Hidden in Plain Sight: Domestic Worker Trafficking in the US




The Brian Lehrer Show show

Summary: <p>Alex Tizon's story in The Atlantic, "<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/" target="_blank">My Family's Slave</a>," is about Eudocia Tomas Pulido, a woman his family brought over from the Philippines to work in their house for 56 years without pay. <a class="guestlink" href="/people/linda-oalican/">Linda Oalican</a>, executive director of Damayan, migrant rights activist and former domestic worker, and <a class="guestlink" href="/people/sameera-hafiz/">Sameera Hafiz</a>, advocacy director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), discuss the story and the policies needed to end domestic worker trafficking.</p> <p>Labor trafficking can happen hidden in plain sight. If you suspect a case, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-373-7888.</p>