The U.S. government placed tens of thousands of migrant children in unscreened homes without even writing down the phone numbers or addresses of the adults in charge, a congressional investigation revealed.
Forty-five Burmese fishermen have been rescued from Indonesia, where they had been placed by human traffickers after traveling with fabricated documents.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported that the number of children exploited in sex abuse cases in the US has risen to “epidemic” levels recently.
Senators questioned the integrity of the human-trafficking report after the Obama administration dropped Malaysia and Cuba from the report’s blacklist.