by Mindy Belz
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March 25, 2000 Issue Date:
March 25, 2000

There ought to be a law

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This month Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) plan to introduce legislation in the Senate to tighten U.S. laws on sexual trafficking. Sen. Brownback says, "It would be very defeatist of us to say that this is a problem, and we are not ever going to deal adequately with it. I think raising the issue and raising the stature of it will have an impact." Already a bill is making its way through the House. Both measures aim to:

tighten prosecution and sentencing guidelines for convicted traffickers in the United States and require convicted traffickers to provide full restitution to their victims prohibit known traffickers from entering the United States require the secretary of state to report annually to Congress on severe forms of trafficking withhold some forms of U.S. foreign assistance from countries that do not meet minimum standards to prohibit trafficking grant non-immigrant alien status to certain victims, alleviating the immediate threat of deportation eliminate jailing or fining of victims merely because they were trafficked.

Mindy Belz

Mindy, a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine, wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans and is author of They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides in Asheville, N.C.

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