 The Tahirih Justice Center works within the legal confines established by Congress to ensure the safety of women and girls who are trafficked , defined as " the recruitment , harboring , transportation , provision , or obtaining of a person for labor or services , through the use of force , fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude , peonage , debt bondage , or slavery " to the U.S. The organization has pushed for legislation and regulations to protect and assist trafficking victims , such as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act ( <unk> ) and the Women Immigrants Safe Harbor Act ( <unk> ) . Partly through Tahirih 's efforts , in the 2005 fiscal year , the United States Department of Homeland Security issued 112 T @-@ visas to foreign survivors of human trafficking identified in the United States . 
