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‘Operation Silver Spur’ was carried out in Florida’s Osceola County throughout June, the agency said.
The arrests mark the second major federal enforcement operation in the area in less than a year.
A Virginia-based legal clinic works to remove criminal record barriers that often follow survivors long after trafficking ends.
The operation builds on ‘Project Hope,’ a similar initiative launched during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Thirteen of those found in the truck face immigration charges, while the remainder are expected to be immediately deported from the United States.
The arrests were made during a yearlong investigation dubbed ‘Operation Volcano’ in California’s Riverside County.
Prosecutors say the defendant, arrested in Colombia at U.S. request, ran an 18-month operation moving individuals through Latin America.
Officials say crypto fraud, cyberscams, and human trafficking are being committed on an ‘industrial’ scale and costing Americans billions in lost savings.
The Take It Down Act prohibits non-consensual online publication of intimate visual depictions and AI forgeries.
Some of the children were abused or trafficked, officials add.
Several minors were also recovered in the operation, officials say.
Rep. Tim Walberg said the bill would provide the Department of Labor’s employees with ’tools and knowledge needed to detect and address this heinous crime.'
The current stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security lasts until Feb. 13.
Conservative influencers Nick Sortor and Cam Higby were involved in a clash with demonstrators.
Charges against the cartel members included murder, robbery, extortion, kidnapping, money laundering, and drug trafficking.
Under this administration there is ‘less fentanyl killing Americans, less sex trafficking of women and children,’ border czar Tom Homan said.
Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth also sought to access Broadview’s ICE processing center on Friday.
The U.S. State Department has identified China as one of the countries engaged in state-sponsored human trafficking, for the sixth consecutive year.
The event took place at Liberty Science Center and was co-hosted by Voices Against Trafficking and IMAG Media.
Rubin was arrested this morning in Fairfield, Connecticut, and will be arraigned Friday, officials said.
