Crime ❯ Human Smuggling

Illegal Immigration

Law Enforcement Border Security Criminal Charges Smuggling Networks Trafficking Border Control Maritime Crime Gang Activity Cross-Border Crime Smuggling Gangs

Channel Crossings Top 10,000 This Year as Small‑Boat Arrivals Surge

Calm conditions have created a launch window that smugglers are exploiting with more arrivals likely in coming days.

Coast Guard Disables Boat Carrying 25 Chinese Nationals Off Florida Coast

Mexican Smuggler Sentenced to 87 Months for Leading Global Human-Smuggling Ring

Coast Guard and Turks and Caicos Interdict Overcrowded Haitian Boat

Texas Troopers Find 20 Migrants Hidden in Truck Sleeper During Laredo Traffic Stop

22-Year-Old Indian National Pleads Guilty in Northern Border Smuggling Scheme

Padres Prospect Humberto Cruz Self-Deports to Mexico After Plea in Smuggling Case

Two Women Die After Packed Channel Dinghy Runs Aground Off France

UK and France Sign 3-Year Deal to Curb Channel Crossings With Results-Linked Funding

UK and France Renew Three-Year Channel Migration Pact With Results-Tied Funding

At Least Four Dead After Channel 'Taxi-Boat' Wreck Off Pas-de-Calais

BMA Probes Bus Cleared at Beitbridge Found With 32 Undocumented Passengers

At Least 40 Dead as Migrant Boats Fail Off Turkey, Lampedusa and the English Channel

At Least 22 Migrants Die After Days Adrift Off Crete

More Than 200 Migrants Rescued From Trailer at Xalapa Tow Yard

French Rescue 78 in Channel as Crossings Top 4,000 and UK Presses Tougher France Deal

Returned Channel Migrants Caught Re-Entering by Lorry as Warm Weather Fuels New Crossings

Shamima Begum Accused of Plot to Fund Smuggled Escape to Force UK Return

Diver Describes Severe Head Trauma in Chios Migrant Boat Collision as Death Toll Hits 15

Cranston Inquiry Finds Deaths in 2021 Channel Disaster Were Avoidable, Urges End to Small-Boat Crossings