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Maurice Robinson, 25, seen in a courtroom sketch last month. The truck driver pleaded guilty Monday to two charges related to the deaths of 39 migrants — but he still faces dozens more charges.
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U.K. Truck Driver Admits Illegal Immigration Plot After 39 Migrant Deaths

Nov 25, 2019
Maurice Robinson, 25, pleaded guilty to two charges related to the deaths of dozens of Vietnamese nationals in his truck trailer. He still faces 41 more charges — including 39 counts of manslaughter.
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World
Essex police officers at the scene where 39 bodies were found in the back of a truck on October 24.
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Essex Deaths: New Arrests As Vietnamese Families Say Relatives May Have Been In Truck

Oct 25, 2019
A man and woman, both 38, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people, along with suspicion of 39 counts of manslaughter.
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Asia
Police and forensic officers investigate a truck and refrigerated trailer where 39 bodies were discovered in Thurrock, England.
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U.K. Police Say 39 Bodies Found In Essex Trailer Are Believed To Be Chinese Nationals

Oct 24, 2019
The trailer had arrived from a Belgian port shortly before authorities were called to the scene, and an investigation into possible human smuggling and murder was sparked.
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National Security
A human smuggling investigation by the military led to the arrest of 16 Marines on Thursday while carrying out a battalion formation at California's Camp Pendleton, a base about an hour's drive from the U.S.-Mexico border.
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What We Know: 'Mass Arrest' Of Marines Over Alleged Human Smuggling

Jul 26, 2019
As some 800 Marines gathered in formation at Camp Pendleton in California, 16 people were pulled out and put under arrest. An NCIS spokesperson said a total of 18 Marines have been apprehended.
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National
Jugs of water for undocumented immigrants sit along migrant trails after being delivered by volunteers for the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths. The number of immigrant deaths, mostly due to dehydration and exposure, has risen as higher border secur
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Extending 'Zero Tolerance' To People Who Help Migrants Along The Border

May 28, 2019
Scott Warren of the humanitarian group 'No More Deaths' faces three felony counts for harboring migrants. The number of U.S. citizens arrested for harboring is on the rise.
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The Two-Way

Smugglers Reportedly Toss Up To 180 Migrants Overboard Near Yemen

Aug 10, 2017
At least five migrants died Thursday — "deliberately drowned" by smugglers afraid of arrest, the International Organization for Migration says. Some 50 others are still missing.
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The Two-Way
James Mathew Bradley Jr., 60, (center) is escorted out of the federal court house following a hearing Monday in San Antonio. Bradley was arrested in connection with the deaths of 10 people packed into a broiling tractor-trailer.
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Truck Driver Charged With Human Smuggling After 10 Die In Stifling Conditions

Jul 24, 2017
James Matthew Bradley Jr., who could face the death penalty if convicted, says he didn't know dozens of immigrants were crammed in the back of a tractor-trailer he parked in a San Antonio parking lot.
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The Two-Way
Italian police images of the captured "kingpin" have prompted an outcry that the suspect in custody is an innocent man with a different name.
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Captured 'Smuggling Kingpin' Is Actually An Innocent Migrant, Family Says

Jun 09, 2016
After Italy and the U.K. announced they tracked down and captured the human trafficker known as "The General," concerns are growing that they may have the wrong man in custody.
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The Two-Way
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits the Endeavour Hills police station in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday. Abbott has declined to refute claims that his government paid smugglers to turn back would-be asylum seekers.
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Australian Leader Won't Deny Payoff Of Smugglers To Return Migrants

Jun 12, 2015
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, speaking in a radio interview, said his government would do "whatever is reasonably necessary" to stop asylum seekers from reaching Australian shores.
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