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trafficking

noun as in contraband

noun as in smuggling

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Many of the illegal tube sites that brought the industry to its knees still exist today, trafficking in unmoderated, stolen content, operating in countries with lax copyright enforcement.

From Slate

Police in Romania and Hungary say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that convinced vulnerable people, many just out of foster homes, to work in slave-like conditions in Budapest.

From BBC

His comments this week were his most critical assessment yet of Mexico’s approach to crime and drug trafficking.

In the last several days, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth, a Fox television host and veteran who has never held a leadership post, as his secretary of Defense; Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic House member accused of spreading Kremlin talking points, as his director of National Intelligence; and Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who resigned his seat in the House on Wednesday while facing a congressional investigation into sex trafficking, as his attorney general.

He was a subject of a federal investigation of allegations of sex trafficking of minors and illegal drug use.

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