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the State Department to oversee international eorts. e Act criminalizes
procuring and subjecting another human being to peonage, slavery, invol-
untary servitude, or forced labor, and provides social services and legal ben-
ets to survivors of these crimes, including authorization to remain in the
country (Bales & Lize, 2005).
e State Department is not the only government agency involved in
antitracking eorts. Other organizations, including the Departments of
Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Labor, also
play key roles. For example, within ICE, the Oce of Investigations has an
entire division, the Smuggling/Tracking Branch, which disrupts and pros-
ecutes crim ...