Texas enacted a human trafficking law in 2003, and last year Perry signed a measure creating a statewide human trafficking task force attached to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. The law took effect in January.
Perry said his was making $500,000 in grants available to counties and cities to help victims of human trafficking. His office’s criminal justice division also will provide the attorney general with nearly $300,000 to expand the trafficking task force to aid in prosecution of cases.
Perry said human trafficking preys on the hopes and dreams of victims who were promised better lives for themselves and their families.
“Unfortunately, what awaits victims is a life of confinement, hard labor, prostitution, physical and mental abuse, and in far too many cases an early death,” he said. “Human trafficking is simply modern-day slave trade and its scope is very chilling.”
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