By whom?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1530000/posts
Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1529927/posts
CIS - Canada: The Organized Crime Marketplace in Canada
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b59966032e3.htm
Sex-Slave Trade Is Thriving
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1678451/posts
Terrorism and Human Smuggling Rings in South and Central America
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1677479/posts
Prostitution ring run by illegals, for illegals Feds say brothels in Texas, Oklahoma ....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674672/posts
Pornography's link to rape
http://www.lifetimetv.com/movies/originals/humantrafficking.html
Human Trafficking
Duty Free?
No it didn't. I've been reading about this for a year. That nothing's been done about it makes me think it might be a hoax.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1790389,00.html
'Slave auctions' targeted in crackdown on airport crime
Jacqueline Maley
Monday June 5, 2006
The Guardian
Women are being sold off in "slave auctions" in the arrivals lounges of British airports, according to authorities desperate to crack down on the burgeoning trade in trafficking humans.
The Crown Prosecution Service said foreign women were being sold as sex workers as soon as they arrived, and police have been appealing to men who frequent brothels to contact them in confidence if they believe the prostitutes may be there against their will.
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A Home Office report released five years ago estimated the number of victims of human trafficking in the UK at 1,400. But the current figure could be double that, according to Gloucestershire chief constable Tim Brain, the head of Operation Pentameter, a multi-agency taskforce launched in February to combat trafficking. The CPS conference coincides with criticisms levelled at the government by children's charities, who believe its response to the trafficking of children is "completely inadequate".
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It takes place in the airport terminal. The slave auction site is right between the opium den and the pirate bar. Across from the Starbucks.
Are they Britons? I suspect not.
This is an issue like drugs: There are two potential solutions. One is to legalize and regulate the industry to take the profits away from the criminals. The other is to come down on the criminals like a ton of bricks.
Here on FR, for example, we would probably have people in either of the two camps. The really problem, however, is that the government does not take either approach. Instead, the government makes it illegal (allowing for the crime element) but then doesn't do all that much about it. It's the worst of both worlds, just like with drugs.
"The 11-strong unit...
Some unit.
If the authorities were serious about this pestilence, they would assign tenfold that number to combat the problem.
It must also be recognized that most of the pimps profiting from this racket are third-worlders from Africa, Caribbean and the Middle East.
Just who are the customers?
And how quick are these people to look down their noses at southern states in the US, tut-tutting that close to 150 years ago they had slaves?
Hey, Europe! We did something to eliminate slavery. How's about joining us?
This is pretty incredible.
I always get on the airport line behind the sweating 300 pound old man.
England needs another crusader for human rights like William Wilberforce to rise up and fight against human trafficking of any kind in the UK.
"Women are like elephants. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one" - W.C Fields
Make no mistake this is happening in this country as well .I have seen reports here of slave filled brothels being raided in Florida here on FR .