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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a June 16 report on human trafficking said the crime “thrives in the shadows, and it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else, but that isn’t the case. We’ve been reminded of this in recent weeks where authorities uncovered a scheme to enslave foreign workers as laborers for hotels and construction sites in 14 mid-western states.”
“Around the world, millions of people are living in bondage,” she said. “They labor in fields and factories under brutal employers who threaten them with violence if they try to escape.”
The United States funds 140 anti-trafficking programs in 70 countries as well as 42 domestic task forces.
Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of Persons said nine years ago the annual trafficking report started at a modest summary of 82 countries. It has grown to 175 countries.
Countries with worst rankings currently include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Laos, South Korea and Uzbekistan.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says the East Asia/Pacific region is the largest source of people trafficked into the U.S. each year, most for prostitution.

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Tucson city prosecutor Laura Brynwood said she informed three prosecutors, along with the office’s only investigator and a law clerk, Wednesday that their jobs will be eliminated at the end of February. Two vacant clerical positions were also eliminated.
The layoffs are the result of the Tucson City Council’s decision Tuesday to cut about $25 million in services, lowering the city’s deficit to about $4.6 million for the fiscal year that ends on June 30.
The loss of three out of 38 of city prosecutors will force the elimination of the Mental Health Court, a highly touted program devoted to keeping mentally ill people out of jail and in touch with their service providers, Brynwood said.
It will also mean the elimination of the neighborhood prosecution team, which handles prostitution, graffiti and other neighborhood nuisance issues, Brynwood said.

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Tucson Region
Law and Order: Manager is shot at Miracle Mile club
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.07.2010
A manager at a north-side strip club was shot in the ankle Wednesday night, police said.
The shooting was reported just before 10 p.m. at TD’s Show Club West, 749 W. Miracle Mile, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Police were still looking for the shooter late Wednesday, Pacheco said.
Investigators also were trying to determine the cause of the shooting, he said.
Mexico identifies man slain by border agent
The illegal immigrant shot to death by a U.S. Border Patrol agent Monday was identified by the Mexican government as Jorge Alfredo Solís Palma.
The Mexican Consulate in Douglas was working to locate his family in Mexico and send his body back home, a news release said.

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Tucson Region
Law and Order: Manager is shot at Miracle Mile club
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.07.2010
A manager at a north-side strip club was shot in the ankle Wednesday night, police said.
The shooting was reported just before 10 p.m. at TD’s Show Club West, 749 W. Miracle Mile, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Police were still looking for the shooter late Wednesday, Pacheco said.
Investigators also were trying to determine the cause of the shooting, he said.
Mexico identifies man slain by border agent
The illegal immigrant shot to death by a U.S. Border Patrol agent Monday was identified by the Mexican government as Jorge Alfredo Solís Palma.
The Mexican Consulate in Douglas was working to locate his family in Mexico and send his body back home, a news release said.

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Tucson Police investigate strip club shooting
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TUCSON (KOLD) – At least one person was shot Wednesday night outside the TD’s West strip club on Miracle Mile.  We’re told one man was hit in the ankle.
Reports indicate numerous shots were fired before the suspects fled.
This is the third major shooting outside a local strip club in the last six months.  The Candy Store strip club at 22nd and Craycroft was the scene of two deadly shootings, one in July and another in October.
TD’s West was the scene of another shooting in January 2008, when police say an unruly patron shot a bouncer in the stomach after he was escorted out of the club. 
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Credit was frequently given. “Some never paid,” says Taylor, who was once reimbursed with several volumes of Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
Night calls came in on a regular basis. “We had a telephone operator there until midnight. She took the calls coming in and distributed them,” says Taylor.
Destinations were often new, and sometimes remote. “Most of the places I went I had never been there before,” he says.
Fees were $7 for a house call, says Taylor, who took with him the proverbial black bag stuffed with everything from a stethoscope to blood-pressure equipment to antibiotics delivered via injection.
With 24-hour pharmacies still a rarity, shots were common, rather than prescriptions that needed to be filled immediately.
During the late 1950s, Taylor made several house calls to a brothel on the city’s south side. Its madam had called him, concerned about one of her “girls.”

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Credit was frequently given. “Some never paid,” says Taylor, who was once reimbursed with several volumes of Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
Night calls came in on a regular basis. “We had a telephone operator there until midnight. She took the calls coming in and distributed them,” says Taylor.
Destinations were often new, and sometimes remote. “Most of the places I went I had never been there before,” he says.
Fees were $7 for a house call, says Taylor, who took with him the proverbial black bag stuffed with everything from a stethoscope to blood-pressure equipment to antibiotics delivered via injection.
With 24-hour pharmacies still a rarity, shots were common, rather than prescriptions that needed to be filled immediately.
During the late 1950s, Taylor made several house calls to a brothel on the city’s south side. Its madam had called him, concerned about one of her “girls.”

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In February, he rented a four-bedroom house and started fixing it up. It’s a two-year lease with an option to buy. In April, he hopes to turn it into a home for women who are transitioning from prison back into the community.
There’s still a lot of work to do, but Rice is encouraged by some recent successes. A local appliance store donated a cooking range, he said, and another local business donated carpets for the bedrooms.
Rice said he needs to get heating and cooling installed next. He’s been working a lot on the grounds, and he envisions a “serenity island” garden for the front yard that will include a waterfall and fish pond.
“There have also been some donations of labor, but with the economy, it’s been pretty depressed,” he said.
More than 10 years ago, Rice managed a notorious motel along Miracle Mile. The motel, now closed, attracted mostly drug addicts and prostitutes.

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