Kansas City infoZine - Human Trafficking Victims Need More Protection, Committee Told - USA: "Human Trafficking Victims Need More Protection, Committee Told
posted by :: infoZine Staff :: 07/09/2004 @ 06:45:14 AM :: views
by Jacquelyn Cole - Efforts to arrest criminals who force thousands of foreigners into the United States and sell them for sex and labor are improving, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday.
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, Washington, D.C. - But the witnesses also said federal law does not adequately protect victims - the most likely to identify their captors - who fear government punishment, making it difficult for law enforcement officials to identify either.
Criminals force an estimated 15,000 men, women and children into the United States each year under false pretenses, in a practice called human trafficking"
