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[*] posted on 8-29-2003 at 12:07 AM
Immigrants used in Tijuana sex slave trade


From Sign on Sandiego:

Talk about darker side of border life was frank

By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

August 28, 2003

During a two-day conference in San Diego this week, health and social workers from Mexico and the United States talked frankly about one of the darker sides of border life: sexual exploitation.

Prostitution rings, they said, lure illegal immigrants to the United States with false promises of a better life.

Many of them, including children, come from Mexico's interior and Central America and become prostitutes in Tijuana. Some children end up as prostitutes in Balboa Park.

"Women, children and boys are being victimized by all of this," said Marisa Ugarte, executive director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, an alliance formed to combat slavery and human trafficking.

Coalition members come from more than 40 government and nongovernmental agencies on both sides of the border.

The conference ? "Parallel Worlds: Child Sexual Tourism and Other Forms of Trafficking" ? ended yesterday at Balboa Park. Ugarte said the goal was to draw attention to the plight of exploited people.

Rodger Lum, director of the county's Health and Human Services Agency, addressed the plight of child prostitutes in Balboa Park.

"We have been reaching out to these youth about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, and we are doing what we can to protect the health of these young prostitutes," he said.

"The question is, what we can do collectively regarding child sexual tourism and trafficking?"

About 50,000 men, women and children are brought into the United States illegally each year and forced into prostitution or pornography, the coalition says. Others toil in sweatshops.

These people are mostly hidden from view, the coalition says, and are afraid or unable to contact authorities.

Two cases of recent years provide examples of the problem:

A Mexican national who brought three women into San Diego County as prostitutes pled guilty this year to charges of immigrant smuggling.

Authorities believe he was part of a prostitution ring that kept women in rented apartments throughout the county.

The case came to the attention of authorities after two of the women died when their car overturned in a creek that had overflowed its banks.

In late 2001, 44 people believed involved in a prostitution ring were arrested. That ring was serving migrant farm workers in North County.

Many of the girls and young women had been promised work as maids and were smuggled into San Diego from Mexico and Central America.

However, authorities said that in a rush to rescue the minors involved, a strong case wasn't developed against the defendants and charges were dropped.


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[*] posted on 8-29-2003 at 08:44 AM


"A Mexican national who brought three women into San Diego County as prostitutes pled guilty this year to charges of immigrant smuggling." Illegal smuggling! If they were held against their will then it's slavery! And should have been prosicuted as such --20 to life NO less:mad:
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