Mr Humphrey said the only winners in the multi-million pound industry were the human traffickers and pimps.
This includes human traffickers, who promise to help desperate people start new lives overseas, but often abandon them at sea.
"Human traffickers abuse innocent people, undermine our public safety and often use their illicit proceeds to fund sophisticated criminal organisations, " he said.
Human traffickers often lure illegal job seekers with promises of lucrative employment in Malaysia, Thailand and other South East Asian nations and take them in overloaded boats.
Cecilia Flores-Oebanda has spent her life fighting -- as a child for some education, as a teen rebel against a dictator, and for more than 20 years against human traffickers.
Human traffickers often lure illegal job seekers with promises of lucrative employment in Malaysia, Thailand and other South East Asian nations and take them in overloaded boats, our correspondent adds.
"There are more victims of human trafficking in our jails than traffickers, " she said.
As the fight against human trafficking progresses, however, so too does the strategy used by the traffickers.
Her case had been taken up by the British human rights charity Reprieve, which said she had been "targeted by drug traffickers who exploited her vulnerability and made threats against her children".
BBC: Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford
Her case has been taken up by the British human rights charity, Reprieve, which said Sandiford was "targeted by drug traffickers who exploited her vulnerability and made threats against her children".
"From today, the Sangatte centre will no longer draw would-be illegal immigrants to northern France and traffickers will no longer be able to use it to ply their evil trade in human life, " Mr Blunkett said.
应用推荐