's booming drug business, levying taxes on coca growers and cocaine traffickers.
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The promise of marriage is a typical way for traffickers operating in the camps to lure girls.
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For narco traffickers in the area, the many holes in law enforcement make moving the drugs easy.
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"[The bill] might sound noble, but it would do nothing to stop sex traffickers," the EFF writes.
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" The Foundation provided a followup comment, telling TechCrunch, "SESTA/FOSTA will do nothing to stop sex traffickers.
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HHS says it requires these checks to keep kids safe and out of the hands of traffickers.
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They simply do no appeal to enough users to make them profitable for drug traffickers to supply.
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Libya is known as a jumping-off point for migrants and a hotbed for human traffickers. 5.
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Mohsen said he could not afford to pay traffickers for the whole family to go to Greece.
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Traffickers caught carrying illegal plastic are liable to be fined, jailed or forced to make public confessions.
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The traffickers concealed the semen in shampoo bottles and imported it into the country in passenger luggage.
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She'd learned the ruses that traffickers and slave owners used to try to retrieve their human property.
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The butt-rig is just the latest unsuccessful invention traffickers have tried to use to smuggle drugs.
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That was the first time one of the Mexican traffickers delivered the cocaine to me that quickly.
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Those are traffickers, those are smugglers and that is MS-13, those are criminals, those are abusers.
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Otherwise, she could risk falling back into the hands of traffickers, which happens often with young victims.
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Part of the danger comes from vicious human traffickers who lure defectors into forced labor or prostitution.
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Normally, Interpol goes after murderers and drug traffickers, not women fond of posting cleavage shots on Instagram.
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The Australian authorities, trying to deter human traffickers, directed him to an Indonesian port 12 hours away.
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And asylum-seekers sent to Honduras will likely become prey for traffickers and recruitment into criminal gangs.
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He was arrested and, in his taped interview, named the narco-traffickers he knew, including Mr. Rivera.
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She has her reasons, and soon after satisfying them, she is drugged and kidnapped by sex traffickers.
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The rituals leave victims fearing that relatives will fall ill or die if they disobey their traffickers.
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Proposed legislation has an unassailable title, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017, and bipartisan support.
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About 72 suspected traffickers and 167 migrant smugglers were arrested during the week-long operation last month.
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Traffickers then used forged documents to get them admitted into the Apollo Hospital for the necessary procedure.
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They are sold by their desperately poor parents to human traffickers, sometimes for as little as $250.
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"We are seeing unprecedented sophistication from traffickers in terms of laundering money," the financial crime expert added.
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Under the new law, traffickers could be jailed for 10 years or, in some cases, for life.
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The bipartisan measure was designed to undermine human traffickers by prohibiting online platforms used for the trade.
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But his optimism disappeared when traffickers informed the group that travel beyond Libya had not been paid.
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Second, law enforcement already has the power and permission to prosecute businesses that knowingly facilitate sex traffickers.
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When compared to the estimated 20.9 million victims enslaved, it's clear that most traffickers operate with impunity.
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As loggers, miners, and narco-traffickers moved in, aislados fled across the border into Brazil, seeking sanctuary.
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Some anti-immigrant parties have accused the aid groups of encouraging, or even colluding with, human traffickers.
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He told them he had escaped from an eight-year ordeal at the hands of sex traffickers.
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"I made this decision that we had enough of that: Let's go after the traffickers," he said.
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Floral curtains adorned the room's barred windows, and not much was explained to us by the traffickers.
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Had we kept going -- as our traffickers intended -- we would have arrived in Kano 14 hours later.
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What kind of innovations are you expecting to see from drug traffickers in the next few years?
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She lives with her family close to the soccer pitch, where police and drug traffickers regularly clash.
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Since its launch in late 2013, she says there have been about 130 felony convictions of traffickers.
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For traffickers, it made financial sense: Since fentanyl is more potent but is also fairly cheap to produce, traffickers can promise a high at a lower dose, which means they have to smuggle less of the product (making it easier to conceal), for a similar or even greater profit.
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"Traffickers know where to find them, at bus stops, at certain group homes unfortunately," she told the Foundation.
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Last week, Sirisena said convicted drug traffickers will be hanged as a part of a crackdown on narcotics.
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But a new breed of law enforcement has recently joined the agencies scrutinizing African exports and prosecuting traffickers.
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Human traffickers are criminals like pedophiles and drug dealers whose crimes should be punishable by death, Velopoulos said.
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That, Hersh said, is a classic tactic of traffickers who aim to prevent their victims from speaking out.
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Traffickers allegedly financed their election campaigns in exchange for help transporting cocaine and heroin to the United States.
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Pence said relations have improved under Moreno&aposs leadership and noted their shared fight against international drug traffickers.
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They face growing up as a lost generation vulnerable to abuse by traffickers and recruitment by extremist groups.
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These crimes involve a network of human traffickers, with agents, brokers, and clerics all part of the scheme.
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For investigators attempting to track down sex traffickers and their victims, these online advertisements can contain critical clues.
