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The Dark Reality of Modern Slavery in America

The following are all true stories:

• Sacramento, California, 2018:
When two teenage girls, ages fifteen and seventeen, approached the American Airlines counter, ticket agent Denise Miracle knew something wasn't right. The girls were traveling unaccompanied with no ID on a first-class ticket to New York that had been purchased by a credit card in another name. She denied them boarding and called the Sheriff's Department Airport Bureau. Mean­while, the girls called "Drey," who had invited them to New York for a weekend to earn $2,000 modeling and appearing in a music video. They'd met him on Instagram, and each had told her parents that she would be staying at...