Governor Urges Support For Human Trafficking Victims

[Commander Bunny]

Originally Posted by Kathy63

What's human trafficking?

When people are kidnapped off streets and out of their homes and schools to be sold into slavery, THAT is unlawful human trafficking.

When someone chooses to pay someone to smuggle them into the country and they find that they have paid someone instead to sell them into slavery they have merely made a bad bargain based on their own unlawful behavior.

Yup.

Then there's the "victim' Who infact is actually paying-back the Smuggler/Coyote for Their entrance into this country....and You better believe They'll claim to be "Slaves', or whatever sounds apropriate to the media, when caught.
CB.

[Twoller]

Originally Posted by Commander Bunny

Yup.

Then there's the "victim' Who infact is actually paying-back the Smuggler/Coyote for Their entrance into this country....and You better believe They'll claim to be "Slaves', or whatever sounds apropriate to the media, when caught.
CB.

You hear people talking about all the money illegals (and legals) send back to their "families" in their country of origin. I suspect it more likely goes into the pockets of the gangsters who got them here. And yeah, criminal organizations can get people into the country legally too. Probably just costs a little more.

[ilbegone]

It's unlawful human trafficking whether or not the transportee is duped, assaulted, forced into any sort of slavery, or has a successful venture.

The Korean, Chinese, Mexican or any other women in those massage parlors Are sex slaves.

In the 70's, I considered going to Saudi Arabia to make a bundle of money in the construction going on at that time. A couple of relatives who had already spent considerable time in the Arab oil producing nations, including Saudi Arabia, warned me to not take my blue eyed, blond haired then wife, because she would disappear either into some sheik's personal collection of foreign women or a whorehouse selling sex to wealthy Arabs. And I would never see her again.

Their words they used to describe the situation was "white slavery".

Does it make it any more right, regardless of their personal crime of entering our nation without benefit of permission, to approve of women being likewise exploited in our nation? What does it make us to gloat, saying they deserved everything they get?

The glee over their misfortune is akin to the glee by some over rape trees. Rape is a act of domination and humiliation. Is that something we should wish on others?

They don't send money home to their families, as they might have done if they had actually gotten that cush job they were promised as bait. To the contrary, if the woman runs away, harm comes to their family back home. There is no money sent home: it funds criminal empires.

If our government would enforce our immigration laws, including the provisions concerning employers, these things would be much less commonplace.

Those women need to be sent home to their families, and their exploiters brought to severe justice.


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[ilbegone]

Survivor's tale of sexual captivity grips crowd

January 11, 2010

By PAUL LAROCCO
The Press-Enterprise

Maria Suarez has replayed her story over and over again to others.

About being enslaved to a witch doctor nearly 50 years older, and repeatedly raped inside his Azusa home from 1976 to 1981. About the day she learned a neighbor had clubbed her captor to death with a table leg.

But many gathered Monday to hear her speak on National Day of Human Trafficking hadn't heard Suarez's full ordeal -- and audibly gasped when she mentioned that she spent 22 years in prison for hiding the murder weapon.

"I have not wasted a minute of my life," the now-49-year-old Suarez told more than 100 attendees inside San Bernardino's Inland Regional Training Center, referring to the time since her 2004 release. "I don't think anything can stop me."

Suarez was the keynote speaker at an event organized by San Bernardino County's Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation. Since forming last March, the unit has sought to shift the view of child prostitutes from criminals to victims.

"This is truly a non-traditional role for prosecutors," said Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Bell, whose department leads the coalition. "Our focus is on prevention and education, as well as suppression."

The problem of children, primarily runaways, being forced into providing sex for sale is heightened in San Bernardino County's west end of Ontario and Montclair, where juvenile prostitution arrests have increased more than five-fold over the last 11 years.

Prosecutors have joined with local police departments, probation officers, public defenders and social service providers to brainstorm ways top provide more options for young victims and push for stronger punishments for pimps.

District Attorney Mike Ramos said he'd like to one day see a safe house specifically for minors forced into the sex trade.

"It's us that need to be there," Ramos said. "So they can fall into our arms and not the arms of a pimp."

Suarez, who lives in Rialto, provided an emotionally charged example of how vulnerable people are targeted.

Not two weeks after Suarez and her family legally settled in the Los Angeles County community of Sierra Madre from Mexico, she was offered a job she believed to be cleaning and answering phones. It turned out she was sold for $200 to a 62-year-old man who practiced witchcraft.

A day into her captivity, she was stripped naked and made to beg for her clothes before being knocked out and raped. It began five years of abuse, she told the audience.

"Where could I go or what could I do?" Suarez recounted, noting the man's threats to kill her family. "Nothing."

In 1981, a neighbor killed the man, and because Suarez admitted to cleaning and hiding the table leg used, she was sentenced to 25 years to life. She was ultimately paroled in 2003, but spent another year in custody fighting deportation.