Reaching across party lines to end modern-day slavery
Printer-friendly version Date of publication: December 4, 2007
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Author: Zoe Lofgren and Dan Lungren
They are age-old stories. Women brought to the Bay Area from China with false promises of life in a far-off land, only to be trapped in prostitution. Latino men laboring in debt bondage on ranches and farms in inland valleys. These stories may be redolent of the Gold Rush and frontier days, but in fact are situations that have been uncovered in present-day California. Some call it human trafficking, perhaps to make the crime less disturbing to confront. We call it modern slavery. It must be stopped...
