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RELEVANT U.S. LAWS



Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/22/ch32.html

Immigration and Nationality Act
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/lpBin/lpext.dll/inserts/slb/slb-1/slb-21?f=templates&fn=document-frame.htm#slb-act

International Emergency Economic Powers Act - 50 U.S.C. 1701
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1701.html

Title 18 of the United States Code Chapter 77 sections:

1581(a) - Peonage; obstructing enforcement
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1581.html

1583 - Enticement into slavery
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1583.html

1584 - Sale into involuntary servitude
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1584.html

1589 - Forced labor
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1589.html

1590 - Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1590.html

1591 - Sex trafficking of children or by forced fraud or coercion
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1591.html

1592 - Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1592.html


1593 - Mandatory restitution
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1593.html


1594 - General provisions
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1594.html

Amendment to the sentencing guidelines
http://www.ussc.gov/2002guid/2002guid.pdf



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