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Human Traffickers Are Asking HHS for Immigrant Children
nationalreview.com ^ | July 12, 2014 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 07/15/2014 2:03:51 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

asking Health and Human Services officials to hand over the children who have immigrated to the United States during the recent border surge, according to a congressman who toured a facility where the children are being housed.

HHS is trying to release the children to sponsors in the United States, but those sponsors aren’t always parents. “There have been cases of people who have attempted to be sponsors actually being identified as associated with trafficking organizations,” Representative Jim Bridenstine (R., Okla) told National Review Online after visiting a housing facility at Fort Sill.

“And they kept saying ‘we’ll have to get more information on that because we don’t have the numbers,’” Bridenstine said during a Saturday afternoon phone interview. ”But, it has happened. Again, I’m talking to a lower-level individual at one facility in Oklahoma, so it’s hard for me to say definitively that this is a large-scale problem, but it was very clear that it has happened.”

Bridenstine said that the traffickers exploit the children they’re bringing into the country, especially if the parents who are supposed to pay for the trafficking fail to come up with the money.

“If you can’t pay your coyote or your criminal organization, they will force you into slave labor or they will force you into prostitution,” the congressman said. And of the children who did make it to American custody, “a significant percentage of the children in these facilities have been abused, in one way or another, coming to the United States,” according to Bridenstine.

Many others didn’t survive the trek. “There have been cases where the parents couldn’t pay, or somebody in the United States couldn’t pay, and large groups of these children have been, no kidding, massacred,” Bridenstine told NRO. ”And there are recent gravesites in Northern Mexico with a number of dead bodies.”

Bridenstine said that the children need to be sent back to their home countries so that parents in Central American stop sending their kids on such dangerous trips.

“We have a belief down in Central America that if you get here you can stay and that creates this demand to come north,” Bridenstine told NRO. ”I think we have to quell the demand signal from Central America that is causing these people to come into our country. I think what needs to happen is that the children need to be reunited with their families back in their home countries. That’s what needs to happen. It’s the only way we’re going to stop this massive inflow of unaccompanied alien children into our country.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: aliens; oklahoma
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To: Liz
Graying men posing as high school teens could also be sex traffickers --- lining up nubile kid for their johns..... and the young 'uns for pedophiles who pay big bucks to get ahold of the little darlings.

I think most of the Telenovelas portray this pretty accurately.

The graying guys flash cash to thug wanna be high school guys or to guys in a gang who then work identifying girls who are vulnerable. Sometimes the gangsta boys sweet talk the girls. or trick them into thinking they are interested in them in a romantic way.

Other times, they just catch them alone, and they are handed over to the Sex Traffickers. The "identifier/initial kidnapper" is making about 2,000 dollars for each "target" he hands over to the Trafficker.

The Trafficker then resells the Victim for up to $20,000 depending on the Victim's attributes. Unlike drugs, a human can be reused, thousands, and tens of thousands of times.

21 posted on 07/15/2014 4:28:11 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Cheeky, ain’t the rascals?!?


22 posted on 07/15/2014 5:14:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Really? The HHS want to show it is on the other side of the pimp fence... Democrats are the pimps since illegals cannot vote pro gun and against liberals.


23 posted on 07/15/2014 6:14:01 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Liz

A 10% tax on remittances sent to Latin America would go a long way to paying for this mess.


24 posted on 07/15/2014 8:59:26 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Liz

As far as I am concerned these people coming over are all Mexicans because they come from and are aided by Mexico.


25 posted on 07/15/2014 9:01:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Y’all need to remember that the age of consent in Mexico is 12. Lock up your daughters.


26 posted on 07/15/2014 9:09:15 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$, A$PCA, or PETA.)
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