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Another strategy is for traffickers to base themselves in a central location and post ads in multiple cities.
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And hopefully we will provide the support that those victims need, even after their traffickers are held responsible.
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"Drugs, terrorists, violent criminals and child traffickers trying to enter our country," an ominous voice begins the ad.
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"The laws governing business registration are almost tailor-made for massage parlor traffickers to hide behind," it said.
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If we work together, we can get the criminal traffickers off our streets and off of the internet.
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U.S. border officials only inspected about 10 percent of these trucks, leaving a big opening for drug traffickers.
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By the end of the gunbattle, local media reported at least three suspected drug traffickers had been killed.
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You get this filtering effect decade after decade where you end up artificially selecting or breeding super-traffickers.
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In addition to pursuing traffickers to curb supply, the government pumped money into education and treatment for addicts.
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Plans have been proposed to block the traffickers' routes, which might deter migrants from assuming the appalling risks.
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They were sent up here with human traffickers because the Democrat-supported policies have allowed this to happen.
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Earlier this year, investigators intercepted a phone call between traffickers making a threat against Sombra, the AP reported.
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" Drug traffickers were first added to the JPEL list in 2009, "allowing them to be targeted for strikes.
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Elsewhere, millions of consumers can fly high-end devices - and so can drug traffickers, criminal gangs and insurgents.
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Police have registered a case against the owner of the factory and two traffickers under anti-slavery legislation.
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Others return to Nigeria still indebted to their traffickers, only to be rejected by their families, she added.
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Unlike drug-traffickers, who also control plenty of neighbourhoods in Rio, militias have close connections to the state.
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They also arrested two alleged traffickers, amid a spike in opioid overdoses and deaths in the United States.
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The traffickers of the banned substances are punished, but in most countries the athletes face no criminal charges.
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Desperate to send money back home to feed their families, migrants make easy prey for traffickers, campaigners say.
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Police occasionally clash with ethnic Baluch militants and drug traffickers in the province, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Police may not even try as the authorities and their political patrons are often in league with traffickers.
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The ELN, another nominally Marxist outfit, still threatens, as do violent drug-traffickers and dissidents from the FARC.
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In early December 22003, he and two other weapons traffickers involved in the deal were arrested in Montenegro.
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In early December 153, he and two other weapons traffickers involved in the deal were arrested in Montenegro.
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Some of the traffickers described in the report have ties to the business community or to local government.
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She also called for new legislation to make it easier for Nepal's government to recover assets from traffickers.
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Traffickers often threaten violence against those they exploit and their loved ones if they seek help from authorities.
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Nobody says "Fuck, I'm the bad guy" and I think that the same is true of narco traffickers.
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Kimmel acknowledges that truckers are often seen as potential customers for traffickers looking to pimp out their victims.
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They plan to work more closely to convict slavemasters and human traffickers, said Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
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They are also trying routes through neighboring countries including Nepal where collusion of officials with traffickers is suspected.
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"These barriers are a gift to the traffickers," he said at the Thomson Reuters Foundation's annual Trust Conference.
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Drugging victims to make them more compliant is a tool of torture that traffickers are known to use.
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The alleged traffickers are accused of sharing drug transportation routes and obtaining their drugs from Colombian drug organizations.
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Now it's only in the hands of the criminals, of the human traffickers, like the situation in Turkey.
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"We ended up with numbers that were street-level, neighborhood-level traffickers instead of cartel leaders," Sterling said.
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Both traffickers and victims in the illicit cantinas tended to be from Mexico or Central America, it said.
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According to the International Labor Organization, human traffickers derive $150 billion per year in profits from their crimes.
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Libya remains fertile ground for traffickers as local militias and a rival government in Tobruk compete for power.
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He's prosecuted 'little guys' and 'big guys,' including a major league baseball player, gun-traffickers, and RICO violators.
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Cartosio said there was no indication that Jugend Rettet had received any money from the Libya-based traffickers.
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"If we want to stop human traffickers, then this can only be achieved through development aid," she said.
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"Mardaani" director Pradeep Sarkar said it was important to show traffickers were "regular, normal people living next door".
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Warlords and drug-traffickers, often one and the same, frequently hold sway on both sides of the frontier.
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That findings support the theory that the arrival of medical marijuana leads traffickers to dial back their efforts.
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"There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls," said the police statement.
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Until the clampdown, it was easy for traffickers to obtain the drug from factories with few questions asked.
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How have this plea bargaining for reduced sentences affected the ability to keep drug traffickers off the streets?
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Her family were living in a cowshed when she was handed over to traffickers promising a better life.
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In the worst cases, these loopholes are being exploited by human traffickers and violent gangs like MS-13.
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"And the traffickers know full well," Braun added, "that, okay, the market is ripe right now for that."
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Small bands of rebels still operate in remote regions of Peru and have close ties to drug traffickers.
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Traffickers had previously mostly targeted poor, unmarried mothers or stolen babies from hospitals with inside help, campaigners said.
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Key companies, though, are open to working on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), introduced by Sens.
