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Catherine Cortez Masto: “The most recent State Department Trafficking in Persons report showed that labor trafficking prosecutions dropped to…”

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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