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Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics (truthout.org)

submitted 1 year ago by LassCalibur@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense.

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[–] f1error 13 points 1 year ago

Yet one more reason to make sex work legitimate, and in some cases legal. Keeping sex work in the dark shadows only breeds an evil outcome.

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