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"Drugs, terrorists, violent criminals, and child traffickers trying to enter our country," an ominous voice begins the video.
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If that fails, there are other ways to target traffickers without making tech companies the new speech judges.
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And law enforcement agencies around the country report that their work to stop traffickers has hit a wall.
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"Traffickers," he says, not his own violent decrees, are to blame for the cries of children in cages.
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When their boat was within sight of the Yemeni coast, the traffickers ordered the passengers to jump overboard.
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U.S. diplomatic cables released last year showed widespread concerns among U.S. officials about Uribe's ties to drug traffickers.
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Cybersecurity company Cloudflare says it may have violated US law by doing business with terrorists and narcotics traffickers.
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According to local news reports, drug traffickers are involved in territorial disputes in at least 20 Rio neighborhoods.
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A crackdown on people smuggling networks in Thailand in 2015 saw many Rohingya abandoned at sea by traffickers.
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Anders introduced Michael's Facebook alter ego to two traffickers, who then invited him to join their private groups.
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Because there you have countries that enable narcos and all the drug traffickers and they take no action.
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At least 29 major drug traffickers have been arrested, contributing to a 23 percent drop in homicide rates.
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I'm not convinced fighting addiction, as opposed to stopping drug traffickers, is best addressed at the federal level.
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The chief suspects were a cell of high-ranking police commanders working hand-in-hand with drug traffickers.
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" "I'm very concerned with having murderers and drug traffickers and drugs and drug cartels pouring into our country.
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And anti-sex work policies like Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act still receive broad, bipartisan support in Congress.
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Human traffickers have increasingly moved their operations to Tunisia since a crackdown by the coastguard in neighbouring Libya.
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"It's a bit surprising that in effect they were drug traffickers but didn't have any security," he said.
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After her traffickers were arrested, Linsenmeir was released and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the suit states.
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The FAST program provided military-style training to law enforcement officers in other countries to counter drug traffickers.
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The populace lost trust in the police, widely understood to be on the payroll of the drug traffickers.
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"Common sense states that traffickers will move elsewhere," said Debbie Ariyo, an anti-trafficking expert based in Britain.
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The aim is to discourage human traffickers who would not want to wait that long to be paid.
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Traffickers can get prepaid cards (with hundreds of dollars on it) which are easier to pack than cash.
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Alongside those forces are notorious migrant traffickers, including Abdul Rahman al-Milad, also sanctioned by the United Nations.
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In the past, agents have been criticized for the use of dubious informants and embedding with drug traffickers.
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Noticing that she's being watched by traffickers, Luismi offers her refuge in the shack behind his mother's house.
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I first thought the book was about drug marketing — both from pharmaceutical companies and from Mexican heroin traffickers.
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But its government says it has prioritized cracking down on wildlife traffickers in the last couple of years.
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Living in poverty with parents who struggle to meet ends meet, indigenous teenagers are obvious targets for traffickers.
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Food lines stretch outside churches and mosques; Bujar watches for human traffickers who snatch children from the streets.
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The U.S. traditionally pushed other countries to crack down on human traffickers and toughen their laws on trafficking.
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The administration is also proposing stiffer penalties for high-intensity drug traffickers, including the death penalty for some.
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Traffickers may also employ social media, dating sites and online ads to lure victims, End Slavery Now says.
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As Allan de Abreu, a Brazilian journalist, points out: "The police are always one step behind the traffickers."■
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"We're being governed by criminals, traffickers and thieves," added lawyer Matias Perez, 40, protesting with a plastic trumpet.
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Veracruz and Tabasco lie on Mexico's Gulf Coast, an area long ravaged by drug smugglers and people traffickers.
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Like most sex traffickers today, he advertised the women he sold via online classified advertising websites like Backpage.com.
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Direct cash payments ensures loyalty and are impossible to trace, allowing corrupt generals and traffickers to buy friendship.
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Into it may step organizations with cash and experienced people to compete or cooperate with the local traffickers.
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It's been known for years that bitcoin is often the currency of choice for drug and sex traffickers.
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Local bosses known as "caciques formed alliances with drug traffickers, which provided them with hit men," she said.
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Rather than targeting children, he said, the police should pursue high-level criminals and drug traffickers more effectively.
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Paul LePage says the guillotine should be brought back so there can be public executions of drug traffickers.
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The migrants come and go at the center all day, most often arriving in inconspicuous cars with traffickers.
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Caracol, however, is not ready to embrace being seen as one of Latin America's most important drug traffickers.
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There, he held business meetings with El Mayo and Colombian traffickers, and attended the baptism of Barbarino's son.
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In response to the opioid epidemic, Trump has said that the government should execute drug dealers and traffickers.
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Gholami had paid 214,21 euros to human traffickers to take him from Kamyaran, in western Iran, to Britain.
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"I'm not authorizing people who ignore Italian laws and help human traffickers to disembark," he said on Twitter.
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Those included what Italian warships would do if they encountered hostile human traffickers in foreign waters; whether they can stop arms and oil smugglers as well as human traffickers; and whether the migrants they might have to rescue should be returned to Libya, where they could face a horrific security situation.
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Some are brought to Tijuana by pimps from Tlaxcala, a small state in central Mexico notorious for sex traffickers.
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Instead, the DEA focuses its efforts on going after kingpins like Rodriguez -- along with other traffickers, manufacturers and distributors.
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Migrants hoping to reach Italy from Libya pay hundreds of dollars to traffickers for a place in a boat.
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But do I believe that narco-traffickers and despots and organizations like that will use lethally autonomous robotic weapons?
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Now that also would include human traffickers, drug smugglers and others who are exploiting that they&aposre travelling with.
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But more importantly, the vast majority of sex workers in France were smuggled into the country by human traffickers.
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Because Portugal provides easy access to numerous countries, it would have been relatively easy for traffickers to transport her.
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The traffickers' overcrowded boats, made of rubber or wood, go down in a matter of minutes if they capsize.
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Pence said that relations have improved under Moreno&aposs leadership and noted their shared fight against international drug traffickers.
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He said his department does extensive vetting of parents to make sure they&aposre not traffickers masquerading as parents.
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Traffickers have exploited Libya&aposs chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled and later killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
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Traffickers often bribe poorly paid Dominican officials to turn a blind eye to their smuggling operations, US officials say.
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But collecting money from Colombian guerrillas and narco-traffickers from thousands of miles away in the US is tough.
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They might actually be saving some lives with these things, scooping up human traffickers and stopping men with bombs.
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In Libya, people traffickers have operated with relative ease, but many migrants and refugees also set off from Egypt.
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Barangay chairmen were instructed to work with local police in providing names of suspected drug producers, traffickers and dealers.
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There may be as many as 100,000 illegal migrants in Britain, says Mr Ng, many in debt to traffickers.
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Experts say the new routes traffickers are taking don't just send cocaine north, they push people to migrate, too.
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Her organization also does community outreach to try and stop more girls from falling into the hands of traffickers.
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Some states, like Florida and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Dogs Trust found that traffickers specifically seek to enter the country at weekends because of the lack of enforcement.
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The alleged traffickers are accused of sharing drug transportation routes and obtaining their drugs from various Colombian drug organizations.
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The police are corrupt, known to take bribes, and have been implicated in working with narco-traffickers and gangs.
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Last year, the FBI said it recovered 84 youths who had been sexually exploited and had arrested 120 traffickers.
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Indonesia apparently acceded to appeals to wait for a pending case against Veloso's alleged human traffickers in the Philippines.
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An effective deal with Turkey may also push traffickers to focus on other routes to smuggle migrants to Europe.
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Beyond such measures, Mogherini said she was exploring "all possible options" that could help combat people traffickers in Libya.
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He has enlisted the help of local pastors, who now warn of the dangers of traffickers from their pulpits.
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I had a backpack with my belongings with me, but the human traffickers told me to throw it away.
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Along the way, he ordered the deaths of thousands of people, among them politicians, judges, journalists and rival traffickers.
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Other people were human smugglers, drug traffickers and some of these minors -- 245, 245, 2100.00 -- some hard-core people.
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But when they arrive they often find themselves trapped in bonded labor, having to pay off debts to traffickers.
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Vulnerability amplified It's easy to see how a natural disaster can amplify the conditions that enable and attract traffickers.
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The extent of the information Mr. Irizarry is alleged to have passed to drug traffickers could not be determined.
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Another 90 arrest warrants were issued for suspected drug traffickers, police and state prosecutors said in an emailed statement.
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Pimps and traffickers are known to mark their victims with branding irons to show their control, trafficking experts say.
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The caucus is asking: Are these children the victims of sex traffickers, or are there other factors at work?
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"It's a myth that they have created, saying that drug traffickers have invested here in Badiraguato," the mayor said.
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They explain how children are lured by traffickers, who in most cases is a known person in the village.
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Where are the calls to crack down on those who hire undocumented workers, or to go after human traffickers?
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There is a huge gap between the effort to foil human traffickers and the profits they reap from crime.
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A history of migration to Italy has fueled local hopes of easy money abroad - leaving people vulnerable to traffickers.
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"Once the money is handed over to the traffickers, it is too late," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Now Cuban officials worry that scaled back relations could degrade the improved cooperation in the fight against drug traffickers.
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Desperate for work and increasingly stateless, the Rohingya began turning to traffickers to smuggle them out of the country.
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He blamed the "fake news" media for stirring up the controversy, saying it was aiding smugglers and human traffickers.
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But if groups are disbanded, and participation is individual, they may splinter into gangs of drug-traffickers or mercenaries.
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" The report states, later noting: "Children in institutional care, including government-run facilities, can be easy targets for traffickers.
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"We are furthering the cause of child pornographers and human traffickers," said McCain about the continued inaction of Congress.
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Along the border with Burma, bandits, drug traffickers, groups opposed to the government, and other criminals are in operation.
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The postal workers were bribed by drug traffickers to deliver the cocaine while on their regular routes, prosecutors said.
