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03-20-2004, 03:04 AM
Smuggled South Koreans Turn to Sex Slavery
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Hundreds of South Korean women are working in the United States as sex slaves as payback to their human smugglers for sneaking them across the Canadian border into Washington state.
The women are forced to pay off their $15,000 smuggling (search) debt by working as prostitutes for organized crime rings in major American cities.
In December, Won Jung and Seoung Cho were busted after authorities said they escorted 10 undocumented women across the rugged northern border.
More than 100 women have been arrested coming into the United States the same way in the past year. But many more have been picked up in prostitution stings up and down the West Coast.
The Department of Homeland Security (search) has doubled the number of agents monitoring the Canadian-U.S. border (search). Canada, however, has devoted few new resources to the problem, and Korean nationals don’t need a visa to travel there.
Jung and Cho will likely be out of prison in a year and then deported, according to law enforcement officials. Meanwhile, federal authorities are searching everywhere from Los Angeles to South Korea in their hunt for ringleaders of the smuggled sex slaves trade.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Hundreds of South Korean women are working in the United States as sex slaves as payback to their human smugglers for sneaking them across the Canadian border into Washington state.
The women are forced to pay off their $15,000 smuggling (search) debt by working as prostitutes for organized crime rings in major American cities.
In December, Won Jung and Seoung Cho were busted after authorities said they escorted 10 undocumented women across the rugged northern border.
More than 100 women have been arrested coming into the United States the same way in the past year. But many more have been picked up in prostitution stings up and down the West Coast.
The Department of Homeland Security (search) has doubled the number of agents monitoring the Canadian-U.S. border (search). Canada, however, has devoted few new resources to the problem, and Korean nationals don’t need a visa to travel there.
Jung and Cho will likely be out of prison in a year and then deported, according to law enforcement officials. Meanwhile, federal authorities are searching everywhere from Los Angeles to South Korea in their hunt for ringleaders of the smuggled sex slaves trade.