[USA] (Not) Found Chained to a Bed in a Brothel: Conceptual, Legal, and Procedural Failures to Fulfill the Promise of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
http://ssrn.com/abstract=984927
DINA FRANCESCA HAYNES
"The article outlines the myriad problems that need be addressed to carry out the promise of the Trafficking Victim Protection Act. Years after the passage of the TVPA, trafficking victims found in the United States are still too often treated like criminals by those charged with protecting them. Government personnel charged with protecting victims of human trafficking and prosecuting their traffickers, particularly outside of task forces headquartered in Washington, DC, have little or no understanding of the obligations the nation undertook in passing the TVPA and, in consequence, US personnel are working contrary to the purposes of the Act. The article suggests where procedurally and as a matter of policy, the government has gone wrong, employing a case study as a device to point to the particular problems of trafficking victims in accessing the law."