Bush Renews Anti-Slavery Law
President George W. Bush has acted to renew a law that seeks to combat human trafficking, saying thousands of teens come to America each year and are “forced to submit to unspeakable evil.”
With a stroke of the pen he renewed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Under the law, federal officials have prosecuted more than 270 traffickers — roughly three-quarters of them in the sex trade.
Victims of human trafficking in America have been found in brothels, bars, sweatshops and massage parlors — even private homes where women and girls are kept in servitude.
At a White House signing ceremony, Bush said it takes “a perverse form of evil” to exploit such “vulnerable members of society.”
Source: NBC4.TV
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