Elizabeth Nolan Brown:
For the second time since September, The New York Times profiles one of the state’s specialized criminal courts created to handle prostitution cases, known as “human trafficking intervention courts”. This one, in Queens, sees largely Latin American and Asian defendants, including a large number of undocumented immigrants. Many turned to sex work with debt piling up and few other employment options.
This is, of course, precisely the cohort that gets white-savior boners popping. All those American-born sex workers on Twitter may insist they want rights not rescue, but surely these low-income, low-skill women are victims. Surely they’ll appreciate state power being used to help rend them from their wretched lives.
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You’ll notice it’s yet another court system that is not using our program. When we had Sex Workers Anonymous meetings within the court system, and the “safe houses” – our members as their “sponsors” were also “advocates”. If they were being abused – we would go to the press and help them file charges. If they were being railroaded by the court – we would find them private lawyers. What I’ve seen them do is to only allow these women access to programs that law enforcement has “control” over. We would not let law enforcement know where our members were… Read more »