Gavin Newsom makes California the human-trafficking capital of America: The California governor put his signature on statehouse bill S.B. 357 in 2022, effectively legalizing human trafficking
|
| |
American Thinker ^
| 02/23/2022 | Monica Showalter
California's governor, Gavin Newsom, likes to hold out his state as a model for the nation, in a move to ramp up his presidential ambitions.Never mind that 500,000 people have fled the state. He
calls California the nation's true "free" state and says he plans to make all of America into one big California.Well, he's got this sort of thing going on, and it's directly tied to his governorship.According to Fox5 San Diego:SAN DIEGO — Law enforcement in San Diego launched a major human trafficking operation that resulted in the successful rescue of eight children and arrest of 48 individuals,...
|
|
|
Proclamation on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2021
|
| |
Whitehouse.gov ^
| 12/31/2020 | President Donald J Trump
Human trafficking is a horrific assault on human dignity that affects people in the United States and around the world. It
tears apart communities, fuels criminal activity, and threatens the national security of the United States. During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we reaffirm our commitment to eradicate this abhorrent evil, to support victims and survivors, and to hold traffickers accountable for their heinous crimes. Tragically, through force, fraud, and coercion, human traffickers deprive millions of victims of their unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Often referred to as “modern slavery,” this intolerable blight...
|
|
|
Proclamation on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2020
|
| |
whitehouse.gov ^
| December 31, 2019 | DONALD J. TRUMP
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...
|
|
|
(Old Story from CNN) - Human trafficking in Mexico targets women and children
|
| |
CNN ^
| January 13, 2010 | Staff Writer
Even before her 18th birthday, Maria had already been enslaved by a gang of human traffickers and held in captivity for four months in her homeland of Mexico. While a prisoner, Maria witnessed a sickening trade in human life and recalls how young girls were drugged, forced into prostitution and then murdered.
What makes Maria's story so special is that she was one of the lucky ones who were able to escape.
|
|
|
GOP candidate blames human trafficking on sexual liberation, saying it leads to ‘slavery’ of women
|
| |
Washington Post ^
| 1/31/18 | Eli Rosenberg
A leading candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri recently blamed the problem of human trafficking on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s during remarks he gave at a religious conference.Josh Hawley, the state’s attorney general and the Trump-endorsed candidate as the party tries to unseat Democratic
Sen. Claire McCaskill, made the remarks in December at the event “Rediscovering God in America,” hosted by a Christian political group, the Missouri Renewal Project.“We’re living now with the terrible aftereffects of this so-called revolution,” said Hawley, according to audio of the event. “We have a human-trafficking crisis in...
|
|
|
More reports of ISIS human-organ trafficking: Grisly trade possibly tied to sex slavery
|
| |
WND ^
| August 18, 2015 | Bob Unruh
The Muslim jihadists running ISIS already have been documented shooting, drowning, burning, crucifying, beheading, raping and blowing up victims. And
they’ve been suspected of trafficking in human organs in the past. Now, a new report cites social media conversations that appear to tie sex slavery to organ trafficking. The Middle East Media Research Institute cited social media reports in which “ISIS fighters and supporters openly discuss” not only sex slaves and “the going prices for them” but also “other issues relating to them – such as possible trafficking in human organs.’ The report explains: “On Sept. 3, 2014, prior...
|
|
|
Bay Area liquor store owners lose license after accusations of slavery, human trafficking
|
| |
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| March 6, 2021 | Joshua Bote
Months after a Bay Area couple was charged with enslaving an immigrant and forcing him to work at their liquor store for more than a year, their liquor licenses have been revoked. Amarjit
and Balwinder Mann, the owners and proprietors of a Gilroy liquor store, were charged in November for human trafficking, wage theft and witness intimidation after an investigation found that the two were allegedly keeping a man in a room behind the liquor store.
|
|
|
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Pre(trnc)
|
| |
The White House ^
| Dec. 29, 2017 | President Donald J. Trump
During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we recommit ourselves to eradicating the evil of enslavement. Human
trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation. It has no place in our world. This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality. We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.
|
|
|
Ohio human trafficking sting nabs 10 men, including teacher, illegal immigrant
|
| |
Fox ^
| 5/13/23 | Julio Musto
drug bust video Authorities in Ohio have arrested 10 men in a human trafficking sting. The
men, who range in age from 30 to 55, were arrested Thursday on sex charges in North Olmsted by the members of the Northeast Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force. On the same day, a Lorain County man who was previously convicted of 31 human trafficking offenses was sentenced to life in prison.
|
|
|
Google vs Anti Human Trafficking Bill
|
| |
Fox News ^
| September 18, 2017 | Tucker Carlson
This topic was part of Tucker Carlson's show last night. a discussion with Mary Mazzio on how Google is funding the organizations that are fighting attempts to ban human trafficking sites. One
thing she said set off my BS alarm, though. She said that if you put buy a child for sex into Google search within seconds you will have an offer to deliver a child to your door. So I entered exactly what she said into Google and all it comes with are articles on people being arrested for attempting or succeeding in having sex with children. Perhaps she...
