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sex and labor, and child sex and labor trafficking, and results in 2–20 years in prison if the victim is or over 18, and 5–99 years if the victim is under 18. Healthcare workers or people who interact with patients in
Houston must take a mandatory "prevention course on human trafficking" because of the Texas House Bill 2059. The Texas House Bill 1121 is responsible for creating the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force who implemented required trafficking trainings for educators in cities throughout Texas. The White House awarded Houston the Presidential Award in 2018 for being a "national model for building anti-trafficking infrastructure at the municipal level". An example of municipal effort to combat trafficking is Houston's "Ten Municipal Fellowship", a two-day program where solutions to trafficking were tracked in the 18 cities that participated. Houston is a part of CEASE, a collaborative initiative of cities committed to reduce sex trafficking by comparing how the same issue is addressed in cities with high sex trafficking activity. Houston was also the first of the major U.S. cities to implement anti-trafficking pieces of legislation. This includes that hotels in the Houston area will need to conduct anti-trafficking trainings for employees. Although the Houston Police Department covers most human trafficking cases in Houston, other agencies such as the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Houston Independent School District Police Department (and the police departments at other Houston school districts), and Harris County Constable’s Office are also allowed to intervene in cases around the Houston Area.
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homeless population of about 3,223 in
Houston is a group most at risk of trafficking. Another contributor to high trafficking activity in Houston is the amount of undocumented immigrants, since traffickers use their illegal passage as leverage to exploit them. About 100,000 undocumented immigrants reside in Houston, making another portion of Houston's population at risk of trafficking. Houston has a very diverse population, ranking 4th out of all cities in the U.S. in 2023. This contributes to high trafficking risks because victims are able to blend and be hidden more easily in a more diverse population, especially when the population of 6 million people is constantly growing.
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of responders saying people have no knowledge about the subject, 54.8% having little to no knowledge, and 11.9% saying people have some knowledge. A measure of data used to understand the human trafficking industry is the cost of risk to traffickers. The higher the cost of risk for traffickers and consumers means the less likely a trafficking ring will successfully operate in that region. Houston has a $ 66.85 cost of risk for traffickers, which is 6 times lower than the neighboring county McLennan's cost of risk for traffickers, $ 441.05. In 2019, data only from
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Houston. Interstate highways and a close proximity to the border makes it easier for traffickers to access different markets and avoid legal investigations. The short distance from the US-Mexico border to
Houston makes legal and illegal immigrants a big target for human trafficking because of their need for employment opportunities or passage to the United States, making Houston a "popular entry point". Houston's
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Trafficking, a Houston-based organization, the number of labor trafficking victims is much greater than the number of sex trafficking victims, however is not talked about as much and is not identified as easily as sex trafficking is. Labor trafficking in Houston will involve the exploited labor of
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Houston to other major cities, making it an "internal circuit" where traffickers move victims throughout countries, making it the United States' main human trafficking route. Major highways used to smuggle women, men, and children from the border have often lead to "stash houses" in
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were suspected of transporting hundreds of immigrants from
Central America to Chinese restaurants, resulting in charging 32 suspects and arresting 44 individuals. A couple in Houston was arrested in 2016 for forcing a woman they lured from Nigeria to work 20+ hours a day as their nanny while holding
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Houston applies the Texas Penal Code § 20A, or the
Trafficking of Person's law, allows police to make an arrest if they suspect any involvement human trafficking related activities, and was amended in both the 86th Texas Legislature (2019) and 88th Texas Legislature (2023). This law addresses adult
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Many studies have been conducted to gather data about human trafficking in
Houston. In 2006, 25% of trafficking victims rescued in Texas came from Houston. In 2010, individuals were asked to estimate how informed they think Houston's general public is about human trafficking in the city, with 33.3%
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Brouwer, Leah Gordon, Teresita Rocha-Jimenez, and Hugo Staines. "Vulnerability Factors and Pathways Leading to Underage Entry into Sex Work in Two Mexican–US Border Cities." Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk 6, no. 1 (2015):
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conducted a survey to figure out what kept victims from leaving their "trafficking situation", and had 64% of their responders answer with their "lack in affordable housing". This explains traffickers tactics of luring victims by providing housing in apartment complexes across
Houston and why the
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Labor trafficking, although may overlap with sex trafficking in terms of forced labor, has its own circle of issues. Labor trafficking is defined in short as "exploitation of an individual for financial gain" by the governmental Office of Justice programs. According to a spokesperson from United
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Vice Squads in exchange for disregarding the 3-foot rule, distance between schools, and topless regulations for dancers at these clubs. According to data from a Houston based study, 77% of those who left working at strip clubs through the help of Rescue America (non-profit organization) 77% were
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underage, and 85% were working at these clubs because they were working under a trafficker or pimp. Occurrences of sex trafficking in Houston strip clubs has continued to be evident, with 3 men sentenced after smuggling women from Cuba and forcing them to work at clubs in the Houston area.
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is the worst of any U.S. city. Between 2007 and 2016 the city ranked first for reported trafficking cases, while in 2019 the number of cases nearly doubled compared to the previous three years, despite Mayoral initiatives, due to the highly organized nature of this criminal business.
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that are most involved in trafficking are "hotels, restaurants, factories, farms, child care, massage parlors, health care, and sexually oriented businesses". These industries are connected to two popular forms of human trafficking in Houston,
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Organizations have been making efforts to end the issue of trafficking in the Houston area by reaching out to communities. This includes the work of non-profits and/or Government funded groups.
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A "hospital-based program" created by city officials to better care for trafficking victims and provide the necessary resources which will help others to leave the life forced upon them.
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The governmental Office of Justice programs defines sex trafficking as "a form of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation". Scholars and activists have recognized
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port makes up 73% of the national's Gulf Coast traffic, due to the 200 facilities in Houston's ship channels. It has been known that there is a chance of ships traveling through
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