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Publication Date: February 2008
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Brian W. Walsh; Andrew M. Grossman
Research Area: Human rights
Keywords: Legal issues; federalism; human trafficking; democracy
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The current version of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act would undermine accountability by inviting officials at all levels of government to "pass the buck" on enforcement issues, distract and divert federal law enforcement from actual human trafficking and other responsibilities that are inherently federal in nature, and detract from states' ability to function as "laboratories of democracy."