The main reason of the gap between Israeli and American scope of the phenomenon is the standards of police functioning and the overall corruption of Israeli organs (or rather officers) of organized crime prevention.
In 2001 my family provided a temporary and anonymous shelter for one of Moldavian escapees of this police-pimps complicity. At that moment the local anti-trafficking NGO was simply out of legal and material resources to wage the court battles against such system, and it looks like it took seven years to reach the compromised step we read today on. The police accountability of course is not among the multiple facets of this undertaking. I guess in US the cases of foreign woman with passport taken away, incarcerated in one room and forced to "labour" daily, are scarce. Many of them come into the country on au-pair job adds. |
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