Small Mexican town of Tenancingo is major source of sex trafficking pipeline to New York

NY Daily News ^ | 6/3/12 | Erica Pearson

[ruralvoter]

In this small Mexican town that sends sex slaves to New York, little boys dream of growing up to be pimps.

Gaudy gabled houses that rise above gated walls are proof of the profits to be made from funneling “delivery girls” to Roosevelt Ave. in Queens.

An annual parade of pimps in plumed hats — wielding whips to settle business beefs — is evidence that cash and fear has conquered shame here.

“Many kids aspire to be traffickers,” said Emilio Munoz Berruecos, who grew up in the next village and runs a local human rights center. “This is a phenomenon that goes back half a century.”

The town of 10,000, about 80 miles from Mexico City, is Mexico’s undisputed cradle of sex trafficking, one end of a pipeline that leads directly to our city’s streets. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s New York field office arrested 32 sex traffickers last year; 26 of them were from Tenancingo.

It’s a family business, and through the decades, the pimps have perfected methods to coerce women into sexual slavery using romance, lies and the threat of violence.

[RC one]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[C210N]

Since they still have to cross the border, they can get trained at the Hnahnu of the [Border-crossing theme] Parque Alberto.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

It would be so racist to try to stop this kind of thing, especially after the DOJ let them have all those cool guns and stuff. Only Republicans are so dumb they can’t see that.

[volunbeer]

The cartels and organized gangs are taking the sex trade over in Mexico. The pimps won’t defend their business with whips.

[Steely Tom]

...little boys dream of growing up to be pimps.

I grew up hoping to gaze upon the blue Earth from the windows of my laboratory.

But all cultures are the same.

[WesternPacific]

Multiculturalism at its worst. Coming to a neighborhood near you.

[Vide]

Beautifully put.

[mo]

Where’s Bloomie trying to shut THEM down?

[Norm Lenhart]

Typical...you wanted to look down on people from on high while the poor Mexican kid chose to embrace working with his fellow men/women.

/s

[myrabach]

He’s too busy making sure you don’t drink too much soda...

[Vaduz]

Using romance, lies and the threat of violence.
Sounds like our congress and senate.

[moonshinner_09]

When places like this are discovered, you never see any supporters out there protesting or undocumented and unafraid to speak up about the sex trade. What a deal aspire to be a pimp... NY will thrown the dream act giving would be pimps degrees in economics business & warn pimps of the dangers of soad pop..