Combating Human Trafficking: Awareness & Action

1. Human Trafficking What is it? Where is it happening? What can I do to stop it? Miguel C. Keberlein Gutiérrez | Executive Director Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services Phone: 312.986.4180 | keberleinm@metrofamily.org One North Dearborn, Suite 1000 | Chicago, IL 60602 https://www.metrofamily.org/legal-aid/ 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

2. Farmworker Rights 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

3. Farmworker Rights There is almost no food we eat in the United States that is not first touched by the hands of farmworkers. We are the most wealthy and best fed nation on earth. 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

4. Farmworker Rights Timeline of Historical Events Creating our Modern-day Agricultural System 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

5. Farmworker Rights 1860s – 1960s 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

6. Farmworker Rights 1960s - Today Coalition of Immokalee Workers: http://www.ciw-online.org/about/ Cesar Chavez: http://www.history.com/topics/cesar-chavez Harvest of Shame: http://www.npr.org/2014/05/31/317364146/in-confronting-poverty-harvest-of-shame-reaped-praise-and-criticism 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

7. Farmworker Rights 1960s - Today 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

8. Farmworker Rights • Traditional Migrant • Seasonal • H2A Guest Worker 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

9. Farmworker Rights Farmworkers in Illinois • 75,000 at peak time in July • Wide range of agricultural activities • Detasseling corn • Fruits and vegetables • Tobacco • Flowers • Meatpacking, canneries • Landscaping • Isolated, under the radar • Hispanic, monolingual • About ½ undocumented • Fewer legal rights • Very high incidents of injury • Growing number are guest workers – H2A • Children allowed to work • Poorly compensated, need SNAP 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

10. Farmworker Rights Legal Issues • Wage theft • Human trafficking (modern-day slavery) • Lack of quality housing • Exposure to highly dangerous pesticides • Very little quality oversight from govt. • Cycle of poverty • Lack of healthcare • Isolated • Under-educated – 6th grade average • Fewer worker protections • Workplace sexual violence • No access to daily resources • Horrendous workplace conditions 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

11. Farmworker Rights https://icert.doleta.gov/ 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

12. Human Trafficking 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

13. Human Trafficking Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

14. Human Trafficking 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

15. Human Trafficking • Who are the Victims? Who is at Risk? • Trafficking victims can be any age, race, gender, or nationality • Trafficking victims can be men or women, young or old, American or from abroad, with or without legal status • Traffickers prey on victims with little or no social safety net • They look for victims who are vulnerable because of their illegal immigration status, limited English proficiency, and those who may be in vulnerable situations due to economic hardship, political instability, natural disasters, or other causes 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

16. Human Trafficking • How do I Identify Human Trafficking? • Human trafficking is often “hidden in plain sight” • There are a number of red flags, or indicators, which can help alert you to human trafficking • Recognizing the signs is the first step in identifying victims 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

17. Human Trafficking • Behavior or Physical State: • Does the victim act fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive, tense, or nervous/paranoid? • Does the victim defer to another person to speak for him or her? • Does the victim show signs of physical and/or sexual abuse, physical restraint, confinement, or torture? • Has the victim been harmed or deprived of food, water, sleep, medical care, or other life necessities? • Does the victim have few or no personal possessions? 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

18. Human Trafficking • Social Behavior • Can the victim freely contact friends or family? • Is the victim allowed to socialize or attend religious services? • Does the victim have freedom of movement? • Has the victim or family been threatened with harm if the victim attempts to escape? 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

19. Human Trafficking • Cases in the Midwest • H2A Visa holder recruited from Mexico, threatened when he complained about work conditions. Not given water on hot day and dies in the fields. Authorities told he ran off the job. Body recovered 50 days later. • 17-year-old female from upper middle class family begins modeling career; Manager begins forcing her into selling sex on different shoots and threatens to do harm to her younger siblings and expose her to her school and family friends if she complains. 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

20. Human Trafficking • Cases in the Midwest • 4 men recruited at homeless shelter to work construction. Forced to live in a shipping container and severely beaten if they try to escape. Worked 14-16 hour days and paid less than $4 per day. • High school basketball player from Senegal recruited to come live with a family, go to school, and play basketball. Forced to sleep on concrete floor of garage and given very little food or water. Family in Senegal threatened if player doesn’t sign with certain school and agency. 2018 Joint CIG Dissemination Event

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22. https://www.facebook.com/MetroFamChicago https://twitter.com/metrofamchicago/ https://www.instagram.com/metrofamchicago/ Miguel C. Keberlein Gutiérrez | Executive Director Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services Phone: 312.986.4180 | keberleinm@metrofamily.org One North Dearborn, Suite 1000 | Chicago, IL 60602 https://www.metrofamily.org/legal-aid/