result #114330 - THE US - MEXICO BORDER, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEX SLAVERY?

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THE US - MEXICO BORDER, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEX SLAVERY?

[+] serious ballot by xxxxxxxx
ACTIVE Apr 26,2007 - Wed Sep 30, 09

"By Eric Green
Washington File Staff Writer

About 17,000 people trafficked into United States from Mexico each year

Washington -- An official with the U.S. State Department has called on the United States and Mexico to work together to end the global problem of trafficking in persons, a crime against humanity that has been likened to "modern-day slavery."

Speaking October 4 in Tijuana, Mexico, John Miller, the State Department's director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, said the cooperation is needed because about 17,000 people are being "trafficked" from Mexico into the United States each year. That number includes migrant workers, and women and children brought into the United States for purposes of commercial and sexual exploitation...

Miller said that even though Mexico needs to do much more to combat trafficking in persons, it is also a U.S. national security problem because people are being trafficked and enslaved in the United States...

In Tijuana, Miller spoke at the inauguration of a State Department-funded center for at-risk children, designed to address every aspect of human trafficking and exploitation of people. The center aims to provide counseling and support to children taken from traffickers and is part of a joint U.S.-Mexico project, based in San Diego, California, called the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition to prevent and intervene in the commercial and sexual exploitation of women and children, while advocating for all exploited persons.

One of the main goals of the coalition is to renovate or construct shelters in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border to house and assist identified trafficking victims. Another component is to increase awareness of the trafficking problem in the border region through stepped-up publicity campaigns.

The coalition helped arrange a September 30-October 1 conference in San Diego called "Closing the Borders to Human Trafficking: Best Practices," in which the State Department's Miller gave opening remarks, and which included participants from other U.S. government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, as well as groups from other nations.

Human trafficking is often linked to organized crime and its profits help fuel other illegal activity, the State Department says, adding that human trafficking is among the world's fastest-growing criminal activities. Annually, at least 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked across borders worldwide, the State Department said.

President Bush announced in July that eight countries, including Mexico and Brazil, had been selected to receive a total of $50 million in U.S. aid to fight human trafficking, with Mexico slated to eventually receive about $8.2 million of that amount. The assistance funds would be used to support nongovernmental organizations and U.S. agencies working abroad that rescue women and children from bondage and give them shelter, medical treatment and rehabilitation.

The State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report for 2004 said the Mexican government does not "fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so." The report put Mexico on a "Tier II watch list" for failing to do more against the trafficking of humans by criminal elements.

The report said many cross-border trafficking victims are difficult to identify because their cases are "shrouded" in a "clandestine transnational movement."

(Source: US Department of State)

- So in reality there is a huge problem with illegal immigration to a significant extent involving organised crime and commerical and sexual exploitation. Do you think there should be more security at the US-Mexican border to combat such human trafficking and forced sex slavery of Mexican women and children?

Yes, the US should make the Mexican border much more secure, and check who it being let in	16
No, not at all	2

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Ballot choice should be

"Yes, the US should make the Mexican border much more secure, and check who iS being let in"

by xxxxxxxx on Thu Apr 26, 07 8:38am [+]

Voted : Yes, the US should make the Mexican border much more secure, and check who it being let in
Of course there should be much much much tighter border security along the US-Mexican border to combat such vile criminal activity.

Yet, many Americans I hear seem to argue as if there are little to no problems associated with illegal immigration and a minimally checked border.

by xxxxxxxx on Thu Apr 26, 07 8:40am [+]

Voted : Yes, the US should make the Mexican border much more secure, and check who it being let in
Yes, but our government makes them do their job with their arms tied behind their backs.

Lobbyists love cheap labor.

by _Beelzebubba on Thu Apr 26, 07 9:34am [+]

Voted : Yes, the US should make the Mexican border much more secure, and check who it being let in
"with Mexico slated to eventually receive about $8.2 million of that amount"

How about, instead of giving Mexico that money, we just build a wall along the U.S./Mexico border?

by RunsWithScissors on Thu Apr 26, 07 12:27pm [+]

Voted : Yes, the US should make the Mexican border much more secure, and check who it being let in
Of course. I hope that concern for the victims of crimes like this will take priority over anti-illegal sentiment.

by skylab on Thu Apr 26, 07 4:47pm [+]

skylab- Concern for the victims would have to result in concerns about illegal immigration.

by xxxxxxxx on Fri Apr 27, 07 12:03am [+]

The Globalists have always hated the idea of national independence, so a totally open border is what they want and since they own Congress, don't expect any change.

Hark-eye

by Guest User from [71.211.205.198] on Fri May 04, 07 8:54pm [+]

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