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News Articles Regarding the Maria Garcia Human Trafficking Case

  Gonzales says U.S. must also look to the North, by Gene Warner
Date Published: 11/15/2006While there's much focus on protecting the nation's southern border, U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales came to Buffalo on Tuesday to inspect the area's international bridges and put an exclamation point on previously announced plans to combat human trafficking
PDF File Link: Buffalo News

  Labor Camp Indictments Stem From Risky Escape, by Sandra Tan
Date Published: 6/21/2002It all started with an escape.
PDF File Link: Buffalo News

  Migrant-Camp Operators Face Forced Labor Charges, by Steven Greenhouse
Date Published: 6/21/2002Six people who run migrant labor camps east of Buffalo were indicted this week on the unusual federal charge of forced
PDF File Link: New York Times

  Task force hears suggestions for enforcing human trafficking law, by Kyle Miller
Date Published: 12/17/2007The New York State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking last week sought the
PDF File Link: Legislative Gazette

  Contractor Gets 46 Months In Prison for "Despicable' Abuse of Farm Labor, by Dan Herbeck
Date Published: 5/27/2005Maria Garcia recruited illegal aliens from Mexico, brought them to farms in Western New York
PDF File Link: Buffalo Evening News

  Reaping Profits From Farm Workers, by Dan Herbeck
Date Published: 12/3/2004She packed as many as 50 migrant farm workers into a one-family house, where they shared one
PDF File Link: Buffalo News

  Government to establish border task force in Western New York, by Associated Press
Date Published: 11/15/2006Citing a farm labor contractor who withheld wages from upstate workers and used threats to keep them in
PDF File Link: Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

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