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Thailand has been moved up to Tier 2 from the Tier 2 Watchlist in the United States 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report released by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday.

A delegation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by Minister Lucian Bode, pays an official visit to the United States on May 16-18, on the...

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan expressed confidence on Wednesday that Thailand’s ranking in the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report this year would improve to Tier 2.

Smuggled into the u.s., take it from there. >> absolutely. i spent. >> sean: and raped 30 or 40 times a day. >> 30 to 40 times a day is conservative frankly what happens once they get into the united states. these kids are coming. in being trafficked. i have stories. >> sean: tell me these videos we are seeing. >> these are traffickers. these guys were making child pornography from haitian children and sending them to our pedophiles here in the united states. we are the demand. the united states...

>> it is a little strange to say hot in the 40s but yes, it is 100s. millions of people around the world are being denied their basic human rights, and theyre being used as modern-day slaves. >> the u.s. is trying to root out that injustice through its annual report on the state of global human trafficking. heres elysse labott with the details. >> reporter: there are between 20 million and 36 million slaves in the world today. right now in 2015. and human trafficking generates more than $150 b...

The numbers, merely for the trafficking in persons or tip report published annually by the u.s. government. >> translator: because it is about time for another tip report, which will rate thailand even tackling human trafficking, thai authorities want to go back up to tier 2 or tier 2.5 because last year it was tier 3. >> reporter: thats the lowest-ranking thailands ever been. the new numbers will be published in the next tip report to be released by the u.s. state department in june. and we w...

Sex ads are out and all that thing. if anyone has skin in the game, pardon the pun, to use this as an opportunity to get their message out on human traffic, it would be the global alliance. this organizations sole aim is to stop the trafficking in women. they say theres no evidence the large sporting events dont increase the trafficking and prostitution. >> i am the author of the trafficking victims protection act, the landmark law against trafficking. even when we did it in 2000, in a sayers sa...

deep enough to get a sense of whats happening here. this was really the hardest hit county so far in the state. county saw 25 inches of rain in the last several days. keep in mind also there was a wind event. this storm packed a punch. winds gusting at 45 miles per hour. strong enough to knock over several things, knock down some trees and cause a lot of problems with debris in the roads. here along this coastal road, we are finding that police are in place to make sure that drivers ar...