Mass immigration — much of it illegal — has created a shadow economy. Sometimes it emerges from the shadows into broad daylight:

An illegal alien from Honduras was caught on video carrying away a screaming woman whom police later identified as a sex trafficking victim.

The woman who was later identified as a 44-year-old immigrant from China told police that she had been brought willingly from New York to Houston before someone took her passport and she was held against her will. She said she had been promised a job in the massage industry with better pay.

“Massage” should probably be taken in the Al Gore sense of the word.

When she tried to escape, a man identified as 22-year-old Jose Armando Carcamo-Perdomo dragged her back, prosecutors said.

No doubt Señor Carcamo-Perdomo was just trying to feed his family.

“She tried to leave, but this defendant carried her back inside the residence without her consent,” a Harris County judge said. “He tied her up and then sexually assaulted her.”

Maybe that was on the job training. Police found her in a closet with her hands bound.

[Carcamo-Perdomo] has been arrested for kidnapping and was identified by ICE as a Honduran national who had illegally entered into the U.S. in 2020.

Investigators believe he may be a small part of a much larger human trafficking operation.

At least human trafficking is more difficult now — until Democrats regain power and open the border again.