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How enforcement of immigration laws could be making human trafficking tougher to detect
NYATN‘s Avaloy Lanning, senior director of Safe Horizon’s Anti-Trafficking Program, and Ivy Suriyopas, director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Anti-Trafficking Initiative, were in The U.S. News and World Report‘s “Modern Slavery Emerging from the Shadows,” by Kira Zalan. It addresses how enforcement of immigration laws could be making human trafficking tougher to detect.
Says Lanning: “The trafficker uses [work-related visas] against [workers], [saying], if you run then you’re going to be illegal, then immigration is going to pick you up, arrest you and deport you.”
Says Suriyopas: “”Immigrant victims are not going to come forward if they fear that the NYPD or the LAPD are not going to come help them but might label them a criminal first and ask questions later.”
NYATN member Juhu Thukral discusses inclusive comprehensive immigration reform
Juhu Thukral on We Act Radio
NYATN member Juhu Thukral discusses comprehensive immigration reform with We Act Radio‘s segment on “How to Make Immigration Reform Work for Everyone.”
NYATN contributed to The Opportunity Agenda’s new report on “Immigration and Gender: An Analysis of Public Opinion and Media Coverage”
NYATN contributed to The Opportunity Agenda’s new report on “Immigration and Gender: An Analysis of Public Opinion and Media Coverage” and will present this research and recommendations in a webinar/telebriefing on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Speakers include NYATN member Sienna Baskin, co-director of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center.
- The full report: “Immigration and Gender: An Analysis of Public Opinion and Media Coverage“
- Download the Executive Summary.
- The Opportunity Agenda’s press release
- For more information
Sienna Baskin in the News
“Trafficked Women’s Second Chance,” By Hugh Ryan, The Daily Beast, 10.14.11
“’There was no way to go back and erase a criminal conviction in New York,’ says Sienna Baskin, co-director of the organization that helped Maria, the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center. SWP is a legal advocacy organization that helps sex workers of all kinds, from trafficked individuals to those who freely engage in commercial sex. In 2007, SWP helped create the New York Anti-Trafficking law, which made human trafficking a statewide offense.”
NYATN’s First Freedom Week 2011 Panel a Success
Immigration Law and Human Trafficking
AALDEF's Ivy Suriyopas, Klasko Rulon's Suzanne Seltzer, facilitator Christine DiDomenico, Sanctuary for Families' Lori Cohen, and Sex Workers Project's Sienna Baskin
Tuesday, October 11
Vanderbilt Hall
Freedom Week Immigration Panel Flier
Human trafficking isn’t the same as illegal smuggling. This event was hosted by the NYU Law School’s Anti-Trafficking Advocacy Coalition. Along with the fundamental differences between these two crimes, experts in immigration will explained how traffickers get around the laws we have, and what we can do about it. Speakers included: Lori Cohen, senior staff attorney at Sanctuary for Families; Ivy Suriyopas, staff attorney at Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Suzanne Seltzer, partner at Klasko, Rulon, Stack & Seltzer; Sienna Baskin, co-director of Sex Workers Project at Urban Justice Center.
Human Trafficking CLE includes NYATN Steering Committee Member Suzanne Tomatore as Speaker
A Call to Action: The Crisis of Human Trafficking
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Please arrive by 12:15 pm to be seated for lunch before the presentation begins
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
MetLife Building
200 Park Avenue, 15th Floor
New York City
This CLE program is in conjunction with the launch of a new initiative to provide free legal services to victims of human trafficking. The speakers will present a compelling overview of the issue, including a discussion of pro bono opportunities.
Speakers:
Anne Milgram, Former Attorney General of New Jersey and currently with the NYU School of Law Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
Dorchen Leidholdt, Sanctuary for Families
Suzanne Tomatore, New York City Bar Association’s City Bar Justice Center
Bill Silverman, Litigation Shareholder and Head of Pro Bono at Greenberg Traurig’s New York Office
U Visa Manual
The NYATN is proud to announce its release of its “Immigration Relief for Crime Victims: The U Visa Manual” in time for Women’s History Month. Please visit here for additional NYATN resources and publications.
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