Tampa Escorts: Officials fear Arizona law here
July 31, 2010Officials fear Arizona-type immigration law in Clearwater
In Print: Sunday, August 1, 2010
CLEARWATER — They brought the woman to Florida from Guatemala, promising her a housekeeping job. Instead, they turned her into a prostitute.
And, according to Clearwater police, members of the sex trafficking ring gave her a chilling warning: Don’t even think about going to police. Cops, they told her, will show you no mercy.
From incidents like this, Clearwater police Chief Tony Holloway learned a lesson about mixing immigration policy with local law enforcement. People like the young woman — undocumented but the victim of a human-trafficking operation — are “not going to report the crime. That’s how you breed these organized crimes.”
This helps explain why Holloway wants no part of an Arizona-style immigration law in Florida.
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