Human Smuggling

The advice of a friend to stay near the door of a semi-trailer may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomas from the deadly end that 53 other migrants met when the truck was abandoned last week on the outskirts of San Antonio. Cardona…

At least 46 people believed to be migrants were found dead in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio on Monday, according to law enforcement officials. Sixteen others, including four children, were found alive and taken from the…

Six Indian citizens who tried to enter the United States illegally and didn’t know how to swim were rescued from a sinking boat in northern New York, federal court documents stated. A seventh individual, a U.S. citizen who made his…

Indian police have detained six people in a crackdown on illegal immigration after four Indians were found frozen to death near the border between the United States and Canada last week, officials said on Thursday. Hundreds of…

The Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as its planes and ships searched for 38 people missing off the coast of Florida, four days after a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in a storm. The accident killed at…

The U.S. Coast Guard searched on Tuesday for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas. A good Samaritan called the Coast Guard…