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Once the drugs arrive, the 'Ndrangheta works with Italian traffickers who transport the drugs for wider distribution across Europe.
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A task force targeting interstate meth and heroin traffickers has run out of funds to pay for controlled purchases.
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"Human traffickers are using encrypted cell phones to run and conceal their criminal activities," Cooper said in a statement.
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It provoked international outrage in April last year with the execution of eight drug traffickers, seven of them foreigners.
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The details: The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next week on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act.
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He sent friend requests to a couple traffickers in Vietnam and joined the Facebook groups they invited him to.
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Blessing told me that several girls from the boat had left the camp in the company of their traffickers.
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Fazio said drug traffickers using internet ride-hailing services to facilitate business is an "interesting phenomenon," albeit not widespread.
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Globally, human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, according to the International Labour Organization.
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Rights groups welcomed the changes and said they hoped the court requirements would result in more convictions of traffickers.
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Soon, the traffickers were complaining, asking where their money was, but the management pointed to a fake banking error.
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It attributed the claim to drug traffickers who have been targeted by Mr. Hernández's own government's anti-narcotics campaign.
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With little legal protection, undocumented workers in Thailand can be at the mercy of human traffickers or unscrupulous employers.
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It also arrested more than 600 drug traffickers and captured nearly 3,500 people trying to enter the country illegally.
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The authorities hound aid workers and journalists, but they seem to look the other way from these human traffickers.
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She'd direct the federal government to prosecute gun traffickers, and revoke licenses from gun dealers who break the law.
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These children are more likely to have histories of trauma, which makes them more susceptible to manipulation by traffickers.
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Some states, like Louisiana and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Some states, like Florida and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Warships from the United States, Britain and other Western countries patrol it for pirates, drug smugglers and arms traffickers.
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Of the many chains in the drug trade, the top traffickers have always been the most enigmatic to me.
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One possible explanation: As opioid painkiller misuse went up, drug traffickers saw an opportunity for an expanded opioid market.
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While the big cartels command the attention of international law enforcement, micro-traffickers try to exploit the overwhelmed system.
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If he is re-elected next month, criminals and drug traffickers in Honduras should prepare for a final defeat.
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Many will have had fraud committed in their name by their traffickers, which also prevents them from opening accounts.
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As a result, the children were turned over to the traffickers who contracted them out to the egg farm.
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"Andrew Gillum wants to throw open your borders to gang members, human traffickers and criminal aliens," Mr. Trump said.
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Many will have had fraud committed in their name by their traffickers, which also prevents them from opening accounts.
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Traffickers and pimps lure children in foster care, homeless teens, trans teens and others who are vulnerable, she said.
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Mr. Hernández's lawyers argued that there was nothing to tie him to the drug traffickers except their own words.
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"To catch a victim, traffickers go to a station reaching the most remote communities, farmers, poorest families," she said.
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Once at the mining camps and bars, traffickers tell them they have to pay for transport, food and accommodation.
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Ríodoce had published a hard-hitting story about links between local politicians and drug traffickers, and he was concerned.
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In 28503, the Niagara County Drug Task Force raised more than $22019,000 from selling seized assets from drug traffickers.
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Mr. Shakeshaft said this city's central location, transportation network and sheer size made it an attractive waypoint for traffickers.
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Other regulations ensure products are not counterfeit, or made by human traffickers or with the help of child labor.
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In 2012, a U.S. Senate investigation concluded that H.S.B.C. had worked with rogue regimes, terrorist financiers, and narco-traffickers.
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In this country and many others, the most skilled traffickers in illegal wildlife, then, never need to smuggle anything.
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Beyond that, China's appetite for ivory also appears to be encouraging a shadowy network of traffickers working in Russia.
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Police and government officials say the stateless Rohingya refugees, who cannot easily be traced, are the traffickers' preferred mules.
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He also accepted United States aid to train specialized units of the Honduran security forces to fight drug traffickers.
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Today, there are regular and specialized police forces, but they seem unable to get ahead of the drug traffickers.
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The girl escaped and went to the police who sought Deliver Fund&aposs help in hunting down her traffickers.
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He used a military analogy to explain why the Super Bowl is an opportune time to target sex traffickers.
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The administration's next move focused on those who make a living off illegal immigration: human smugglers and child traffickers.
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Colombia's coca crop has increased since the FARC, a Marxist insurgency, disbanded, as traffickers have moved into its territory.
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"Traffickers can hide among the sheer volume online," said Dan Parkinson, an officer at Britain's anti-slavery police unit.
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It's a smart strategy — one they can carry out daily because the traffickers know our laws and legal loopholes.
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Traffickers often take passports and money, and make threats against victims or their families if they try to escape.
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"This important bill will hold online sex traffickers accountable and help give trafficking survivors the justice they deserve," Sen.
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Human traffickers are just one criminal enterprise who count on society staying mired in the mess of password authentication.
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China has some of the strictest drug laws in the world, allowing capital punishment against major producers and traffickers.
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In Libya, human traffickers await to enslave, beat, torture and rape the migrants before sending them out to sea.
