human trafficking report
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Homeland Security recently arrested a Vietnamese couple and charged them with offenses related to human trafficking in the territory, a case reminiscent of the Daewoosa Samoa garment factory case, which began in the late 1990s in American Samoa.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If you felt like the territory’s roads are always crowded with vehicles — both commercial and private motor vehicles — data from the 2020 Statistical Yearbook for American Samoa, recently released by the Commerce Department’s Statistics and Analysis Division, confirm you...
Washington, D.C. — “Trafficking in person occurs in the U.S. insular areas, including American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI),” according to the US State Department’s 2019 Trafficking In Person (TIP) Report...