ICE is the lead U.S. law enforcement agency responsible for fighting human smuggling and human trafficking.
Human smuggling is the importation of people into a country via the deliberate evasion of immigration laws. This includes bringing illegal aliens into a country, as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of aliens already in a country illegally. Some smuggling situations may involve murder, rape and assault.
ICE has embarked on an ambitious strategy to dismantle organized human smuggling networks:
10/11/2012 San Juan, PR Puerto Rican woman indicted for sex trafficking
10/11/2012 McAllen, TX South Texas man sentenced to 6 years for having sex with a minor in Mexico
10/4/2012 Houston, TX US seeks death penalty in Houston human smuggling case
9/28/2012 San Antonio, TX 64 arrested in San Antonio for soliciting prostitution in Operation 'Polar Bexar'
9/26/2012 Laredo, TX 3 south Texans sentenced for alien smuggling
9/25/2012 Houston, TX Mexican national sentenced to 36 months in prison for harboring illegal aliens