Luis CdeBaca: “China undeservedly received an upgrade from Tier 3, an egregious violator of human trafficking, to Tier 2 Watch List…”

Eleven years ago this afternoon in fact, on a similarly rainy day in October, President Clinton recorded his radio address to be broadcast on the morning of October 28, 2000, the day that he signed that groundbreaking legislation into law…

Malaysia's unsubstantiated upgrade is particularly alarming because of its overt importance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

We have found a strategy that works. Now is the time to build on successes, however, for the sake of the 21 million people--Free the Slaves puts that number at 27 million people--who are captives of modern-day slavery.

This bill will give the State Department's trafficking team the leverage necessary to allow it to advocate most effectively on behalf of the victims of trafficking.