In an interesting twist, US Border Patrol Agents are now setting up checkpoints at the US-Mexico border and are catching illegal migrants ON THEIR WAY OUT.
From the Los Angeles Times:
U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.
At random times near the [...]

The New Yorker published a great article this week on the human trafficking situation in Moldova.
From The Countertraffickers:
Even those in the group at highest risk—poor young women—tend to see trafficking as something that may happen to someone else, but not to them. In surveys, most Moldovans say that they don’t know anyone who’s been trafficked. [...]

The US city of Houston is confronting a flood of fake identity documents that are being sold to illegal immigrants.
From the Houston Chronicle:
Illegal immigrants fearful of being caught in stepped-up workplace raids are fueling a growing market in Houston for phony immigration and work documents.
The result, experts say, is a glut of false, altered and [...]

The New York Times reports on the US immigration detention process and the lack of transparency involved. 
From the NY Times: 
As the country debates stricter enforcement of immigration laws, thousands of people who are not American citizens are being locked up for days, months or years while the government decides whether to deport them. Some have [...]

The Associated Press has an interesting story about the discretion US Border Patrol Agents maintain when dealing with immigration violations.
From the AP (via Yahoo News):
Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been nice enough to give her [...]

Children between the ages of 13 to 15 were rescued in China after authorities found then working in factories after they were kidnapped and forced to work.
From the International Herald Tribune:
China said Wednesday that it was investigating whether hundreds or perhaps thousands of children from poor areas in the southwest part of the country had [...]

International rock band Radiohead will be teaming up with MTV to produce a music video that brings awareness to the issue of human trafficking and sweatshop labor.
From Reuters:
he chart-topping group has allowed the international music network to produce a video set to “All I Need” from its latest hit album “In Rainbows” which MTV will [...]

A bill that would require large companies in California to trace the supply chain of their products to ensure that no forced labor was used advanced in the state legislature.
From the AP (via IHT):
The legislative committee sent the bill to the full Senate on a 3-2, party-line vote. Republicans voted against it but did not [...]

Telephone scammers in Mexico are capitalizing on the fears of parents in Mexico by committing “Virtual Kidnapping”, a phone scam that creates the impression that a child is held hostage. 
From the New York Times: 
The phone call begins with the cries of an anguished child calling for a parent: “Mama! Papa!” The youngster’s sobs are quickly [...]

The Philippine embassy in Singapore stated that the trafficking of Filipina women into the country is continuing. 
From The Inquirer (Philippines):
The Philippine embassy said the trafficking of Filipinas in Singapore “continues unabated.”
The embassy’s admission came six month after INQUIRER.net first reported the sharp increase in the incident of the transnational crime in the island-state.
In the report [...]