Can client prosecute for human trafficking under federal law

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Assignment: Legal Research and Writing

Instructions: You are limited to no more than 5 pages of text, Times Roman 12 point, 1-inch margins on all sides, 1.5 spacing. List the sources you use to document your responses on a separate page as "endnotes" not footnotes. Cite the sources in the body of the paper. Use the Uniform Citation Manual (Blue Book format) to document the memo you submit.

Recently, you completed the state bar exam to become licensed as a lawyer in Texas. While awaiting the results on your bar exam a lawyer at the law firm where you clerk has three clients that were arrested for assisting undocumented people (illegal aliens) to enter the United States, crossing the Texas border. The facts are:

Federal officials investigated and indicted Juan, Roger, and David (three Mexican citizens) for human trafficking. The suspects provide safe passage for illegal/undocumented aliens' travel from Central American to the Mexico/Texas border, luring aliens who unknowingly will work on farms picking fruit and performing other agricultural labor for marginal wages. Once the suspects have transported these workers about 3 miles from the border they no longer assist those wanting to cross into Texas. The suspects never cross into the United States, have no connections to the United States, have never travelled to the United States, nor have visas to travel to the United States. But federal prosecutors in Houston, Texas have asserted jurisdiction to prosecute these suspects.

You are asked to provide a legal analysis for the following issues:

1. Does the term "human trafficking" based on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act TVPA) apply to our fact pattern? (Hint: you may want to review the original TVPA statute of 2000 for the definition).

2. Can the prosecutors establish based on the actions of the suspects "subject matter" jurisdiction? (You may want to read or consult sources (cases, ALR, etc.) regarding the definition of subject matter jurisdiction.)

3. Can the prosecutors establish based on the actions of the suspects "personal" jurisdiction (cases, ALR, etc.)? (You may want to read or consult sources regarding the definition of personal jurisdiction.)

4. Can the clients be prosecuted for human trafficking under federal law?

The following sources should be sufficient to research your project and cite as authority for your assignment/memo:

Statute:

Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, Division A of Pub. L. No. 106-386, 114 Stat. 464 (2000), reauthorized by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-193, 117 Stat. 2875, reauthorized by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-164, 119 Stat. 3558 (2006), the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-457, 122 Stat. 5054, and in Title XII of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, Pub. L. No. 113-4, 127 Stat. 54 (2013); See also 22 U.S.C. §§ 7101-7112 (codifying most of the human trafficking laws in the United States).

Cases:

United States v. Lawrence, 727 F.3d 386, 396 (5th Cir. 2013).

United States v. Pizzarusso, 388 F.2d 8, 10 (2d Cir. 1968).

United States v. Layton, 855 F.2d 1388, 1395-397 (9th Cir. 1988).

United States v. Ayesh, 762 F.Supp.2d 832, 838-41 (E.D.Va. 2011).

United States v. Aguilar, 756 F.2d 1418, 1425 (9th Cir. 1985).

United States v. Villanueva, 408 F.3d 193, 197 (5th Cir. 2005).

United States v. Delgado-Garcia, 374 F.3d 1337, 1347 (D.C. Cir. 2004).

United States v. Angulo-Hernández, 565 F.3d 2, 10-11(1st Cir. 2009).

United States v. Perez Oviedo, 281 F.3d 400, 403 (3d Cir. 2002).

United States v. Klimavicius-Viloria, 144 F.3d 1249, 1257 (9th Cir. 1998).

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