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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1364657" data-attributes="member: 12952">2008 Trafficking Law Largely Inapplicable to Current Border Crisis&quot;William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008&quot;The &quot;William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008&quot; was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law on December 23, 2008, by former President George W. Bush. As explained in a press release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the law is named after English abolitionist William Wilberforce, who led the parliamentary movement against the British slave trade in the early 19th century. The law supplements the &quot;Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005&quot;, which amended the &quot;Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000&quot;. The aim of these laws is to prevent people from becoming victims of human trafficking and to protect women and children who are often the targets of human traffickers.Under the &quot;Trafficking Victims Protections Act of 2000&quot; and the acts that amended it, the focus is on &quot;severe forms of trafficking in persons&quot;, which the act defines as &quot;sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age&quot; or &quot;the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.&quot;Human smuggling, which is generally consensual and largely what is taking place along the border currently, is different from human trafficking, which generally is done against the will of the person being trafficked.Federal law defines an &quot;unaccompanied alien child&quot; as a person who &quot;has no lawful immigration status in the United States&quot; and &quot;has not attained 18 years of age&quot; and does not have &quot;a parent or legal guardian in the United States&quot;.<a href="http://cis.org/2008-trafficking-law-inapplicable-current-border-crisis" target="_blank">http://cis.org/2008-trafficking-law-inapplicable-current-border-crisis</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1364657, member: 12952"] [SIZE=5][B]2008 Trafficking Law Largely Inapplicable to Current Border Crisis[/B] [B]"William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008"[/B] [B]The "William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008" was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law on December 23, 2008, by former President George W. Bush. As explained in a press release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the law is named after English abolitionist William Wilberforce, who led the parliamentary movement against the British slave trade in the early 19th century. The law supplements the "Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005", which amended the "Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000". The aim of these laws is to prevent people from becoming victims of human trafficking and to protect women and children who are often the targets of human traffickers.[/B] [B]Under the "Trafficking Victims Protections Act of 2000" and the acts that amended it, the focus is on "severe forms of trafficking in persons", which the act defines as "sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age" or "the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery."[/B] [B]Human smuggling, which is generally consensual and largely what is taking place along the border currently, is different from human trafficking, which generally is done against the will of the person being trafficked.[/B] [B]Federal law defines an "unaccompanied alien child" as a person who "has no lawful immigration status in the United States" and "has not attained 18 years of age" and does not have "a parent or legal guardian in the United States".[/B] [B][url]http://cis.org/2008-trafficking-law-inapplicable-current-border-crisis[/url][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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