What politicians don't say about how Medicaid helps human trafficking victims

What politicians don't say about how Medicaid helps human trafficking victims:

Case dropped: Texas woman charged with human trafficking was really a victim | AL.com

"It became very clear during the investigation of this case that Veronica Melvin was a sex trafficking victim of Jermaine Williams," Kistler stated in an email to AL.com on Thursday. "Our office, along with the law enforcement agencies who worked this case, agreed that justice required dropping her charges."

Case dropped: Texas woman charged with human trafficking was really a victim | AL.com:

Protect immigrant women from violence - CNN.com

  http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/opinion/anderson-hybels-vawa/index.html

  Source: CNN.com

By Leith Anderson and Lynne Hybels, Special to CNN

updated 8:08 AM EDT, Wed May 16, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Leith Anderson, Lynn Hybels: House mulling new version of Violence Against Women Act
• They say new version changes protections for immigrant women trafficked and abused
• Plan makes U visa, which protects women victims who come forward, temporary
• Writers: Abusers are empowered in new version of act; House should reject it

FOR FULL STORY, GO TO:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/opinion/anderson-hybels-vawa/index.html

Leith Anderson and Lynne Hybels say a new bill could undermine protections for immigrant victims
of sex trafficking