On the recordApril 10, 2018
If you are smuggling drugs, your assets can be seized. If you are smuggling human beings, you cannot seize their assets. That is a change that has to be made in the statute.
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congress.govJohn Rice Carter: “If you are smuggling drugs, your assets can be seized. If you are smuggling human beings, you cannot seize their assets.…”
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Carter advocates for legal changes to address human trafficking more effectively.
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