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Texas reports as many as 1,700 victims of human trafficking every year. Many victims of these heinous crimes are prosecuted for actions they were forced to take by their traffickers.

According to the U.S. State Department, between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year, with nearly one in five victims of human trafficking traveling through Texas.

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – On any given night in Dallas, 400 girls are trafficked on the streets according to New Friends New Life, a North Texas human trafficking advocacy group.

AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Attorney General Ken Paxton introduced a new comprehensive training video Thursday to educate and mobilize all Texans in the fight against human trafficking.

Robert Sanborn, President and CEO of Children at Risk, a Houston-based group that has extensively researched human trafficking, thinks Texas deserves the high grade given by Shared Hope.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a press conference about fighting human trafficking in Texas. The event took place Sept. 1, 2016, at the San Antonio Police Department Public Safety ...

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In 2020, a total of 987 human trafficking cases in Texas were reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, the second-most of any U.S. state after California.

The National Human Trafficking Hotline received 3,534 reports of human trafficking from Texas in 2021. Among those numbers, 661 were for sex trafficking and 131 for labor trafficking. Globally the ...