Many non-status people already have lots of challenges working with law enforcement, but for sex workers, because of the sex worker law, there are more and more opportunities to have unwanted contact with law enforcement. For example, often the undocumented sex worker is arrested because there is lots of training about identifying trafficking victims, so their neighbours will call CBSA or the police to say there is an Asian next door. Then when the police come and check their ID, they are arrested. Of course, they have also been asked if someone has taken their money, if someone has answered their phone. Sometimes sex workers will work together, so some people may help one person answer the phone, then the other may help other people transfer money to the bank, so all of this increases the issue of vulnerability.
In Hamilton, for example, we see that CBSA, the City of Toronto and bylaw officers often have joint enforcement, with no trafficking being identified but the sex worker being arrested and deported. This has also happened in other cities. We also see how racial profiling plays out in this process, and many law enforcement members keep saying they assume Asian workers are vulnerable, so they target and identify Asian sex workers' advertisements and go there. The impacts are on not only the undocumented but also those who are documented.