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Salvador or mexico. >> on each of the main streets of houston, the cantina business starts booming around 10:00 p.m. >> let me go to here. >> and can sometimes stretch until dawn. >> see this one right here? they open until 5:00 in the morning. they have rooms here in back. look at this. >> along one of these strips jose brings us to what seems like an abandoned building. >> see that in front? >> there are no signs indicating a business, no music, and it is completely dark. >> you see how many cars? you don't see no lights, right? >> jose warns us to be discreet with our filming. >> it's very ...

Far they will go to guard their captives, which turn thousands of dollars each night. cantina security serves a dual purpose. it keeps unwanted parties out and the girls inside. >> jose says he's frustrated that cantinas in houston continue to exploit women and girls every day. >> you say, how can the people have six months to do sex, every single day, 24 hours a day, and police they don't know. i don't know! i know, many people know. >> on our second pass of the unlit cantina on little york, we're surprised to find the dirt lot filled with cars. >> now you see how many car really. look.

Ana. this is ana's father. >> translator: she left on the 14 of january. to this day, i remember it was a saturday at 3:00. she left and never came back. >> for ana's father, it's been six long years of heartbreak. his headstrong 14-year-old daughter with big dreams has never been seen or heard from since that fateful day. >> translator: she told us, papa, mama, i'm leaving. i want to go. just give me your blessing rather than trying to stop me. if i make it, i'll help you. have faith. >> federal prosecutor ed gallagher says a single woman can bring in thousands of dollars per night for the ca...

Just see what happens if you try to leave, he said. i'll go after your family. >> we actually found evidence that they had intelligence files on these girls where they had their mother and father's address and pictures of them. >> after studying the various criminal empires that run cantinas, barnett believes that the threat made by traffickers are far from empty. >> what would you do if they told you they're going to go kill your mother and father and sister if you spoke to the police? >> escaping from a cantina is simply not an option. these pictures show exactly how cantina owners control t...

In 2003, wendy left her home in honduras with dreams of a job in the u.s., but instead she found herself under the control of a brutal pimp who forced her to sell sex in one of houston's notorious cantinas. >> translator: he said, do you know what happens here? no, i told him. well, you're about to find out. >> it's inhumane. it's slavery, what we call modern-day slavery. >> according to government statistics, next to drugs, the buying and selling of humans has become the second largest criminal industry in the world. >> they often promise them legitimate jobs, either cleaning jobs or simply b...