Immigration 20 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Immigrant victims and suspects, and how immigration status affects who comes forward.
- Season 6 · Episode 2
Debt
Two small children left alone in a Chinatown apartment lead the squad to a mother who owed smugglers for her daughter’s passage, and to the gang that collects such debts.
- Season 8 · Episode 13
Loophole
Photos of a boy sent anonymously to SVU lead Benson to a building where a chemical company has been testing a pesticide on poor tenants.
- Season 9 · Episode 10
Snitch
The murder of a 15-year-old Nigerian bride seems to be a drug dealer’s warning to a witness, until the investigation turns to her husband’s other wives.
- Season 9 · Episode 19
Cold
In the season finale, Lake’s fatal shootout with a fellow officer exposes a decade-old rape and murder by police, and the case costs Novak and Lake dearly.
- Season 11 · Episode 10
Anchor
Fin tracks a man strangling the American-born children of undocumented immigrants, and a crusading lawyer puts an anti-immigrant TV host on trial in all but name.
- Season 11 · Episode 16
Witness
A rape case hinges on a neighbor who stopped the attack, a Congolese survivor of wartime sexual violence who fears that testifying will get her deported.
- Season 13 · Episode 1
Scorched Earth
A hotel maid accuses a powerful Italian politician of sexual assault, and the case turns on her credibility as Rollins arrives and Stabler leaves the force.
- Season 14 · Episode 4
Acceptable Loss
A car crash reveals a ring of trafficked girls branded with bar codes, but a federal terrorism investigation orders SVU to leave the traffickers alone.
- Season 18 · Episode 20
American Dream
SVU hunts the masked men who raped two Muslim sisters and killed one of them and their father, but the only eyewitness is deported before he can testify.
- Season 18 · Episode 21
Sanctuary
With their key witness deported, SVU pressures a suspect’s undocumented wife to break his alibi, and Benson must decide whether to back a grieving mother’s changed account at trial.
- Season 19 · Episode 23
Remember Me
A nanny holds a man she says trafficked and raped her at gunpoint in a Central Park West penthouse while a hidden camera streams the ordeal, and Benson becomes her hostage.
- Season 19 · Episode 24
Remember Me Too
Charged after the hostage standoff, Lourdes Vega goes on trial while Benson tries to prove Miguel Lopez trafficked her, and his associates go after Stone’s sister.
- Season 20 · Episode 3
Zero Tolerance
A nine-year-old Guatemalan girl separated from her mother by border agents turns up in a New York sex trafficker’s apartment, and Benson goes after the federal officer who separated them.
- Season 21 · Episode 7
Counselor, It's Chinatown
A raid on a Chinatown massage parlor uncovers trafficked women working off smuggling debts, and the squad follows the money from the parlor’s manager to its powerful owners.
- Season 21 · Episode 14
I Deserve Some Loving Too
A subway groper gives up his boss at the immigration service, who demands sex from women seeking green cards, and Rollins goes undercover as a bride to catch him.
- Season 23 · Episode 17
Once Upon a Time in El Barrio
When three girls from Velasco’s old parish in Juárez disappear in New York, SVU tracks a trafficking ring protected by a police captain.
- Season 24 · Episode 11
Soldier Up
Benson and a Gang Unit captain discover that BX9 uses rape to force boys into the gang, and race to tie the gang’s leader to the attack on her.
- Season 25 · Episode 8
Third Man Syndrome
Three young men from New Jersey beat a Colombian visitor they take for gay, and the only person who saw them clearly has not left her apartment in years.
- Season 26 · Episode 19
Play with Fire Part 2
In the second half of a crossover with Law & Order, Benson comes to suspect that the decorated lieutenant who supervised a murdered undercover officer raped and killed her and two women from the shelter where she worked.
- Season 27 · Episode 1
In the Wind
After Donald Cragen’s memorial, Benson tries to keep the only eyewitness in a rape case out of ICE custody, while Fin hides the theft of his gun and a new chief of detectives takes an interest in the squad.