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"Basically, human trafficking is modern-day slavery," said Paul Piñon, the El Paso Human Trafficking Task Force coordinator."

Supported by modern-day liberals!

1 posted on 12/19/2005 10:16:21 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
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2 posted on 12/19/2005 10:20:06 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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They're just doing the jobs Americans won't.


3 posted on 12/19/2005 10:21:38 AM PST by PreviouslyA-Lurker (...where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18)
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"Supported by modern-day liberals!"

Slavery is bad. Human trafficking is bad. Illegal immigration is bad.

The opportunity for human trafficking described in this article is created by laws that limit immigration into the U.S. this causes some foolish people to turn to smugglers.

Since liberals generally do not support stronger border enforcement I don't see how you can blame this on liberals.

In fact I suggest avoiding politicisizing this issue since it is actually the anti-illegal alien laws and enforcement that create the opportunity for this trade... this will surely be turned against conservatives if we politicize it,.


4 posted on 12/19/2005 10:25:56 AM PST by gondramB (Rightful liberty is unobstructed action within limits of the equal rights of others.)
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human trafficking, men, women and children are held to work against their will. "Basically, human trafficking is modern-day slavery


----Doesn't FEMA have a new rule you have to look for work and show you are actively doing it before they help anymore? I can see Farrakhan and Jackson reading WAY to much into this one. j/k


5 posted on 12/19/2005 10:26:26 AM PST by WasDougsLamb (I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
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To: BigTex5; Ann de IL; Sterco; voiceinthewind; calrighty; tall_tex; Not a 60s Hippy; phatoldphart; ...

Slavers Ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.


9 posted on 12/19/2005 11:30:27 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (Liberals-beyond your expectations!)
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TESTIMONY OF ROSA, AGE 14
before U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee

When I was fourteen, a man came to my parents' house in Veracruz, Mexico and asked me if I was interested in making money in the United States. He said I could make many times as much money doing the same things that I was doing in Mexico. At the time, I was working in a hotel cleaning rooms and I also helped around my house by watching my brothers and sisters. He said I would be in good hands, and would meet many other Mexican girls who had taken advantage of this great opportunity. My parents didn't want me to go, but I persuaded them.

A week later, I was smuggled into the United States through Texas to Orlando, Florida. It was then the men told me that my employment would consist of having sex with men for money. I had never had sex before, and I had never imagined selling my body.

And so my nightmare began. Because I was a virgin, the men decided to initiate me by raping me again and again, to teach me how to have sex. Over the next three months, I was taken to a different trailer every 15 days. Every night I had to sleep in the same bed in which I had been forced to service customers all day.

I couldn't do anything to stop it. I wasn't allowed to go outside without a guard. Many of the bosses had guns. I was constantly afraid. One of the bosses carried me off to a hotel one night, where he raped me. I could do nothing to stop him.

Because I was so young, I was always in demand with the customers. It was awful. Although the men were supposed to wear condoms, some didn't, so eventually I became pregnant and was forced to have an abortion. They sent me back to the brothel almost immediately.

I cannot forget what has happened. I can't put it behind me. I find it nearly impossible to trust people. I still feel shame. I was a decent girl in Mexico. I used to go to church with my family. I only wish none of this had ever happened.

Whole thread is a bump list and a must review.

20 posted on 12/19/2005 2:53:11 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Supported by modern-day liberals!

Why are "liberals" taking all the blame? Have you forgotten about the "compassionate conservatives"? Or the "Chamber of Commerce/Rockefeller Republicans"? By failing to control our borders or enforce our laws in the interior they are all tacitly putting their seal of approval on slavery.

21 posted on 12/20/2005 8:14:38 AM PST by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
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