The first thing, obviously, would be to repeal immigration provisions that cause migrant sex workers, regardless of their type of work, to be deported. That's the very first and immediate thing that can be done. The other thing is really more than changing trafficking laws. It's removing sex work laws that are almost word for word the same laws that already position all sex work as de facto trafficking. That's what we need first, so we can have an intelligent conversation about trafficking.
The other thing is to stop trying to pass all of these new bills that try to make it so that you don't need a victim. The victim can be screaming in court, and there are cases like this that you can go read. You can read decisions on trafficking cases where the victim is crying and screaming in court, “I'm not trafficked. Leave me alone. I don't want to be here”, yet she's still forced to testify for days and days in very traumatic conditions. We need to give up this idea that we're so traumatized we need to be forced to be identified as victims. That's really the first step. Once we have a coherent definition of sex work as work, then I think the concept of trafficking becomes much more evident.
Finally, we need to stop giving a different standard to sex workers. Most workers work because we live under capitalism and you need to make money to pay your bills. No one is going into fast food restaurants asking employees if they really feel empowered, if it's a choice, if they're forced to go to work today. We assume that people have to work. We even have unemployment that says you have to take any decent work that you can find with no questions asked. We need to have the same standard for sex workers. We're not trafficked just because we hate our job. We can hate our job and still decide to go do it, because that's how we pay our bills, and there's a lot more nuance to that. Bringing it to the same rational conversation as other forms of work is really where solutions start to emerge and where a conversation on trafficking....
A final little point is that human trafficking is not the same thing as sex trafficking. Human trafficking is this concept of selling humans. Sex trafficking is selling sex, just like drug trafficking is selling drugs and gun trafficking is selling guns. Conflating those two terms and mixing them is one of the ways by which people conflate sex work and trafficking and create other language that is new and very concerning.