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Richard Blumenthal: “The State Department Trafficking in Persons report from June 2017 showed that labor trafficking prosecutions dropped to…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2017
The State Department Trafficking in Persons report from June 2017 showed that labor trafficking prosecutions dropped to just 5 percent and labor trafficking convictions dropped to 3 percent of overall human trafficking cases in the United States.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing the decline in labor trafficking prosecutions and convictions.

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