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ICE Targets Sex Workers in Mounting Raids

HeadlineJul 18, 2025

A Truthout investigation warns of intensifying police and ICE raids at massage parlors nationwide, targeting and disappearing hundreds of immigrant sex workers, including here in New York. Advocates have criticized the lack of resources supporting immigrant sex workers, who have long been vulnerable to harassment and arrest by federal immigration agents, often abandoned in detention to face deportation without legal help.

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