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Hundreds of thousands of migrants without legal standing are smuggled across the U.S. border each year, yet the State Department says only 18,000 of them are victims of human trafficking, even though they often follow the same routes of entry. What's the difference?

Not all persons trafficked in the United States are coming in from distant points in Asia, Europe, or Central America. Some U.S.