|
|
|
Human trafficking bill hits abortion snag
|
| |
Politico ^
| 03/10/2015 | Burgess Everett
Senators this week were expected to advance a cause that should have bipartisan support — ending human slavery — but abortion politics are threatening to get in the way. An
anti-human trafficking bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in late February without opposition, but Senate Democrats are balking over language in it that would prohibit money in a restitution fund from being spent on abortions. Aides said Democrats shepherded the bill through committee and to the floor, unaware that abortion language was in the bill written by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas). “He slipped the language in the bill...
|
|
|
Democrats Torpedo Human Trafficking Bill [semi-satire]
|
| |
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^
| 21 March 2015 | John Semmens
Legislation aimed at deterring human trafficking (kidnapping people and selling them into slavery—especially as prostitutes) was stifled by a Democratic filibuster in the US Senate this week. The
offending clause in the bill, as Democrats see it, is language that would bar federal funds being used to fund abortions. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) explained that “inasmuch as unwanted pregnancy is an even worse fate than being sold as a sex slave we cannot abide placing any limits on a woman’s right to an abortion. A sex slave merely has to endure occasional interludes of undesired intercourse. A woman denied an...
|
|
|
Mitch McConnell: No Loretta Lynch confirmation until human-trafficking bill passes
|
| |
Hotair ^
| 03/16/2015 | Ed Morrissey
After two months in the majority, has Mitch McConnell finally hit a red line with Harry Reid? The confirmation of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General has stalled for the last few weeks, and McConnell threatened to stall it indefinitely after Democrats blocked a human-trafficking bill. The
Senate Majority Leader wants an end to Democratic obstructionism:CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, authored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), has been stalled after Democrats accused Republicans of sneaking anti-abortion language into the bill. McConnell noted that Democrats on the Judiciary Committee...
|
|
|
Senate Breaks Gridlock, Passes Human Trafficking Bill (Abortion Battle)
|
| |
The Aquilla Report ^
| Thursday, May 14, 2015 | J.C. Derrick |
(WNS)–The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan human trafficking bill on April 22, scoring a significant victory for Republicans who fought to ensure taxpayer funding wouldn’t go to pay for abortions. “Help
is finally on the way for the thousands of enslaved victims who suffer unspeakable abuse in the shadows,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act boosts law enforcement’s ability to pursue perpetrators, strengthens penalties, and establishes a domestic fund to help trafficking victims. The legislation was widely popular, but it only passed after an unexpected month-long stalemate between Republicans and Democrats....
|
|
|
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month (1/11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day)
|
| |
My Twin Tiers ^
| 1/10/23 | David Sorensen
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month and the local Safe Harbour Programs are asking for your help recognizing human trafficking in our local community. Human
trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of someone for the purposes of compelled labor or a commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Human trafficking affects individuals across the world, including here in the United States, and is commonly regarded as one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time. Human trafficking affects every community in the United States across age, gender, ethnicity,...
|
|
|
Monica Petersen testimony to the Colorado Senate Committee on Human Trafficking and a Proposed Bill
|
| |
Legislature State of Colorado ^
| 1/28/15
|
|
|
New York Lawmakers OK Bill to Consider Reparations for Slavery: "Historic"
|
| |
CBS News ^
| JUNE 9, 2023
New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday. "We want to make sure we are looking at slavery and its legacies," said state Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages before the floor debate. "This
is about beginning the process of healing our communities. There still is generational trauma that people are experiencing. This is just one step forward." The state Assembly passed the bill about three hours after spirited debate on Thursday. The state Senate passed the measure hours later, and the bill will...
|
|
|
Breaking: Deal on stalled Senate human-trafficking bill clears way for Loretta Lynch vote
|
| |
Hotair ^
| 04/21/2015 | Ed Morrissey
Surprised? Don’t be, as the confirmation vote for Loretta Lynch was never going to be stalled forever. Under
pressure themselves, Democrats finally cut a deal on the human-trafficking bill to get the Lynch nomination completed: “I’m glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action on this legislation so we can provide help to the victims who desperately need it,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced on the Senate floor.“As soon as we finish the trafficking bill, as I’ve indicated for some time now, we’ll move to the president’s nominee for...
|
|
|
Slavery Reparations Bill Passed by New York State Lawmakers
|
| |
Breitbart ^
| 06/09/2023 | Simon Kent
A commission to consider reparations to address the effects of slavery will proceed in New York under a bill passed Thursday by the state Legislature. “We want to make sure we are looking at slavery and its legacies,” said state Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages before the floor debate, AP reports. “This
is about beginning the process of healing our communities. There still is generational trauma that people are experiencing. This is just one step forward.”
|
|
|
Genocide, slavery and immigration: No New York Times, Slavery Did Not Make America Rich
|
| |
Washington Times ^
| 01/02/2019 | Richard Rahn
My New Year’s wish for the coming year is for more of my fellow Americans and others to learn some basic history and try to get a grip on reality. Someone
who writes for The New York Times under the name of Michelle Alexander wrote a column published last week, “Who Deserves Citizenship?” One of her choice sentences: “But for slavery, genocide, and colonization, we would not be the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world — in fact, our nation would not even exist.” Hmm. Both North and South America were colonized by European countries that practiced slavery, and...
|
|