human trafficking - moving men, women, or children from one place to another and placing them in conditions of forced labor, including prostitution, domestic servitude, sweatshop work, and construction
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brothel - a house of prostitution
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deport - to expel (an alien) from a country; banish
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This article is about the popularity of human trafficking in Long Island, New York. It talks about a 37-year-old Chinese woman with the nickname Tracy who works at a Wantagh brothel that is disguised as a massage parlor. She was taken away from her husband and son in China in May 2000. The government made her abort her second child and take part of sterilization. Her family agreed to pay a human smuggler $12,000 and in order for her to pay it back she worked the next five years working 6 days a week 12 hours a day in Chinese restaurants. Tracy said the owner at the Wantagh brothel would make her complete every massage with a sexual act and if she didn't perform the act the owner would threaten to deport her. In the next four months Tracy was arrested for prostitution and she was too afraid to tell the police her story because she didn't want to get deported. Tracy finally decided to change her mind after her lawyer, a detective, and a prosecutor all promised that she would remain in the country if she told them her story. As a result the owner of the Wantagh massage parlor never got arrested, but Tracy was deported back to China and she didn't have to deal with being human trafficked anymore.
* I think human trafficking is ridiculously wrong and no one should be a victim of it ! I also think that people should find more ways to help stop the process of human trafficking and women, men, or children should find the courage like Tracy did to speak up and tell the police his or her story. If they tell the police their story the police can go out and do their job and that is to help stop human trafficking and helping to better the lives of others.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/28litraf.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2
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