ABSTRACT

This chapter examines stories of people who were trafficked from Mexico to the United States primarily for commercial sex. The stories detailing experiences of trafficking were collected from affidavits written to support T non-immigrant status visa (T visa) applications and supplemented by interviews with six of the affi-ants. T visas were created via the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) for people who have been trafficked according to U.S. law (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2010).