Laws meant to stop human trafficking are being stretched beyond comprehension once again. This time, it's drug dealers being targeted under "modern slavery" statutes.

Since then, narcotics investigators have rescued 26 trafficking victims, about 80 percent of whom had been involved in some way in the drug trade, Weaver said. “If we save one, it will be worth ...

In fact, most terrorist organizations rely heavily on criminal conduct to support their activities, such as the illicit drug trade, human trafficking, sex trafficking and money laundering.

OAS Report Charts Drug Policy Scenarios by James Bargent 23 May 2013 24 Apr 2023. Click to share ... There is also an influx of wealthy narcos into the countries that have abandoned the fight against ...

A U.N. agency estimated the total value of human trafficking at $150 billion. The comparable estimates for the drug trade range from about $280 billion to $420 billion. There is one dicey estimate ...

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, human trafficking in the U.S. is still a big business, and according to the FBI, trafficking victims are being advertised as virus-free in some online sex ads, ABC ...

STORIES ABOUT illicit drugs are often local: influenced by regional supply networks, different health care and law enforcement policies, among other things. But the latest annual World Drug Report ...

Mexico is an origin, transit and destination country for human trafficking, a global business estimated to be worth $150 billion a year. Yet relative to the drugs trade, little is known about the ...

Oct. 31 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday sanctioned five people and two entities for links to "a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking organization." Two of the five Mexican ...

In 2010, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean (CATW-LAC) reported that an estimated 1.2 million people in Mexico were victims of human trafficking.

“Every year, millions of lives are affected by transnational criminal organizations, including through drug overdose and use, violence, firearm deaths, and human trafficking and smuggling ...

Human trafficking has been reported in all 50 states. To use New York as an example, the state had 414 cases alone in 2020, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline .