Throughout the regions of Southeast Asia. as well as within a number of nations across the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. criminal organizations are capitalizing on poverty. rising unemployment. and the disintegration of social networks to exploit and abuse women and children. This legislation would create an Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking within the Office of Secretary of State. that would submit an annual report to Congress on: (1) The identification of states involved in trafficking. (2) the complicity of any governmental officials in those states. (3) the efforts those states are making to combat trafficking. (4) the provision of assistance to victims of trafficking. and (5) the level of international cooperation by such states in internal investigations of trafficking. It would also bar police assistance to governments that are involved in this practice. and would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow trafficking victims brought to the United States to remain here for three months so that they may put their lives back together and at the same time testify against their traffickers in both civil and criminal proceedings. Mr. Speaker.
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