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INSTITUTE INDEX: Protecting the migrant workers who rebuild after climate disaster
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Protecting the migrant workers who rebuild after climate disaster

Number of Venezuelan migrants in New York City — many of them bused there from Texas by state officials protesting President Biden’s immigration policies — who have hopped onto vans headed to Florida to pursue vague promises of private-sector jobs in the Hurricane Ian recovery, even though community organizers have warned of human trafficking and recruitment fraud:…

What the survivors of human trafficking deserve – New York Daily News
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What the survivors of human trafficking deserve – New York Daily News

In our adversarial legal system, prosecutors and public defenders don’t often see eye to eye. But as the Manhattan district attorney and veteran attorneys for the Legal Aid Society, we agree on this: Survivors of human trafficking should not be criminalized. A 2021 state law gives judges wide discretion to free trafficking survivors from the…