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Payments to smugglers have exceeded $16 billion in the last 15 years…
Refugees pose an overwhelming humanitarian crisis for Europe. As hundreds of thousands seek safety, they are paying immense sums of money to smugglers. Europe’s crisis is not only an urgent humanitarian disaster, but it has also increased the incredibly lucrative industry of human trafficking.
Kanti Salgadu knows what it means to be treated like property. At nineteen, she left Sri Lanka for Los Angeles, promised a good job. Instead, she was forced to cook, clean, and care for children around the clock for four years. Her traffickers took her passport and told her she had been “bought.” Now, decades later, she’s fighting for others. Following pressure from the Freedom United community and other advocates, Governor Gavin Newsom signed
| Wednesday November 5, 2025
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