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Trump has said that the federal government should execute drug dealers and traffickers in response to the opioid epidemic.
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Another SIU supervisor, Ivan Reyes Arzate, was indicted last year by U.S. authorities for selling information to drug traffickers.
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My job handles more of the policy side, such as coordinating efforts to bring down pimps, traffickers, and johns.
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Chapo waged bloody wars against rival traffickers, and was accused of personally torturing and executing at least three men.
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So those offenses can remain on the books, and drug dealers and traffickers can still be punished as felons.
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Cannabis is the most profitable substance for traffickers, accounting for an estimated 2800 billion euro share of the market.
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That's what the traffickers do: they know they're going to lose the boat, so they don't use good ones.
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"(T)his includes Gang Members, Drug Dealers, Human Traffickers, and Criminals of all shapes, sizes and kinds," he wrote.
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Oh yeah, oh yeah, it is a lot more profitable and a lot less dangerous for the traffickers than drugs.
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He said shifting the criminal charge from victim to the client would make France less attractive for pimps and traffickers.
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Traffickers often sell the pangolin meat locally and ship the scales for use in traditional medicine in Asia, mainly China.
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The Department will continue to find, arrest, prosecute, convict, and incarcerate criminals, drug traffickers, and their enablers wherever they are.
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Prosecutors accused the ship's crew of having "aided and abetted illegal migration" by colluding with the Libya-based human traffickers.
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Traffickers found new routes to export coca from farming areas in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia through Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
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Along their harrowing trip, they face the threat of sexual violence and the risk of being captured by human traffickers.
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In 2014, the Guatemalan authorities convicted 20 human traffickers, according to the 2015 U.S. State Department report on human trafficking.
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Venezuela's government is also known to have ties to Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist group, and many international drug traffickers.
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Instead, they operate through cartels, groups, and individual drug traffickers and money launderers -- the agencies or instrumentalities of the FARC.
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Critics of the so-called "kingpin strategy" say the focus on the bosses has only created more factions of traffickers.
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Still, Oracle was the only major tech company to initially support the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA).
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"Many traffickers are careful with their goods, they don't want to risk them on a dangerous sea crossing," Jensen said.
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And it was dedicated to two men who were killed in a firefight in Miami against drug traffickers in 1986.
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"In my opinion some NGOs could be financed by traffickers and I know there has been direct contact," he said.
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Officers of the United States Marshals Service have reportedly disguised themselves as Mexican Marines to join hunts for drug traffickers.
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He calls drug traffickers and other criminals terrorists and defends the use of snipers to attack them in the favelas.
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Abdel Samad, from Somalia, spent six years in Libya, saving up the money to pay traffickers to get to Europe.
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For three months, she refused, even though her traffickers beat her, withheld food and threatened to kill her, she says.
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She also believes reducing poverty will help stop women going to China seeking work, another common way traffickers lure victims.
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"You get this filtering effect decade after decade where you end up artificially selecting or breeding super-traffickers," Tree said.
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The alleged traffickers also are accused of sharing drug transportation routes and obtaining their drugs from various Colombian drug organizations.
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The political chaos and security vacuum has allowed Islamist militant groups to gain a foothold and human traffickers to thrive.
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Around 50 suspected drug traffickers were on the list in the summer of 2009, he said in a sworn affidavit.
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Traffickers have been known to abandon their human cargo in rough waters and force female and child passengers into prostitution.
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For now, lawyer Debashish Tandon said victims were still having run the risk of encountering their alleged traffickers in court.
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The police say Ms de Lima took bribes from drug-traffickers; Ms de Lima says she is a political prisoner.
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Last week's decree was part of ongoing disarmament campaigns against traffickers that started near Darfur and Blue Nile in October.
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He claimed that he had escaped from a child prostitution ring — and that the traffickers had altered his eye color.
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At least 90, including some of the governing secretariat, are still on the US Treasury Department's list of drug-traffickers.
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"El Chapo liked to work with people from Calabrian traffickers because of their harshness," said anti-mafia magistrate Nicola Gratteri.
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The traffickers charged around 500 rupees ($7) for 10 minutes, but did not pay the victims any money, police said.
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"I told them that, regrettably, I'm more afraid of the authorities than I am of the drug traffickers," Rangel said.
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About 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed since he came to power after winning the election on May 9.
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So, the DFS commander Nava (Ernesto Alterio) orders officials to shoot up the traffickers and their families in their homes.
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Self-propelled submersible vessels, often called "narco-subs," are sometimes used by cartels and traffickers to smuggle drugs across borders.
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Another said Kurdish human traffickers had forced him to work on a construction site in Turkey to pay his way.
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Smuggling networks are well established there, and the lack of an effective central government makes the job of traffickers easier.
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The press release for the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 refers to the website by name six times.
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Her traffickers kept her locked in an underground prison and abused her for months before she made it to safety.
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That same route could have been used by traffickers to move underpriced and undeclared Chinese goods to Hungary, investigators suspect.
