[Travis McGee]

This ongoing horror show could not exist without the "open borders" our elites seem to love so much. The entire sex slave traffic relies on easy access back and forth across the border.

[GeronL]

I thought the NY Times was in favor of free movements of people across the border and alternative lifestyle choices.

[Libertina]

See? The "undocumented" are all good people who come over the border to work hard.../s

The perpetrators of this slaverey shouldn't be imprisoned, they should be shot.

[Kay Soze]

Sad Sad article. Poor girls get duped by these scumbags.

"Every day, flights from Paris, London and Amsterdam arrive at Mexico City's international airport carrying groups of these girls, sometimes as many as seven at a time..."

Thats just how easy it is to get across our border too.

Until we secure our borders we cannot dream of succesfully fighting the war on terror, or drugs,or automatic weapons in the hands of gang bangers, or sexual slavery.

No one can land a military in the US but you could dribble them in through the desert.

Crossing the arid desert is something middle eastern arabs have done all their lives.

[Nachum]

There was a horrible book I read once about child sex slavery and government mind control. It was graphic to the extreme. It seemed like it was all made up. After reading this though, it seems very possible. Can't remember the title now, something witht he word "trance" in it.

After reading it, I was very paranoid about my children's safety.

[squarebarb]

And we have all these wonderful social welfare agencies in every city, every county, every state, a triple layer of them, and somehow they can't find these girls and boys and help them.

After you shoot the customers, think about the social workers.

[NYCVirago]

There's been some questions about the accuracy of this article. Check out this link for more details. http://slate.msn.com/id/2094646/fr/nyt/

[SkyPilot]

Were not parts of this story recently debunked? I heard the NYT reporter who wrote this was accused of manufacturing quotes and parts of this story--a la the ficticious Washington Post story in the 1980's about a 9 year old drug pusher.

I don't doubt the horrors of the sex trade--and the hell its victims endure. If I am wrong about the accustation against the NYT--please correct me.

[squarebarb]

Okay, Slate and the blogperson made some good points. First of all, it is a titillating and pururient article all the way through. Secondly, the bit about a guy reading the Bible before and after having sex with a young girl also reads too typical of all-religious-people-are-hypocrites stereotype; professing Christians are always sex-hungry hypocrites.

[PRND21]

The NYTimes link didn't work but google gave the same article here...

The Christian Slave Trade

[spodefly]

" ... they told me the Mexican border was like a freeway ... "

Unfettered borders and open access to US markets, the "Hollywood" perception of America as a lure, rampant corruption of officials, and thugs in every country willing to take advantage of it, including here as customers of these girls.

Kinda make that Simcox story about seeing armed mexican troops on the border seem overblown and unbelievable, huh?

[freebilly]

Pretty horrific. West Front Street was a rough area when I worked there 25 years ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same....

[Cacique]

A little bit of the seedy side of life that exists in our own neighborhoods, even mine.

[Pro-Bush]

Bump!

[Jeff Gordon]

The New York Times, Jason Blair, Peter Landesman....

I would believe the Enquirer before I believed any of the BS in The Time.

[MarkL]

One thing that it clearly illustrates is the level of government corruption, primarily in Mexico, but in other countries as well.

Something that I've thought for some time is that we need to realize just how important it is to have people in government who are not corrupt. Since we give these people the ability to decide and do things that can have major impact over our property, freedom, and lives, they must never be corrupt. This article shows what happens when that corruption takes control.

That's why I've long believed that corruption in government, including voter fraud, should be a capital crime, punnishable by death.

Mark

[vikingchick]

''But their idea of prostitution is 'Pretty Woman,' which is one of the most popular films in Ukraine and Russia. They're thinking, This may not be so bad.''

Julia Roberts, Richard Gere...your legacy lives on.

[Lazamataz]

On the other hand, I *want* to be a sex slave, but I can't find the right chick.

[Lazamataz]

Used, day and night, to satisfy the depraved sexual urges of a young, pretty woman.

(back of hand to forehead) O! the inhumanity of it all!

[r9etb]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Cyber Crimes Center in Fairfax, Va., are finding that when it comes to sex, what was once considered abnormal is now the norm. They are tracking a clear spike in the demand for harder-core pornography on the Internet. ''We've become desensitized by the soft stuff; now we need a harder and harder hit,'' says I.C.E. Special Agent Perry Woo.

This rings true. But, of course, we all know that pornography is completely without impact. Just good, not-so-clean fun....