H.R. 5560 also makes transporting children in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of making child pornography a crime. This addition to the Federal law also protects our children. H.R. 5560 modernizes and expands another important Federal criminal law. The Mann Act. which was enacted in 1910. prohibits the transportation of women and the inducement of women to enter interstate or foreign commerce for immoral purposes. The Mann Act also prohibits the harboring of illegal alien women for immoral purposes. A 1978 amendment prohibited the transportation of minors in interstate or foreign commerce for certain sexual activity that is profit motivated. H.R. 5560 amends the Mann Act to modernize the language and to make its provisions gender neutral.
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