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TOPLINE POINTS The Biden Administration’s open border policies are responsible for the record setting number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) trafficked or smuggled to the U.S. southern border. These vulnerable children are being exploited and abused by Mexican cartels, human traffickers, corporations, and their own families on the journey north and after the Biden Administration…
The hospitality industry has seen an uptick in recent litigation related to human trafficking. Thus far, franchisors have been successful in certain trial and appellate courts in arguing that Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) civil claims do not apply to franchisors solely because a franchise relationship exists.1 See 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a). Last week,…
Hope for Justice is delighted that the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection…
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“Human trafficking” brings to mind images of “coyotes,” ferrying migrants across the border, women held in sex trade bondage, and impoverished foreign workers trapped in brutal working conditions. These abuses happen in America, and they require a strong response. To combat these evils, Congress enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 “to combat trafficking…
PBJ Learning joins 9th Circuit Amicus Brief to support trafficking survivor whose case against Craigslist was dismissed on CDA 230 grounds AUSTIN, Texas – June 23, 2022 – PRLog — NCOSE Law Center welcomes PBJ Learning’s support of its Amicus Brief to support victims harmed by actions on Craigslist. “This precedent-setting case will impact whether…
“I remember the first time someone named what had been happening to me for the majority of my life. ‘Sex trafficking.’ It shattered everything around me. What had been happening to me since I was a toddler wasn’t normal. It wasn’t okay. It didn’t happen to everyone. I was a survivor of a heinous crime,…
Tuesday, June 14, 2022, WASHINGTON, D.C. — International Justice Mission (IJM) welcomes the recent passage of the International Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 (S. 4171) by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This important legislation was introduced by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Jim Risch (R-ID), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) on May…
by William S. Dodge and Oona Hathaway June 3, 2022 Original article here In June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Nestlé v. Doe that the plaintiffs, who were allegedly trafficked as children from Mali to Ivory Coast to engage in slave labor on cocoa plantations, could not sue U.S. companies that supported those plantations under the Alien…
WASHINGTON — The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) is pleased to announce its endorsement of four bills that will reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). The bills each address different components of U.S. anti-trafficking policy and will progress U.S. government efforts to combat the scourge of labor and sex trafficking both inside…
April 27, 2022 • 8:37 am • Terry FitzPatrick ATEST is was well represented at Wednesday’s herring of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Speakers at the session included: ATEST Director Terry FitzPatrick (see written testimony here) ATEST member organization Human Trafficking Legal Center Founder and President Martina Vandenberg (see written…
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