On April 11, 2014, the Inter-American Commission on Human (IACHR) rights issued a press release stating that it is “deeply concerned about the discovery of 110 migrants in an irregular situation being held against their will in a small house in a Houston, Texas.” In the press release, the IACHR “urges the United States to maximize its efforts in the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of these crimes” and “to protect and provide assistance to migrant victims of crime, in cases such as the present, to ensure their physical, psychological, and social recovery.”