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On the recordJuly 11, 2017
The most recent State Department Trafficking in Persons report showed that labor trafficking prosecutions dropped to just 7 percent and labor trafficking convictions dropped to 2 percent of overall human trafficking cases in the United States.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Highlighting the worsening statistics on labor trafficking prosecutions and convictions.

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