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Mexico to U.S.: Promise of a better life leads to the nightmare of sexual slavery

By Alliance Alert

CNN: "According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations agency that monitors employment, standards, and social protection issues, there are about 12.3 million victims of human trafficking around the world . . . Several cases have been successfully prosecuted in states, including Georgia and New York, against prostitution rings that operate in the same way. They lure women in Mexico with promises of a good job only to be forced into sexual slavery once here . . . 'They were brought in with romantic promises, with job promises, young girls, from a certain state of Mexico, brought up, smuggled in, immediately forced into prostitution,' [Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Brock Nicholson] said."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).