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Not a punchline in America
I think this is a great article and will definitely watch Frontline, but like several posters mentioned, the line about this being little more than a punchline in America is just wrong. In 1999 a group of women I know formed an organization called Women Against Global Trafficking here in Houston to shed light on this problem here in the U.S. There are many "modeling studios" in Houston that are fronts for sex businesses peopled by South Asian women who were forced into the sex trade against their will. I've also read reports that many illegal immigrant women from Mexico are forced into the sex trade in the U.S.