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This map shows where the world’s 30 million slaves live. There are 60,000 in the U.S.
Washington Post ^ | By Max Fisher October 17, 2013

Posted on 06/10/2020 7:37:25 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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the article is blocked for me (exceeded limit of free articles blah blah) but I’ll guess they’re talking human trafickking.

Every once in a while we hear about maids to rich multi-ethnic migrants who’ve have their passports taken away. Then there’s the illegals under threat to their family back home to pay their ‘transport cost’ to coyote cartels, thru forced labor in the sex trades or in jobs where few questions are asked, like agricultural workers or slaughterhouses.


41 posted on 06/10/2020 8:29:19 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Plus I want to yell ‘it’s not the 60’s anymore. It’s 2020 - get a hold of yourselves.


42 posted on 06/10/2020 8:30:07 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: SeekAndFind

Girls who can’t speak English and have no relatives in the US are Extremely vulnerable to those willing to beat, threaten and deceive them, while providing them with food, shelter and drugs. One of the reasons for the Southern Wall is to stop, or at least slow, the sex slave trade.

It’s an ugly world.


43 posted on 06/10/2020 8:30:27 PM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Politicians and BLM rioters care more about slavery that ended over 150 years ago.

Yeah - imagine some freshman tasked with doing a report on slavery, and he puts that WAPO map in there showing Africa as the biggest slave continent - he’s gonna fail for not being woke !”

44 posted on 06/10/2020 8:31:19 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: 11th_VA

Some pushers or pimps slip drugs into the drinks of young women to get them started and keep them high until hooked. Mexican ecstasy is now one common drug of choice for that. Some MDMA is pressed along with meth (for pill cohesion) into unmarked pills in local mills in the U.S. (ingredients from Mexico) and is also on the increase. Some drug dealers looking for young women are getting drugs from low rung Cartel members. Regardless of how they started using drugs, prostitutes addicted to drugs are slaves. It’s a very common practice.


45 posted on 06/10/2020 8:37:29 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: 11th_VA

In January, Trump signed an Executive Order targeting human trafficking and child exploitation.

The Left was not happy. They attacked him, for example, saying it would benefit him politically to rescue child sex slaves.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-summit-human-trafficking-20th-anniversary-trafficking-victims-protection-act-2000/


46 posted on 06/10/2020 8:41:53 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“How do they define slavery in the U.S.?”

H1B workers?


47 posted on 06/10/2020 8:43:47 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: 11th_VA
60,000 in the US today ????? Ooooookaaaay ....

I think they are referring to any person working in the sex trades. . . including those working there of their own choice.

48 posted on 06/10/2020 8:44:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot)
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To: ScottfromNJ

RE: H1B workers?

Nope, that’s redefining slavery. They’re free to leave the USA anytime they want ( and they’re being paid a fortune compared to where they came from ).


49 posted on 06/10/2020 8:45:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it wil)
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To: 11th_VA

China is 100%.

Try to leave with your assets and without approval.


50 posted on 06/10/2020 9:04:17 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) 2028!)
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To: 11th_VA

One continent is particularly dark.

Black Slavemasters Matter!


51 posted on 06/10/2020 9:05:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) 2028!)
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that went out in the 70s


52 posted on 06/10/2020 9:07:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Illegal immigrants working for pennies on the dollar and paying out to the “company store” is a modern interpretation of slavery.

Except, of course, they can always choose to get up and go back to their native lands at any time - an option that isn't offered to actual slaves.
53 posted on 06/10/2020 9:27:25 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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54 posted on 06/10/2020 10:04:15 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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Re: “Where in the US? Let’s be specific with such BS.”

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It’s not BS.

Proclamation on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2020

whitehouse.gov ^ | December 31, 2019 | DONALD J. TRUMP

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3804807/posts

Human trafficking erodes personal dignity and destroys the moral fabric of society. It is an affront to humanity that tragically reaches all parts of the world, including communities across our Nation. Each day, in cities, suburbs, rural areas, and tribal lands, people of every age, gender, race, religion, and nationality are devastated by this grave offense. During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we reaffirm our unwavering commitment to eradicate this horrific injustice.

Trafficking crimes are perpetrated by transnational criminal enterprises, gangs, and cruel individuals. Through force, fraud, coercion, and sexual exploitation of minors, traffickers rob countless individuals of their dignity and freedom, splinter families, and threaten the safety of our communities. In all its forms, human trafficking is an intolerable blight on any society dedicated to freedom, individual rights, and the rule of law.

Human trafficking is often a hidden crime that knows no boundaries. By some estimates, as many as 24.9 million people - adults and children — are trapped in a form of modern slavery around the world, including in the United States. Human traffickers exploit others through forced labor or commercial sex, and traffickers profit from their victims’ horrific suffering. The evil of human trafficking must be defeated. We remain relentless in our resolve to bring perpetrators to justice, to protect survivors and help them heal, and to prevent further victimization and destruction of innocent lives.


55 posted on 06/10/2020 10:33:53 PM PDT by deks
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To: 11th_VA

American blacks should be grateful their ancestors escaped slavery in Africa. Slavery is an evil institution, but in practical terms, slaves in the US colonies and the US republic had a far better life than their African counterparts. Their homes were as good as homes of many free whites. That had guaranteed work, food, medicine and housing. They were free from tribal warfare. Some lived very well and were treated like family.


56 posted on 06/11/2020 12:38:54 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

I think this site is referring to sex slaves mostly, women, boys and girls who been trafficked, although there are reports here and there of domestic servants who are never paid and held against their will, usually by muslims.


57 posted on 06/11/2020 1:47:42 AM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Husbands do not count as people. We are just something the women keep around to pay the bills etc.

That’s why girls want to get married so they can own their very own cash machine. I they leave the marriage they can take all the cash with them.


58 posted on 06/11/2020 4:46:16 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: 11th_VA

I’ve used this article as a counter. Slavery isn’t historical in this world.


59 posted on 06/11/2020 4:48:48 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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IMO, illegal immigration is a modern day form of slavery. Work for menial wages and get to choose where they live and what they eat.


60 posted on 06/11/2020 4:54:53 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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