Trafficking Victims Protection Act Of 2000 (TVPRA)

Here in Michigan, Michigan state police and Michigan state attorney general say some of their cases of human trafficking happen on Mackinac Island. Human trafficking--mainly labor trafficking--has occurred in this area right here in our own homeland; human trafficking can happen anywhere and affects those that are most vulnerable. Although human trafficking is a complex social problem that preys on society 's most poor and vulnerable, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act hopes to address prosecution of traffickers and justice for the trafficked. This paper will explore the economic, political, ideology, social movement 's, and history of human trafficking and how the TVPA can relate and is working towards change.

Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.

The policy under analysis is the H.R. 4980 (113th): Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014. It was introduced to Congress on June 26, 2014, and it was enacted on September 29, 2014 (Civic Impulse, 2017). The law was enacted to target several problems: first, to prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care (Subtitle A); second, to improve adoption incentives and extending family connection grants (Subtitle B); and third, to improve international child support recovery (Subtitle C) (Children’s Defense, 2014). The law cites the definition of ‘sex trafficking’ from the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) as, “The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person

The response to victims was the ‘visas’ system. The Federal Government also the “Support for Victims of People Trafficking Programs” This was integrated into the visas system, this program provides individualized case management. A person is identified as eligible by the

The Tier System, set in place by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), is subject to political misinterpretation and biases concerning what data should be deemed as relevant, which undermines the integrity of the report and its ability to combat human trafficking. Many critics believe that the primary cause of political manipulation or misinterpretation is trade and commerce restrictions set in place by President Barack Obama in 2015 aimed at Tier 3 nations. Nations that are vital to U.S. trade and are not working to fight human trafficking are avoiding downgrade for the benefit of the United States. Political opponents of the Tier System have began to mention two nations in particular, China and Malaysia, that were recommended to be placed on Tier 3, but instead were placed on the Tier 2 Watch List. A suspected link between these nations not being placed as Tier 3 and the Trans Pacific Partnership have been made by the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank) and Reuters (a multinational news agency). For example, “If Malaysia had remained Tier 3 [in 2015], it would have proposed a potential barrier to Obama’s proposed trade pact…” (Reuters). Why is the idea of possible political manipulation important? If political manipulation can happen in any system or policy, why should we care? It is imperative and relevant to our world today regarding human rights, and it is something to be apprehensive about, especially in the case of the Tier System. Many defendants

Traffickers continue to be in this cruelest method of oppression because human trafficking remains highly lucrative. The United States efficiently fight against the global as well as the country’s slavery by providing legal protection and post psychological development to the victims. This modern human right issue in the United States was made illegal when it passed the Trafficking Protection Act (TVPA) in October 2000, and later under reauthorization, Congress established a private right of action for victims of human trafficking into or within the United States to bring a civil action against their perpetrators. It is designed to combat human trafficking in America and abroad and through it, human trafficking victims qualify for governmental protection and services (Pierce). This enables the victims to sue and collect damages from

Human trafficking has been known to be a tragic and unfortunate crime of the 21st century. Social workers, policy makers, and other human service providers must understand the various policies and forms of legislative involvement that are working towards combatting this issue. For the purposes of this policy analysis, I will be analyzing The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and the implications that it has for social workers and those who are invested in working towards abolishing this social issue.

A significant feature to the VTVPA is that the United States will penalize countries if they do not comply with the VTVPA (Holman, 2009). This is an imperative feature and I think that it should be implemented throughout every single piece of legislation that deals with trafficking. Countries should be held accountable if they do not comply. The only way that sex trafficking can be officially over is if every single country complies with all the legislation. The United States looks at six different factors when deciding if they have met the criteria for eliminating trafficking. The United States looks at whether the country has investigated and prosecuted severe forms of trafficking, if they protected the victims, educated the public,

Furthermore, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 was best known for providing the framework to respond to human trafficking (Feldman, 2011). Likewise, it also helped for the redesigning of the laws in the United States by making sex trafficking an individual crime and allowing the government to focus on the victims. Even though this law has been reauthorized in 3 years the latest time, 2008, is the one that actually strengthens protections for the victims as well as, improves the protections for the victims. While this law already helped to develop people to prohibit the crime, the reauthorization of it, created a new set of criminal tools to reach unscrupulous labor recruiters (Feldman, 2011). Although the revisions of this law

There have been many federal laws that have been developed in the United States due to the problem being more prominent and recognized in the United States. One of the laws in the beginning that helped with combating human trafficking was the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which the federal law of human trafficking is based on. The Trafficking Victims Protect Act of 2000 states that developed techniques to prosecute human traffickers, stopping human trafficking, and ways to shield the victims of human trafficking, as well as way to survive being involved in human trafficking. This act was developed so that the crimes of human trafficking could be considered a federal crime, so as a result could have harsher penalties to the human

In 2006 with the appointment of Brad Schlozman as Western District U.S. Attorney under the Bush administration, Human Trafficking took top priority. After filling their first case the Western District received US$450,000 in grant to combat the issue. (Duncan 2013) In 2004 Florida followed states like Missouri, Texas and Washington in which trafficking became a felony. Yet these efforts are beneficial in the prosecution of the traffickers, undocumented victims still are limited in receiving care and benefits so greatly need. Due to their undocumented status some juvenile have been advised to maintain their assumed names that are legally documented in the United State in order to receive the care and treatment they need. (Carr 2012:89)

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was passed by the U.S Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 2000. This federal statute possessed the ability to protect the undocumented whom were victims of extreme cases of trafficking. In order for an applicant to be granted the T-Visa, a visa allowing victims and immediate family members to remain in the country, the victim must prove that they were in fact a victim of an extreme form of trafficking and they must also aid in the prosecution of their trafficker.

California seems like such a nice state, but human trafficking is a huge problem there. Human trafficking is the act of moving humans illegally from one country or area to another for forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. California is one of the top four destination in the US for human trafficking to happen due to the large amount of airports, harbors, a strong economy, international borders, and a big group of native and immigrant populations. In 2002, the Department of Justice said that in California, 14% of all victims of human trafficking received help which is only a small percentage. Statistics show that victims are too scared to admit they have been trafficked or don’t want to cooperate with the laws which is why only a small

Despite many efforts to stop human trafficking in general, there are still many underground dealings of trafficking that happen while we speak. People who were kidnapped, and have yet to be seen, have not been crossed off as possible victims of this horrendous act. Why has the government done nothing to stop human trafficking dealings if it outlawed slavery? Because they are frightened to reveal the horrors of the world to its people and they want to control us by promising us something will be done, but it is often never mentioned again. The American government enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, better known as the TVPA, in 2000 and it expired in 2011. After six years, they finally decided to reintroduce this bill and hoped Congress

recruited by loose knit groups that seek out kids who may be involved in drugs or