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The U.S. Department of  State released its 2010 Trafficking in Persons report including for the first time ever the rank of the United States.  In her remarks upon the release of the report, Secretary Hillary Clinton said, “The United States takes its first-ever ranking not as a reprieve but as a responsibility to strengthen global efforts against modern slavery, including those within America.”

Read the full report here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on human trafficking.

In what was billed as the largest U.S. dragnet in the war on drugs from the Southwest Border, federal officials say they have arrested more than 2,200 people, including a top Mexican cartel leader, seized nearly 75 million tons of drugs and confiscated $154 million in cash, reports the Los Angeles Times. The crackdown, “Project Deliverance,” was hailed as part of a nearly two-year, multi-agency operation in the Obama administration’s effort to fight the escalating and murderous Mexican drug trafficking operations. (more…)

The controversial fence on the southwest border has some unexpected consequences

El Paso, Texas– The ambitious high-tech fence built nearly four years ago by the federal government along the southwest border to curb the flood of undocumented immigrants is proving to be an unexpected gateway for Mexicans fleeing drug violence in their country.

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A new book tells the true story of Canada’s biggest biker bloodbath.

Early in the morning of April 8, 2006, eight Canadian members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang were murdered in a barn in the rural town of Shedden, Ontario. Twelve hours later, Toronto Star reporter Peter Edwards was on the phone with the ringleader, Wayne “Weiner” Kellestine, the Nazi-loving Bandido who’d lured his friends to his home, and to their deaths.

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Policy Analyst, Corrections Statistics Program

Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice

810 7th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20531

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FX: 202-514-1757

christopher.mumola@usdoj.gov

Press office contact, Kara McCarthy.  She can be reached at Kara.McCarthy@usdoj.gov or at 202-307-1241.

Saturday’s massacre in Juárez, Mexico,  of 16 high school and college students created a shock wave that continues to rumble across a city numbed by years of brutal and unstoppable violence, reports the El Paso Times. Twelve victims are still hospitalized with gunshot wounds, four in critical condition. Officials said investigators were questioning a suspect and that the massacre may be linked to a November shooting in which an El Pasoan was killed. (more…)