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"Out-of-school children are at greater risk of being coerced or exploited by extremists, traffickers and criminals," it added.
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A brand-new landing craft, commissioned to repel drug-traffickers from the northern coast, is distributing food to the poor.
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And lo and behold, the contents do not match LePage's incendiary rhetoric about non-white drug traffickers in the state.
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Widodo has also been criticised by rights groups and some foreign governments for ordering the executions of convicted drug traffickers.
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Bilateral relations were chilled for years after Canberra condemned Malaysia&aposs "barbaric" execution of two Australian heroin traffickers in 1986.
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The bodies of two infants were also discovered at the old age home the traffickers were using as a base.
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Seven months later Indonesia executed another seven foreign traffickers, including two Australians (members of the infamous Bali Nine trafficking ring).
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Because so many Chinese enter Europe irregularly, guided by traffickers known as "snakeheads", it is hard to estimate their numbers.
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The Department of Justice will continue to investigate and vigorously prosecute human traffickers and vindicate the rights of their victims.
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But a growing number are becoming victims of human traffickers who sell women and girls to Rohingya men as brides.
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"It would be fantasy to say there was a coordinated plan between the NGOs and the Libyan traffickers," he said.
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The winning project, called "Spotting Trends," uses clustering analysis to keep tabs on traffickers as they move around the internet.
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Even the US Department of Justice urged against passing FOSTA-SESTA, advising that it would make prosecuting sex traffickers harder.
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One open question is whether full-on marijuana legalization would lead traffickers to focus on other drugs, such as heroin.
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Although increasingly, traffickers are being brought out of the shadows, criminals do not face any lasting consequences for their actions.
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For her recent book, " Offending Women in Contemporary China ," Shen interviewed dozens of child-traffickers and leaders of prostitution rings.
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"Cartels and drug traffickers are not stupid," said Jorge Javier Romero Vadillo, a professor at CIDE, a Mexico City university.
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Without any money, she said she cannot escape or fly home - and besides, her traffickers know where her family lives.
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The court sentenced Liu Yong to death and two other traffickers, Wang Fengxi and Jiang Juhua, to life in prison.
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Since the last reauthorization in 2013, just under 15,85033 traffickers were convicted worldwide and law enforcement identified nearly 136,000 victims.
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Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a paramilitary force under Bangladesh's Ministry of Home Affairs, also detained two traffickers.
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"Children lose trust in the authorities and that is when they become vulnerable to smugglers and human traffickers," Prashar said.
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Traffickers can cross that border freely he said, and convoys of as many as 25 vehicles then head north unhindered.
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As we have said before, the journey north is dangerous and puts individuals in the hands of smugglers and traffickers.
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But Mr. Ladd and other ranchers say there has been an unsettling swap: fewer migrants, but many more drug traffickers.
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At the time, he was on the list of most-wanted drug traffickers in both Mexico and the United States.
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Ask him how many arrested human traffickers had their charges dropped or got off with slap-on-the-hand sentences?
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With facilities overflowing, there are allegations that many children may had been lost in the system or handed to traffickers.
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He added that countries must hunt down traffickers while boosting humanitarian aid and allowing more migration to the developed world.
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Responding to pressure, the Honduran government had made some progress in addressing the challenge of drug traffickers and gang violence.
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The Treasury Department targeted four Colombian nationals and five Colombia-based businesses Wednesday for affiliations with South American drug traffickers.
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Neighboring Libya's west coast is a frequent departure point for African migrants hoping to reach Europe by paying human traffickers.
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Like other leaders, he attributed the problem to traffickers who lure migrants into taking dangerous voyages across the Aegean Sea.
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The agreement with Turkey was meant to improve the asylum process and to reduce the incentives to use human traffickers.
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"It is our strategic objective to end the impunity for human traffickers," Ebrard said at a news conference on Monday.
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Why it matters: The security vulnerability could allow criminals — like human traffickers and drug smugglers — to enter the U.S. undetected.
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The Libyan town is known to be a focal point for human traffickers and African immigrants attempting to reach Europe.
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But when they realized we weren't traffickers or police they came out and we were suddenly surrounded by 150 people.
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"In the terrorist ideology, violence against women isn't just for financial gain, like it is with human traffickers," Malik says.
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Even aside from making it harder for them to work, she said, it's made workers an easier target for traffickers.
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In 2016, Dutch investigators arrested the owner of Ennetcom, whose customers allegedly include hitmen, drug traffickers, and other serious criminals.
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"There was resistance from the criminals and eight suspected traffickers were shot and killed in the confrontation," the statement said.
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Traffickers are "inhuman and barbaric," and when caught the ultimate punishment should face prosecution, Okah-Donli said in a statement.
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It was the first institution to be systematically bribed by Colombian drug traffickers to allow cocaine shipments to transit Venezuela.
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Mexico relies heavily on its military to pursue drug traffickers and bolster security in states mired in crime and corruption.
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In 2011, the International Narcotics Control Board released a report warning of traffickers using social media to lure young clients.
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She said she told him that it was difficult to prosecute traffickers because the victims worried about breaking their oaths.
