THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION …

1 GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICEWASHINGTON : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Publishing OfficeInternet: Phone: toll free (866) 512 1800; DC area (202) 512 1800 Fax: (202) 512 2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402 000120 268 PDF 2016 S. HRG. 112 938 THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT: RENEWING THE COMMITMENT TO VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 Serial No. J 112 41 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( (II) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY PATRICK J.)

2 LEAHY, Vermont, Chairman HERB KOHL, Wisconsin DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California CHUCK SCHUMER, New York DICK DURBIN, Illinois SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota AL FRANKEN, Minnesota CHRISTOPHER A. COONS, Delaware RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut CHUCK GRASSLEY, Iowa, Ranking Member ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah JON KYL, Arizona JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina JOHN CORNYN, Texas MICHAEL S. LEE, Utah TOM COBURN, Oklahoma BRUCEA. COHEN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director KOLANDAVIS, Republican Chief Counsel and Staff Director (III) C O N T E N T S September 14, 2011, 10:09 STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Page Feinstein, Hon.

3 Dianne, a Senator from the State of California, prepared statement ..59 Grassley, Hon. Chuck, a Senator from the State of Iowa ..2 Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., a Senator from the State of Vermont ..1 prepared statement ..57 WITNESSES Witness List ..21 CdeBaca, Luis, Ambassador-at-Large, Office To Monitor and Combat Traf-ficking in Persons, Department of State, Washington, DC ..6 prepared statement ..38 Leary, Mary Lou, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice, Washington, DC ..4 prepared statement ..22 Ryan, Kelly, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Immigration and Border Security, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC.

4 8 prepared statement ..43 QUESTIONS Questions submitted to Luis CdeBaca by: Senator Coburn ..87 Senator Grassley ..68 Senator Klobuchar ..81 Questions submitted to Mary Lou Leary by: Senator Coburn ..83 Senator Grassley ..62 Senator Klobuchar ..80 Questions submitted to Kelly Ryan by: Senator Grassley ..71 Senator Klobuchar ..82 ANSWERS Responses of Luis CdeBaca to questions submitted by Senators Coburn, Grassley, and Klobuchar ..89 [Note: At the time of printing, the Committee had not received responses from Mary Lou Leary.] Responses of Kelly Ryan to questions submitted by Senators Grassley and Klobuchar .. 121 MISCELLANEOUS SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Alliance To End Slavery & TRAFFICKING (ATEST), Washington, DC, October 11, 2011, letter.

5 215 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, DC, statement .. 211 Matual, Ima, Foreign National Labor TRAFFICKING Survivor, and Holly Smith, Citizen Domestic Minor Sex TRAFFICKING (DMST) Survivor, statement .. 202 PageIV United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Ambassador Johnny Young, Executive Director, USCCB Migration and Refugee Services, and Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Kenneth Hackett, President and Chief Exec-utive Officer, Washington DC, August 24, 2011, letter .. 213 (1) THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT: RENEWING THE COMMITMENT TO VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 UNITEDSTATESSENATE, COMMITTEE ON THEJUDICIARY, Washington, DC.

6 The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:09 , in Room SD 226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman of the Committee, presiding. Present: Senators Leahy, Franken, and Grassley. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. PATRICK J. LEAHY, A SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF VERMONT Chairman LEAHY. Good morning. I apologize for being a few min-utes late. The Committee will today consider the TRAFFICKING VICTIMS Pro-tection Reauthorization Act of 2011 and how best to continue and improve our efforts to end once and for all human TRAFFICKING at home and abroad. Human TRAFFICKING is a modern-day form of slavery. You cannot call it anything else.

7 It is a modern-day form of slavery in which VICTIMS are forced into labor or sexual exploitation. Traffickers prey on the most vulnerable members of society, and no country is im-mune. It happens here, even here in our own backyard. Earlier this summer, the Justice Department secured convictions against traffickers who compelled undocumented immigrant women hired to be waitresses to engage in commercial sex acts using vio-lence, fraud, coercion, and threats of deportation. Unfortunately, we hear these kinds of stories every day. Thanks to the tools pro-vided by the TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION Act, we have made progress in combating this major human rights abuse.

8 But there is more work to be done. As a country that has been a beacon of hope to so many who face human rights abuses abroad, the United States has to address this continuing injustice around the world but also here, too. The origi-nal TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION Act of 2000 and its three subse-quent reauthorizations all had widespread bipartisan support. The original bill was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by President Clinton. The most recent reauthoriza-tion in 2008 was passed by a Democratic-controlled Congress and signed into law by President Bush. 2 I am pleased that the reauthorization bill we are discussing today continues that tradition.

9 We have as cosponsors Senators Brown, Rubio, and Cochran, as well as Senators Kerry, Feinstein, Klobuchar, Boxer, Cardin, Gillibrand, and Schumer. The bipartisan support for this bill in the Senate reflects the widespread focus on combating human TRAFFICKING in diverse communities across the country. Organizations from across the political and social spec-trum, including faith-based groups and groups dedicated to human rights and women s rights, have taken up this cause. They have worked to raise awareness. State and local law enforcement agen-cies and prosecutors have stepped up human TRAFFICKING enforce-ment.

10 They have initiated local investigations. They have worked with Federal agencies in regional task forces to share information. The National Association of Attorneys General has launched a major campaign to combat human TRAFFICKING in all 50 States. More than 40 State legislatures have followed the Federal Government s lead and enacted anti- TRAFFICKING statutes. I am proud that my own State of Vermont recently passed a com-prehensive anti- TRAFFICKING law that includes criminal penalties, prevention programs, and services for human TRAFFICKING VICTIMS , and I commend a little State like ours of Vermont for taking on this important issue.