Trafficking victims are those who are being transported for purposes of abuse, usually sexual.
Wiki: “Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others...” They are slaves or kidnapping victims, not immigrants.
They are not volunteers, by definition. This law, at least in its original intent, does not apply to the vast majority of those presently coming into the country. If you hire a coyote to sneak you across the border, you are not a trafficking victim, though some have found out the hard way you can become one unexpectedly, especially cute young girls.
This law does not apply, it’s just being dishonestly used to justify lack of action to stop the influx.
“This law does not apply, “
I agree.
“it’s just being dishonestly used to justify lack of action to stop the influx.”
I think I know what you mean, but I’m not sure I follow.
Do you mean that the reason they are not deporting them is because they are dishonestly acting as if the law does apply to them, so therefore they cannot be immediately returned, and further must be given counsel of some sort?
That makes sense.
That I wouldn't know, as I don't know all of them personally - perhaps you do.
Secondly, once they are here, again what do we do if before a judge they say that they have been sexually abused, either by captors who used them as mules, or by people from where they fled from (parents, relatives, local authorities) - mostly from regions where thugs are trafficking drugs.
Call them liars? Send them back to where they were, so that they can be abused again?
I personally don't have all of the answers, while some here seem to think they do. I would love to see their pearly white throne on high.