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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
estimates that 50,000 people are trafficked into or transited through the
U.S.A. annually as sex slaves, domestics, garment, and agricultural slaves. The United States is a destination country
for thousands of men, women, and children trafficked largely from Mexico and
East Asia, as well as countries in South Asia, Central America, Africa, and
Europe, for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. Three-quarters of
all foreign adult victims identified during the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 were
victims of trafficking for forced labor. Some trafficking victims, responding
to fraudulent offers of employment in the United States, migrate
willingly—legally and illegally—and are subsequently subjected to conditions
of involuntary servitude or debt bondage at work sites or in commercial sex.
An unknown number of American citizens and legal residents are trafficked
within the country, primarily for sexual servitude. The U.S. Government (USG) in 2008 continued
to advance the goal of eradicating human trafficking in the United States.
This coordinated effort includes several federal agencies and approximately
$23 million in FY 2008 for domestic programs to boost anti-trafficking law
enforcement efforts, identify and protect victims of trafficking, and raise
awareness of trafficking as a means of preventing new incidents. – Adapted
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a
victim, or believe you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help.
The toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available
to answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call
with questions - Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are
experiencing an emergency Gov't Effort to Stem Human Trafficking
Helps Very Few Editor Pueng Vongs, a journalism fellow in Child and Family Policy of
the University of Maryland-Foundation for Child Development, Commentary,
Pacific News Service PNS, Dec 16, 2004 news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=df2c06061d2a7eacf62138f61492e80f [accessed 26 August 2011] But what the ads
don't mention is, in order to take advantage of these benefits,
victims must first agree to cooperate in the criminal Investigations of their
abusers. This is not a viable option for most. Those who cooperate may
face retaliation from their exploiters or risk harm to their loved ones in
their homelands. For example, a Thai domestic worker who has agreed to
testify against her abuser may want to bring her two children from Feds charge three Kansas City-area
companies with labor trafficking www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/05/25/daily15.html [accessed 8 January 2011] “This RICO
indictment alleges an extensive and profitable criminal enterprise in which
hundreds of illegal aliens were employed at hotels and other businesses
across the country,” Whitworth said in the release. “The defendants allegedly
used false information to acquire fraudulent work visas for these foreign
nationals. Many of their employees were allegedly victims of human
trafficking who were coerced to work in violation of the terms of their visa
without proper pay and under the threat of deportation. The defendants also
required them to reside together in crowded, substandard and overpriced
apartments.” Many of the workers were
employed at hotels in the Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 8 January 2011] Shyima was 10 when a
wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the
walls of gated communities like this one, these children never go to school.
Unbeknownst to their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she
found out she was going to She arrived at Young workers in the oldest profession -
Clark County girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
The Columbian, December 6, 2008 -- Source: www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 8 January 2011] Sarah was 16 and
addicted to crack cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the
parking lot of a fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU
KNOW’
- “I can cite case after case of girls coming from average families, and once
the pimp was able to intervene, the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said.
“I know of officers’ daughters who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s
daughter, a DA’s daughter, a politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a
rebellious 15-year-old when she met her first pimp, Deandre
Green, at Human trafficking cases increase in El Paso Louie Gilot, Libertas, November 12, 2006 libertasuiuc.blogspot.com/2006/11/human-trafficking-cases-increase-in-el_12.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Gardes showed the
photograph of a field worker standing on top of a large farm truck -- a scene
common across the Southwest. His name is Ricardo, she said. He was smuggled
across the border in Sexual Slavery in C.S.I. , February 9, 2004 -- Source:
www.scientology.org/news-media/news/2004/040209.html groups.yahoo.com/group/Shetubondhon/message/7981?l=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] She was a teenage
girl from an impoverished village in Runaway raped, held as sex slave Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom,
The www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1109girlrescue09.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Since
September, the 15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with
death and sold for sex over the Internet, police said. Her captors hid
the runaway in a hollowed-out box spring covered with a piece of wood and
tucked underneath a bed in a small apartment complex adjacent to Interstate
17 in west The (ongoing) LibertadLatina, July 31, 2009 www.libertadlatina.org/LatAm_US_San_Diego_Crisis_Index.htm [accessed 8 January 2011] The articles here
below describe one of the largest known child and youth sex trafficking cases
in the ARCHIVES [Part 1 of 3] Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a
victim, or believe you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help.
The toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available
to answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call
with questions - Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are
experiencing an emergency A Blight on the Nation: Slavery in Today's Ron Soodalter,
The Carnegie Council, April 27, 2009 www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000122 [accessed 8 January 2011] Overwhelmingly,
they come on the promise of a better life, with the opportunity to work and
prosper in These people do not
represent a class of poorly paid employees, working at jobs they might not
like. They exist specifically to work, they are unable to leave, and are
forced to live under the constant threat and reality of violence. By
definition, they are slaves. Today, we call it human trafficking, but make no
mistake: It is the slave trade. For 2 refugees, a nightmare in captivity Patricia Montemurri,
Free Press, Nov. 7, 2010 pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/2182299451.html?FMT=ABS&date=Nov+07%2C+2010 [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access
restricted] Leave your family
in Kiev, Ukraine, and come to learn English and work as a waitress at a
seaside summer resort, they told the 19-year-old Katya, which is not her real
name. Instead, when Katya and a
friend accepted the offer and flew to the For nine months,
Katya and her friend, who spoke no English, lived in a Human Trafficking Class Action Case Filed
in Mississippi www.prweb.com/releases/2011/10/prweb8920562.htm [accessed 30 October 2011] Court documents show
these immigrant workers signed the loan agreements because they had been
given employment offers for work in the Tampa man is fifth suspect arrested in
human trafficking case Kameel Stanley & Jamal
Thalji, [access information unavailable] Police have
arrested a fifth man in connection with what authorities believe is the first
human trafficking ring in the area that involved local women as victims. The warrant details
how the ring lured one woman in with promises of financial help, then took
her captive, repeatedly raped and beat her, then prostituted her and other
women at a Pinellas County strip club. Helping those hurt by human trafficking CJaye, May 23, 2009 –
Source: legal-ledger.com/item.cfm?recID=11817 www.nowpublic.com/world/helping-those-hurt-human-trafficking [accessed 8 January 2011] Bukola Oriola came to But her life here
quickly became more of a nightmare, Bukola, 32,
explained in fluent English at a state Capitol news conference on
Thursday. During the next two years Bukola became a victim of human trafficking – at the
hands of the man she married. “I was alone in the
house. I cried to go out. I was always looking forward to Sunday to go to
church,” Bukola said. When she was pregnant, the man had her
confined to the house. After she gave birth, she was turned into the man’s
sex slave. When the man realized she could braid hair, he’d have her work in Pinellas deputies: 3 arrested in human
trafficking case Ray Reyes, The [accessed 8 January 2011] A waterfront home
became a prison for several women who were told they would be taken care of
but were instead forced into a life of prostitution, authorities say. The women also had to dance at clubs in
the Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes Barry Estabrook,
Gourmet Magazine, March 2009 www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-price-of-tomatoes?currentPage=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] The beige stucco
house at Lucas’s “room”
turned out to be the back of a box truck in the junk-strewn yard, shared with
two or three other workers. It lacked running water and a toilet,
… Everything had a price. Lucas was soon $300 in debt. After a month
of ten-hour workdays, he figured he should have paid that debt off. But when
Lucas—slightly built and standing less than five and a half feet
tall—inquired about the balance, Navarrete
threatened to beat him should he ever try to leave. Instead of providing an
accounting, Navarrete took Lucas’s paychecks,
cashed them, and randomly doled out pocket money, $20 some weeks, other weeks
$50. Taking a day off
was not an option. If Lucas became ill or was too exhausted to work, he was
kicked in the head, beaten, and locked in the back of the truck. Other
members of Navarrete’s dozen-man crew were slashed
with knives, tied to posts, and shackled in chains. Trafficking victims try to remake lives Monica Rhor,
Associated Press AP, April 13, 2009 www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/apr/13/trafficking-victims-try-remake-lives/ [accessed 25 February 2013] Like dozens of other
workers from How Jonathan Abel, www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article984066.ece [accessed 9 January 2011] She came from “Rape Trees” Frame Arizona-Mexico Border:
Grim Reminders of Human Trafficking ChattahBox, March 15, 2009 [accessed 9 January 2011] A recent report
from the Cronkite News Service, a student-run news service of These “rape trees”
are becoming more common along the Arizona border counties of Pima and
Cochise, as coyotes and drug cartel members find human trafficking more
lucrative than drug smuggling. Horror of teen sex slavery not foreign woe;
it's here Alan Johnson, The [accessed 9 January 2011 – access may now be restricted] Minutes after
getting a call, "I can't
describe to you the feeling of terror. No child should ever have to know that
kind of fear. I didn't know what I was going to have to endure that night,
for how long, or if I was going to come back home." What started
innocently with Dancer in human trafficking case fears
family will be dishonored www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2009/01/16/human_trafficking_lilburn.html [accessed 9 January 2011] [accessed 4 September 2012] Shirke is one of six
entertainers that were allegedly recruited from India with promises of
profits - tips - from their dancing at the bar and restaurant, only to be
paid slave wages and have every movement carefully guarded once they arrived
in Georgia on Nov. 20. Shirke is worried the arrest of her bosses will shame her
parents and brother in The doors to the
five-bedroom house where the entertainers lived in Lilburn were always
dead-bolted from the inside by guards who stayed in the sparsely furnished
house with them, Shirke said. She said the girls,
who did not have the key to the door, were not permitted to go anywhere
without an escort. The eight
performers had signed a contract before they left Feds charge three Kansas City-area
companies with labor trafficking www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/05/25/daily15.html [accessed 8 January 2011] “This RICO
indictment alleges an extensive and profitable criminal enterprise in which
hundreds of illegal aliens were employed at hotels and other businesses
across the country,” Whitworth said in the release. “The defendants allegedly
used false information to acquire fraudulent work visas for these foreign
nationals. Many of their employees were allegedly victims of human
trafficking who were coerced to work in violation of the terms of their visa without
proper pay and under the threat of deportation. The defendants also required
them to reside together in crowded, substandard and overpriced
apartments.” Many of the workers were employed at hotels in the Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 8 January 2011] Shyima was 10 when a
wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the
walls of gated communities like this one, these children never go to school.
