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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons


Modern slavery can’t be fought without strict immigration enforcement


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By CIS on July 31, 2023



WASHINGTON, D.C. — This weekend marked the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, which was established by the United Nations in 2013 to raise awareness of this widespread problem.

Conservative estimates suggest that human trafficking and modern slavery affect more than 27 million people worldwide, with cases reported in all 50 states in the U.S.

Trafficking is the exploitation or enslavement of someone by force, fraud, or coercion, for labor, domestic servitude, or commercial sex. Human trafficking is a lucrative industry and is on the rise in the United States.

Current immigration policies are responsible for the loss of control of the southern border and for lax oversight of guestworker programs, both of which are major contributors to the human trafficking industry in the United States.

Forced labor trafficking is the most common form of trafficking that has a direct nexus to the Southern border crisis.

The prospect of almost certain release after crossing the U.S. border illegally has enticed many thousands of migrants to sign up with traffickers, and many end up in debt bondage and exploitative labor situations that are difficult to escape.

Often, the victims are minors, who are handed over to smugglers by their parents, who may be told that their children will attend school in the United States. Instead, some of these children end up working in dangerous and abusive conditions, and the unwillingness of the Biden administration to enforce immigration laws in the interior makes these crimes less likely to be discovered.

Failure to enforce our immigration laws — both at the border and in the interior — has created ideal conditions for human trafficking to flourish and expand. Any efforts to address trafficking without also reversing current immigration policies are doomed to fail.


https://cis.org/Immigration-Studies/...icking-Persons

On World Trafficking Day, Remember That Slavery In Modern America Is An Immigrant Activity

James Fulford
07/31/2023
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It is World Day Against Trafficking In Persons, and ”trafficking” means slavery and involuntary servitude.

Mark Krikorian notes that you can’t stop this in the US without immigration enforcement:

The CIS.org press release says

Trafficking is the exploitation or enslavement of someone by force, fraud, or coercion, for labor, domestic servitude, or commercial sex. Human trafficking is a lucrative industry and is on the rise in the United States.

Current immigration policies are responsible for the loss of control of the southern border and for lax oversight of guestworker programs, both of which are major contributors to the human trafficking industry in the United States.

Forced labor trafficking is the most common form of trafficking that has a direct nexus to the Southern border crisis.

The prospect of almost certain release after crossing the U.S. border illegally has enticed many thousands of migrants to sign up with traffickers, and many end up in debt bondage and exploitative labor situations that are difficult to escape.

It’s true that there’s both farm labor slavery and sex slavery on the Southern Border, see

• A Reader Points Out The Modern Day Slave Trade Biden Is Allowing At The Mexican Border
• "Modern-Day Slavery" Scheme: Illegal Aliens Caught Trafficking Legal "Temporary Workers" To U.S. Farms

What’s even more horrifying, in a way, is the legal immigrants (Filipino, Indian, and African) who import slaves to act as domestic servants.

I wrote up many examples of this in 2017, in The Immigrants Who Bring Their Slaves To America, And The Press That Doesn’t Want You To Know.

It was inspired by a story in the Atlantic—the most read of 2017—https://twitter.com/hilmarschmundt/s...9401728?s=20by a Filipino-American whose family had had a Filipino slave live with them for 56 years:

It was written by a man named Alex Tizon, and he arranged to have it published only after his own death, because it’s disgraceful, but the point is that it’s a case of immigrants enslaving other immigrants because it’s part of their culture—as it very much isn’t in America.

And there are many such cases. When they’re discovered and reported in the press, the word "immigrant" will only be used in referring to the victim, of course.




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