Forced Labor, Prostitution continues at U.S. Mexico Border
Summary:
The report is about the illegal transport of young women along the San Diego-Tijuana and highlights how the are brought, sold, and forced into sex labor in Mexico and the United States. The report talks about the experience of a 19 year old girl who is kidnapped and forced into to sex slavery by one of her friends, then is rescued and placed in a group home in Tijuana with other girls who also lived through similar ordeals. La Casa del Jardin is a shelter that takes in young girls of Mexican nationality, who are victims of sex labor and lets them live there until their adult age to deter them become victimizers as an adult as a result of the mistreatment in their youth. La Casa del Jardin is one of only two shelter of its kind in Mexico. The report also talks about Coyotes who illegally help immigrants make the journey from Mexico into the United States for sums of money. The Coyotes most often time face difficult obstacles while trying to reach and cross the borders so in order to make a more lucrative business they sometimes result in human trafficking, exploiting the immigrants, killing them or ask for more money to return them to their families. Mexico is looked at as a "Tier 2" country meaning that although they have taken steps to stop human trafficking they lack sufficient federal and state co-coordination to improve the situation.
Analyses:
This report highlights the unfortunate consequences that immigrants have endured while trying to make a better life for themselves and also highlights a prevailing fact about crime. The Coyotes who these immigrants trust have began to sell them into sex slavery to make a better profit which has led to a increase in human trafficking between the borders. Although places like La Casa del Jardin exist it's only one of two places in Mexico for rescued trafficked women. There no way that these two places could house all of the women who have been a victim of sex labor in Mexico so although it helps it cannot help enough people. Due to the state of Mexico's federal and state government there can't be a real strive in eliminating the problem of human trafficking in Mexico which means more people will continue to suffer. The fact of crime that I noticed this report illustrated was that you are more likely to be victimized by someone you know, than a stranger. In most cases presented in this article the victim says they were trafficked by a friend or family member or someone they had some kind of trust in.
Article:
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/forced-labor-prostitution-continues-us-mexico-border
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