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Drug traffickers in northern Colombia have turned to drone aircraft to move illicit cargoes across borders, according to Colombian police.
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The jail has housed drug dealers, mobsters, operatives for Al Qaeda and extradited drug traffickers from Colombia, like Maria's husband.
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Above all, he is pursued by a scandal involving his aids selling presidential pardons to hundreds of jailed drug traffickers.
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So far, the rhino database has been used to convict hunters and traffickers in South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Swaziland.
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Malta has argued it cannot open its ports to humanitarian rescue ships because their activities off Libya encourage human traffickers.
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The last two administrations authorized the military to lead the fight against drug traffickers, which curbed neither trafficking nor violence.
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It also arrested more than 600 drug traffickers and captured nearly 3,500 people trying to enter the United States illegally.
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The country's war on drugs began in 2006, when then-President Felipe Calderón sent in the army to fight traffickers.
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Traffickers have locked up some migrants, forcing them to call home to have relatives pay ransoms to secure their release.
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" Ms. Nielsen maintains that "those are traffickers, those are smugglers, that is MS-13, those are criminals, those are abusers.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), introduced legislation earlier this year aimed at cutting human traffickers off from banking and financial transactions.
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Marginalized individuals often join street gangs in a search to belong, and drug gangs and human traffickers recruit returning migrants.
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Indonesian human traffickers will not be back in business because Turnbull decides an episode that dishonors Australia has to end.
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" Read: Migrants targeted by human traffickers Breaking away from the network, she says, was "the best decision of my life.
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Smugglers and traffickers and those who lie or commit fraud will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Child pornographers, predators and traffickers often use anonymizing tools, the Deep Web and unregulated virtual currencies to cover their tracks.
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By legalizing the production and sale of marijuana, Mr. Mujica reasoned, Uruguay stood to drive drug traffickers out of business.
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Eight children, the report found, had been placed with human traffickers who forced them to work on an egg farm.
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In Living Undocumented, Roberto's background story of narrowly escaping murderous drug traffickers heightens the drama and suspense of the series.
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They are often sold off to traffickers or marry young; wife beating and other types of spousal violence is common.
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Right-wing paramilitary groups, formed in the 1980s to fight leftist rebels, were financed by drug traffickers, ranchers and landowners.
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She contends that because of the narrow scope of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, the First Amendment remains intact.
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But it is also possible the children could have ended up with traffickers or people meaning to do them harm.
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Traffickers are finding ever more sophisticated ways to hide their product, says Lawrence Gibbons of Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA).
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Data analysts are also testing software they hope will sift online sex adverts to find those posted by human traffickers.
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Trump also called for the more frequent use of the death penalty in prosecutions of drug traffickers under existing law.
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They are sitting in Zurich safe-deposit boxes, probably, crossing borders with cartels and traffickers, and doing other awful things.
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For example, Brazil temporarily banned WhatsApp in 2016 because it had become a haven for drug traffickers to avoid detection.
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Girls are then taken to a spiritual priest, who conducts the "juju" rituals designed to bind them to their traffickers.
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"They call us drug traffickers, terrorists, vandals who are not worth anything," said one farmer, Hironimo Tosico, breaking into tears.
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Here are a few common red flags that I have witnessed in both dating violence and traffickers posing as boyfriends.
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The sex trafficking bill, known as the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), put the industry's differences on full display.
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The traffickers, as they're bringing their migrants through, they're constantly dumping clothing, food containers and trash on the ranchers' land.
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Unseen said traffickers were "purposefully targeting homeless people for exploitation", including making them commit crimes, most commonly through forced begging.
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Yeah, this is basically the law that, in effect, lifts Section 230 and allows for the prosecution of sex traffickers.
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During the drug-ridden 1980s, traffickers imported contraband in speedboats under cover of night, stashing the loot in riverside warehouses.
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In this country, the Trump administration does not appear naturally inclined to pursue criminal charges against traffickers in stolen timber.
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The report here also dropped a warning from the 2018 issue that traffickers prey on children separated from their parents.
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"Illegal immigrants, overwhelmingly, are not bad people," he told the Times, adding that many are exploited by gangs and traffickers.
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Some states, such as Louisiana and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Since drugs are so lucrative, drug producers and traffickers don't just cease to exist when governments detain or kill them.
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Over the past several decades, drug traffickers have come up with all sorts of ingenious ways to bypass border security.
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But they show that traffickers are very good at coming up with all sorts of ways to get around security.
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This could happen should tough border security measures make the US-Mexico border too much of a hurdle for traffickers.
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Most victims are recruited between the ages 12-14 UNICEF The goal of the new app is to build a national database of photos of the insides of hotel rooms to help law enforcement match images posted by sex traffickers to locations, in an effort to map out the routes and methods used by traffickers.
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In her previous position overseeing the Fulton County Human Trafficking Unit, Wright reportedly convicted 19 traffickers, with two receiving life sentences.
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Thousands more have drowned at sea, loaded by human traffickers onto boats unsuitable for the long journey between Libya and Italy.
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