On July 23-24, a large group of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers and officials, researchers, service providers, and representatives of foreign governments gathered in Houston for the third annual Conference to Combat Human Trafficking, which the Center for Immigration Studies co-sponsors with the Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute in Houston and the Harris County Department of Education.
Between the lenient new rules and existing concerns and problems in the T visa program, it is fair to ask whether the program is actually helping address the problem of human trafficking and aiding in the prosecution of severe forms of trafficking.
With funding from the Department of Justice, Smith and project director Beth Paramo-Wheaton have established a clearinghouse of data on human trafficking that is available to researchers, law enforcement agencies, and policy makers.
How Has AI Been Used to Fight Trafficking? Thao Ngoc Do, a doctoral candidate at the University of Bath in England presented the findings of her research on how artificial intelligence has been deployed to fight human trafficking.
Do found that in each year since 2010, an average of three new AI tools have been introduced that aimed to fight human trafficking, with the majority focused on sex trafficking and only 14 percent focused on labor trafficking.
Psychology researcher Rachel Dianiska, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, presented the results of her research on the most effective ways to identify and obtain evidence from suspected victims of human trafficking.
While none of these cases involved non-citizens, still the results challenge the notion that victim cooperation is the most important ingredient to prosecuting a human trafficking or adolescent sex abuse case, and that sanctuary policies supposedly adopted for the purpose of increasing immigrant trust of authorities may not be as relevant or helpful to solving and prosecuting crimes as claimed.
https://cis.org/Vaughan/Highlights-CISCoSponsored-Conference-Combat-Human-Trafficking
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