Frictionless travel facilitates trade — and human trafficking
By DW
02 November 2019 |
11:11 am
People are being trafficked to the UK and security isn't tight enough to keep them from trying to sneak into trucks headed across the English Channel, a harbormaster and trucker in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge told DW.
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