FWIW, "knowing what you are getting into" or "personally finding it a better alternative" in no way changes the nature of the crime.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0787/Sections/0787.06.html
Based on my understanding, shared by LoweTek's relationships in the business, every single plank of the linked definition of "coercion" would fail to describe the present situation. Likewise, that the definition of "human trafficking" includes an explicit plank of "...for the purpose of exploitation of that person" is a big piece at issue, because if you're free to leave and have a number of plausible alternatives for gainful employment, and choose to stay because the money is good, it'd be real hard for me to see that there's any layman's-definition "Exploitation" happening.
I didn't mean they "know what they're getting into" in the sense of "sure I'll be enslaved for a few years but eventually they'll start paying me well". I meant that it's a normal international-labor-migration situation, no different than (say) software engineers coming here for better pay for X years, except that the work they're being employed for is at least partly
malum prohibitum.
And I'm posting about this because focus on the non-coercive, non-exploitative sides of the industry takes resources and attention away from the legitimately horrifying parts that
are coercive and exploitative (and
malum-in-se). My company, among various other activities relating to linking diverse datasets, helps with AML compliance for the financial industry, and the second most common crime category (after drugs) for Anti Money-Laundering is human trafficking. Cases
like this pop up in the data all the time, and deserve the full weight of the law, and there are always >10x as many happening as there are resources to pursue them. So seeing prurient finger-waggers spending time on this Orchids of Asia stuff, just because there's articles to be written and ads to be sold, kinda pisses me off, because their true concern is getting eyeballs rather than helping the women.
You know the whole bit from Terry Pratchett about "you know what sin is, don't you? Treating people as things. Lot of people will tell you it's more complicated than that, but it ain't"? That's my litmus test here. I don't think the women Kraft was seeking services from were being "treated as things", any more than run-of-the-mill massage therapists or chiropractors or anyone else who works with their hands on other people are.