Threats constitute the big difference between labor violations — “not paying you but you’re free to leave this job if you want,” Jimenez says — and labor trafficking, which is “threatening you to stay in this situation and not try to get help.”
The campaign against trafficking targets Spanish speakers through ads on Spanish-language radio and television. It focuses on people brought into the country for work or sex, not people smuggled across the border by coyotes just to get to the United States and then left free once they get here.
Jimenez says the alleged victim of sex trafficking had been relocated by Standing Against Global Exploitation — the nonprofit that counsels women arrested for prostitution in San Francisco, which is partnering with the consulate in the campaign. The consulate has handed over the two cases to the police, which is following up on the investigation, but Jimenez says she couldn’t release more details.
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