By Jessica R. Pliley
ISBN-10: 0674368118
ISBN-13: 9780674368118
America’s first anti–sex trafficking legislation, the 1910 Mann Act, made it unlawful to move girls over nation traces for prostitution “or the other immoral purpose.” It used to be intended to guard girls and women from being seduced or bought into sexual slavery. yet, as Jessica Pliley illustrates, its enforcement resulted extra frequently within the policing of women’s sexual habit, reflecting conservative attitudes towards women’s roles at domestic and their pursuits in public. via mentioning its mandate to halt illicit sexuality, the fledgling Bureau of research won access not just into brothels but in addition into deepest bedrooms and justified its personal expansion.
Policing Sexuality hyperlinks the campaign opposed to intercourse trafficking to the fast development of the Bureau from a number of dozen brokers on the time of the Mann Act right into a ambitious legislations enforcement association that cooperated with country and municipal experts around the kingdom. In pursuit of offenders, the Bureau usually intervened in family squabbles on behalf of guys rationale on tracking their better halves and daughters. operating prostitutes have been imprisoned at dramatically elevated charges, whereas their male consumers have been seldom prosecuted.
In upholding the Mann Act, the FBI bolstered sexually conservative perspectives of the chaste girl and the decent husband and father. It equipped its nationwide strength and status by means of increasing its criminal authority to police americans’ sexuality and via marginalizing the very ladies it was once charged to protect.
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Braun’s attacks on the institution of marriage and its place in immigration policy must be contextualized in his larger experience as an immigrant deeply devoted to his identity as an American citizen. Andrew Tedesco issued his own supplement to Braun’s report, in which he outlined a series of issues that he had noticed in the course of the investigation, most of which drew upon his experiences working as an immigrant inspector. He specifically emphasized that special boards of inquiry, the administrative apparatus that heard exclusion and deportation hearings, posed a particular problem in deporting immoral women.
Young Mexican girls came to Laredo to work as domestics, private concubines, and public prostitutes. Alerted to the white-slave dragnet as Stone conducted his investigation, the same system of procurers that brought Mexican sex workers to Laredo worked in reverse sending the women back to Mexico where they would be safe from deportation proceedings; one brothel that had had twenty-three Mexican girls working when he arrived in town, had only two remaining 44 POLICING SEXUALITY when he left. 39 Like Braun’s investigation, individual immigration agents encountered uncooperative and complicit police departments.
Alerted to the white-slave dragnet as Stone conducted his investigation, the same system of procurers that brought Mexican sex workers to Laredo worked in reverse sending the women back to Mexico where they would be safe from deportation proceedings; one brothel that had had twenty-three Mexican girls working when he arrived in town, had only two remaining 44 POLICING SEXUALITY when he left. 39 Like Braun’s investigation, individual immigration agents encountered uncooperative and complicit police departments.