Serious gaps in anti-trafficking policy let crime happen in plain sight, and treating victims as criminals leaves them reluctant to come forward. The good news is that focused, achievable reform can improve the situation and is possible within existing legal frameworks.
Since 2016, refugees have been scapegoated and detained to suit the political platforms of certain lawmakers. Rhetoric with no basis in data translates into very real consequences for vulnerable migrants in our city, and it is refugees who pay the price.