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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Acting Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli recently stated that “DHS will not tolerate forced labor of any kind in U.S. supply chains. We will continue to protect the American people and investigate credible allegations of forced labor, we will prevent goods made by forced labor from entering our country.”
Beginning Jan. 13, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will detain all tomato and cotton products from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). CBP identified the following forced labor indicators: debt bondage, restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, withholding of wages, and abusive living and working conditions. CBP has significantly increased enforcement of the import prohibition on goods made from forced labor, including issuing withhold release orders (WROs) on the importation of specific products. In 2020 CBP issued 13 WROs, which are promulgated when CBP has
Bella’s experience is not rare; it was part of an organized criminal enterprise that systematically trafficked children for forced labor, according to Hounakey, who is now an advocate for trafficking survivors. More than 20 children worked alongside her, forced to provide services, such as braiding, in a hair salon operated by her traffickers.
Hounakey’s story is emblematic of the global trafficking of child laborers between countries thousands of miles apart. Yet children are trafficked every day in their own countries as well.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Affairs (ILAB) works to put an end to these serious abuses around the world. We use a three-pronged approach, employing cutting-edge research and reporting, engagement with foreign governments and other stakeholders, and technical assistance projects.
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