Unbeknownst to their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she
found out she was going to She arrived at Young workers in the oldest profession -
Clark County girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
The Columbian, December 6, 2008 -- Source: www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 8 January 2011] Sarah was 16 and
addicted to crack cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the
parking lot of a fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU
KNOW’
- “I can cite case after case of girls coming from average families, and once
the pimp was able to intervene, the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said.
“I know of officers’ daughters who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s
daughter, a DA’s daughter, a politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a
rebellious 15-year-old when she met her first pimp, Deandre
Green, at Forced labor operation busted Freeman Klopott,
The Examiner, 11/24/08 washingtonexaminer.com/article/104581#.UEZQFSJ62So [accessed 4 September 2012] MAN ALLEGEDLY
CONFISCATED THE WOMEN’S PASSPORTS AND THREATENED TO KILL THEIR FAMILIES IF
THEY LEFT For the past seven
years, federal authorities say, a Peruvian Nanny Exploited In Shocking ICE
Case KTVU News, www.ktvu.com/news/18012707/detail.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Agent Welsh and ICE
officials won't speak specifically about Dann's
case, but the complaint alleges that in July 2006, Dann
brought Zoraida Pena-Canal from Dann allegedly
confiscated Pena's passport and visa and physically and verbally abused the
nanny, threatening her with deportation if she talked to outsiders. The complaint
alleges Dann smashed Pena's radio and a television set,
to prevent her from listening to Spanish language programs that would, quote
"put ideas in her head."
Investigators say Dann told Pena: "When
you come to the www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/October/08-crt-920.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Evidence presented
at trial demonstrated that The evidence
established that Paris "purchased" two of the victims from a
co-defendant, Brian Forbes, who previously pleaded guilty to five counts of
sex trafficking and was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in
recruiting and exploiting minors and vulnerable young women into
prostitution, as well as using beatings, rapes, drug withdrawal, threats and
unlawful restraint, to compel them to perform commercial sex acts. - htcp LAGON: Modern-day slavery Ambassador Mark P. Lagon,
Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons, The Washington Times, October 6, 2008 www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/06/modern-day-slavery/?page=1 [accessed 9 January 2011] A millionaire
perfume maker in Imprisoned in the American Nightmare Ronnie Garrett, OFFICER.com, September 2008 www.officer.com/print/Law-Enforcement-Technology/Imprisoned-in-the-American-Nightmare/1$43295 [accessed 9 January 2011] Like many before
her, she immigrated to the But her dreams
vanished as she found herself living a nightmare — trapped in a house all
day, barred from speaking to anyone, and expected to work grueling hours
until she collapsed into bed at night.
"When I'd complain, they'd threaten me … and I feel so sad …
because when I was in my own country I used to work, I made friends,"
she says. "Now I come here, I'm locked in the house, not talking to
anyone, not going anywhere …" Human trafficking victim speaks out in
Aiken NBC News, Augusta,-September-15-2008 www.nbcaugusta.com/news/southcarolina/28434359.html [access date unavailable] Micheline Slattery talked
about how at just five she was forced into slavery in her native "It is really
tough when you have been programmed to believe you are worthless," she
said. "I was like, there had to be something different, something better
than what I was living. I decided I wasn't going to stay there anymore and
ran away." Now Slattery is a
nurse and when she can, she tells her story.
"I want the world to know that slavery is not history, it still
exists," she said. Brothers Plead Guilty to Enslaving
Farmworkers in www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/September/08-crt-770.html [accessed 9 January 2011] All five defendants
pleaded guilty to harboring undocumented foreign nationals for private
financial gain and identify theft. In addition, Cesar and Geovanni
Navarrete pleaded guilty to beating, threatening,
restraining and locking workers in trucks to force them to work for them as
agricultural laborers. Cesar Navarrete also pleaded
guilty to re-entering the The defendants were
accused of paying the workers minimal wages, driving them into debt, while
simultaneously threatening physical harm if the workers left their employment
before their debts had been repaid to the family. [more] All
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