[SkyPilot]

I absolutley believe all your claims and the stats you cite.

My suspicions remain that the NYT reporter cut corners on this story. If he did so, he took legitimate concern away from the victims of sexual exploitation in order to exaggerate the story in order to bring greater attention to his "journalism skills" rather than his subject.

[FITZ]

We've had some of these sex-slave rings discovered in the city I live near, not to the same degree because this is the border and the customers can easily cross the border and use the prostitutes there but you see very young girls selling themselves on the streets in Mexico, I'm sure many are inside the brothels.

But as far as the quotes --- for one they were subject to translation from Spanish to English --- I wouldn't bet they were necessarily exact translations. Some of these prostitutes may have been doing the same work in Mexico, were promised "better" jobs to come to the USA and find themselves in the same spot and are complaining.