With an estimated revenue of $4 billion to $12 billion a year, the smuggling of migrants has joined drugs and extortion as the top income stream for criminal groups in Mexico, Central and South ...

2 men convicted in charges tied to human smuggling, death of Indian family at Canadian border More than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to enter the U.S ...

The smugglers are brothers and run the business out of their family home, smuggling people into the US with the help of one brother’s 14 year-old son. Makeshift ladders laid out in the backyard ...

Multiple men were later indicted by federal grand juries in connection with the smuggling operation, including 29-year-old Christian Martinez, of Palestine, Texas.

Human smuggling, on the other hand, can happen with the consent of the person being “smuggled” — but can still involve poor living or working conditions.

News 4 obtained a legal notice, filed May 7 by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, stating the government is seeking forfeiture of the property as part of the human smuggling ...

What to know about the biological pathogen allegedly smuggled into the US The pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. can be concerning for farmers but ...

Two more men suspected of involvement in the deadly smuggling incident, both of them Mexican nationals, were charged on Tuesday in U.S. federal court with being illegal immigrants in possession of ...

A Chinese national accused of smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" via a noxious fungus into the U.S. appeared in a federal courtroom in Detroit Thursday afternoon for a detention hearing.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a Senate panel on May 15 that smuggling is "lining the pockets of transnational criminal organizations." (Video: Senate Homeland Security and ...

The sophisticated smuggling network that some experts believe generates at least $1 billion a year for Iran and its proxies has flourished in Iraq since Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani took ...