Migrant Smuggling Events Disrupted Throughout the Rio Grande Valley Sector
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents and local law enforcement partners disrupted four human smuggling events. Early this
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Author: Tony Kingham
Greater efforts needed to protect the human trafficking victims struggling to access their rights, OSCE leaders say
Protecting the human rights of trafficking victims must be placed at the heart of all responses to this global crime
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11 arrests in Germany, Poland and the UK for smuggling migrants from Belarus into the EU
A cross-border operation, coordinated by Europol and involving law enforcement authorities from Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and the UK, has
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US Border Patrol, FURA Seize 898 Pounds of Cocaine near Cabo Rojo Puerto Rico
U.S. Border Patrol Agents and the Puerto Rico Police Department Joint Forces for Rapid Action (FURA, for its Spanish abbreviation)
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Frontex opens risk analysis cell in Lomé
Frontex, the European Border Guard Agency, opened a risk analysis cell in Lomé in cooperation with the Togolese authorities as
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Recovered more than 1,000 stolen vehicles and 230 people arrested in a global macro-operation
In Spain, agents have arrested 86 people and have seized 191 vehicles in Algeciras, Alicante, La Junquera, Madrid and Malaga
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9 arrested for smuggling Vietnamese migrants across Europe
With the support of Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC), a criminal syndicate smuggling Vietnamese people into and across Europe
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Strengthening border security co-operation with Mediterranean Partners focus of meeting organized with Spanish National Police
A meeting of OSCE Mediterranean Points of Contact Network on Border Security and Management, organized by the Border Security and
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EU countries record 7.5 million entries from Ukraine and Moldova
7.5 million entries to EU, including almost 6.5 million Ukrainian nationals, were recorded from Ukraine and Moldova. In the last
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Dismantled an international criminal organization based in Spain, France and Portugal dedicated to the sexual exploitation of South American women
Agents of the National Police, in an operation coordinated by EUROPOL in which the French National Police and the Portuguese
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Migrants Prevented From Attempting Dangerous Water Crossing
Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents encountered 489 migrants in four large groups and arrested seven migrants with
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Dismantled the most active criminal organization in Europe dedicated to the theft of ATMs using explosive devices
Directed by the Civil Guard and coordinated by EUROPOL and EUROJUST, in collaboration with Police from Belgium, France and Romania
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Frontex deploys unmanned aircraft to support Greece with border control
Frontex Executive Director ad interim, Aija Kalnaja, visited Crete last week to attend a demonstration of an unmanned aircraft deployed
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Europol report: latest situational analysis on terrorism in the EU
Published by Europol today, the European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2022 (TE-SAT) provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date intelligence picture
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A man from Sofia arrested for transporting refugees
A 54-year-old man from Sofia with a criminal record, transporting seven Syrian refugees, was detained today by officers of the
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Transnational illicit tobacco crime groups disrupted as part of global action on illicit tobacco trade
A prominent organised crime syndicate has been dealt a heavy blow by the multi-agency Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) after months
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Four Large Migrant Groups Encountered in Single Day
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector apprehended four large groups of migrants in just over a
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US Border Patrol, Toa Baja Police Seize 1,342 Pounds of Cocaine in Northern Puerto Rico
U.S. Border Patrol Agents and the Toa Baja Municipal Police seized 1,342 (609 Kilos) of cocaine left inside a smuggling
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