Opinion Piece 1

Laws need to be revised in order to stop/ prevent sex trafficking

An editorial by: Mayra Chavez

Border cities are the most common grounds for sex trafficking due to the fact that
it is easier to transport young women across international borders. Although it may be
tough to completely stop these horrid crimes, the government has the power to make
changes within laws to try and decrease cases. The government should revise some laws
in order to decrease this horrid problem, a suggestion for a change in a law is the
following Texas should modify its safe harbor provisions to adopt stronger child
welfare model for projecting trafficked minors which minimizes the delinquency
adjudication and criminal punishment. (Butler, p. 847) Another large adjustment that
could be made to the same law would be
changing the wording. The word
traffic is being used for people that
commit these crimes, and are only
charged with one offense, since in
domestic trafficking some Americans are
being held captive in their own cities and
towns and still being used as sex slaves.

Revising the previous, not only
allow young women but also underage
children that are taken into this industry
to be helped instead of being punished
for being victims. The changes in these
laws would help include new laws that
would help the children from being a
part of criminal activities, for example,
by helping them obtain mental health
classes or counseling. Especially, for
children that are being taken into sex
industries, those are very traumatizing
experiences that are hard to overcome.
Helping all victims of this crime should
be mandatory, including the ones that
have arrived to this country illegal. Some undocumented immigrants do arrive here
forcefully and should also be protected.

By making these changes in our government we can make this issue decrease in
hope to one day end it. Slavery is a serious crime, not only in the U.S. but internationally.
Improving and revising laws should help protect anyone that is in danger in the country.
This is a very serious matter because it affects everyone around us, obvious or not,
because this crime is being committed all over the world, even in the border cities of the
U.S.
Opinion Piece 2
References:

Butler, C. N. (n.d.). Sex slavery in the lone star state: Does the texas human
trafficking legislation of 2011 protect minors? Retrieved from Academic
Search Complete database. (Accession No. 83237797)

20 Years Dream Center (n.d.).Human Trafficking. Retrieved from:
http://www.dreamcenter.org/dream-center/human-trafficking/