Tennessee: A group of Mexican workers files a lawsuit against their former employer for exploiting them with labor. They claim that they were under constant threats and surveillance. Their employers also allegedly took away their passports and immigration documents and forced them to live in company housing, where they were not allowed to leave without permission.
Illinois: Cook county makes the first conviction under the new human trafficking law. A 46 year old man was convicted of "involuntary servitude, trafficking in persons for forced labor and pandering, and faces up to 30 years in prison." According to the prosecutor, he threatened to beat or kill victims if they refuse to prostitute and turn over the profits to him.
Georgia: A man was convicted of sex trafficking women and sentenced to 40 years in prison in federal court. According to the prosecutor, he and his co-conspirators lured young girls from Mexico into coming to the U.S. and forced them into prostitution. They also "beat the girls with wooden and metal rods, disfiguring them permanently, and threatened their families in Mexico if the girls tried to get away."
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The Philippines: Police rescued 80 women from alleged trafficking ring that was planning on sending them to Malaysia and Middle East. Police also said that the Filipino women were about to be sent to Malaysia, Egypt, Libya, and Lebanon. The women were recruited from nine providences and the capital city.
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