                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                     CHAPTER 77--PEONAGE AND SLAVERY
 
Sec. 1592. Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in 
        furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary 
        servitude, or forced labor
        
    (a) Whoever knowingly destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates, or 
possesses any actual or purported passport or other immigration 
document, or any other actual or purported government identification 
document, of another person--
        (1) in the course of a violation of section 1581, 1583, 1584, 
    1589, 1590, 1591, or 1594(a);
        (2) with intent to violate section 1581, 1583, 1584, 1589, 1590, 
    or 1591; or
        (3) to prevent or restrict or to attempt to prevent or restrict, 
    without lawful authority, the person's liberty to move or travel, in 
    order to maintain the labor or services of that person, when the 
    person is or has been a victim of a severe form of trafficking in 
    persons, as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims 
    Protection Act of 2000,

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, 
or both.
    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to the conduct of a person who is 
or has been a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons, as 
defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000, if that conduct is caused by, or incident to, that trafficking.

(Added Pub. L. 106-386, div. A, Sec. 112(a)(2), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 
1488.)

                       References in Text

    Section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, 
referred to in subsecs. (a)(3) and (b), is classified to section 7102 of 
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
