California top spot for human trafficking in U.S.

Editor: Yan Liang
Xinhua News Agency
12/06/2007

LOS ANGELES, (Xinhua) -- California is the top destination in the U.S. for human traffickers who force women and girls into hard labor and sex trade, local TV channel ABC 7 reported Wednesday.

A new report released by the state's anti-human trafficking task force shed light on how bad the problem is in California, and the team wants police and prosecutors to have more power to fight these crimes.

Though exact numbers don't exist, thousands are somehow brought in across the borders and coerced into the sex trade or hard labor, officials and activists said...

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