Smuggling of Forced Laborers Rife, U.S. Says
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Up to 20,000 women and children are smuggled into the United States from Mexico each year to serve as forced laborers or prostitutes, the U.S. State Department’s top monitor of human trafficking said.
John Miller called on U.S. and Mexican authorities to work together to combat the problem. He spoke at the inauguration of a shelter for at-risk children in Tijuana.
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