Human Trafficking Victims: DHS Analysis

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DHS plays a major part in the protection of Human trafficking victims by allowing HSI to issue Continued Presence to trafficking victims. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) victims of human trafficking are offered relief under the T visas, and U visas. These three forms of relief give DHS the ability to offer protection to victims of human trafficking. Each of these relief are offered to victims provides protection either temporary or permanently. Under the blue campaign the CP gives temporary immigration relief to victims under HSI and the USCIS offers the same protection under T visa and U visa, if they help with the investigation or prosecution of human trafficking cases, either Federal, State, local, tribal, or territorial.

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