The People Smuggling Industry
Jun 22, 2018 00:27:16 #
The People Smuggling Industry
From a friend who is well versed in such matters.
It is quite apparent that the national press in America is no longer concerned with finding the t***h about important matters. Ideology and the crass pursuit of profits have pretty much destroyed honest journalism in this country.
A vivid example is the chaos surrounding the southern border. Millions of foreign born people have illegally crossed from Mexico and congress still cannot come up with policies that might stem that tide. The t***h about what is happening down there is horrifying but largely unreported.
Smuggling human beings into the USA is now an enormous criminal enterprise that operates openly in Central America and Mexico. The process begins with the “vaquetones,” usually young men who scour poor neighborhoods for desperate people who want to live in America. The vaquetones (t***slation: the brazen) direct the migrants to the actual smugglers called coyotes, a term invented in the 19th century to describe Mexicans who provided laborers to the Southwestern United States.
The modern coyotes, often associated with the Mexican drug gangs, are ultra-violent and in charge of setting the fees the migrants must pay. Prices vary wildly and are negotiable but two thousand dollars a head is common. The coyotes arrange t***sportation to the border and lodge the migrants in cheap hotels before the crossings. The longer the trip, the higher the fee. Coyotes also dispense advice like “if you bring a child, the gringos are more likely to let you stay if you get caught.”
Mexican officials are bribed along the way as the migrant pipelines are well known to authorities. Coyotes are often brutal to the defenseless migrants, especially the women. Mexican police generally don’t care, so anything goes.
Once at the U.S. border, the “cuidanderos” (caretakers) enter the picture, guiding migrants across and bringing them to safe houses, where they stay just a few hours before going on their way. That is if they aren’t dead. Last year the International group “Migration” reported 412 migrant deaths but, of course, the number was much higher. Thousands of trekkers simply disappear.
The humane policy would be to crush the people-smuggling industry by making it extremely difficult to illegally cross the border. A well designed wall would go a long way in accomplishing that and so would mandatory e-verify for American employers with criminal penalties for those who refuse to comply.
The Democratic Party strongly opposes the wall and criminal penalties for violating i*********n l*w even in cases of violent criminal aliens. Kate’s Law, which would mandate federal prison time for criminals who defy deportation, was k**led by democrats under President Obama.
The press will never report the incredible violence and corruption surrounding the people smuggling cartels. For the far left, open borders should be the policy and anyone who opposes that is a bigot. The media is sympathetic to that point-of-view.
If Americans actually knew how awful the border situation really is, perhaps congress would move to protect we the people as well as the poor migrants themselves.
But the folks don’t know. Because the press will not tell them.
From a friend who is well versed in such matters.
It is quite apparent that the national press in America is no longer concerned with finding the t***h about important matters. Ideology and the crass pursuit of profits have pretty much destroyed honest journalism in this country.
A vivid example is the chaos surrounding the southern border. Millions of foreign born people have illegally crossed from Mexico and congress still cannot come up with policies that might stem that tide. The t***h about what is happening down there is horrifying but largely unreported.
Smuggling human beings into the USA is now an enormous criminal enterprise that operates openly in Central America and Mexico. The process begins with the “vaquetones,” usually young men who scour poor neighborhoods for desperate people who want to live in America. The vaquetones (t***slation: the brazen) direct the migrants to the actual smugglers called coyotes, a term invented in the 19th century to describe Mexicans who provided laborers to the Southwestern United States.
The modern coyotes, often associated with the Mexican drug gangs, are ultra-violent and in charge of setting the fees the migrants must pay. Prices vary wildly and are negotiable but two thousand dollars a head is common. The coyotes arrange t***sportation to the border and lodge the migrants in cheap hotels before the crossings. The longer the trip, the higher the fee. Coyotes also dispense advice like “if you bring a child, the gringos are more likely to let you stay if you get caught.”
Mexican officials are bribed along the way as the migrant pipelines are well known to authorities. Coyotes are often brutal to the defenseless migrants, especially the women. Mexican police generally don’t care, so anything goes.
Once at the U.S. border, the “cuidanderos” (caretakers) enter the picture, guiding migrants across and bringing them to safe houses, where they stay just a few hours before going on their way. That is if they aren’t dead. Last year the International group “Migration” reported 412 migrant deaths but, of course, the number was much higher. Thousands of trekkers simply disappear.
The humane policy would be to crush the people-smuggling industry by making it extremely difficult to illegally cross the border. A well designed wall would go a long way in accomplishing that and so would mandatory e-verify for American employers with criminal penalties for those who refuse to comply.
The Democratic Party strongly opposes the wall and criminal penalties for violating i*********n l*w even in cases of violent criminal aliens. Kate’s Law, which would mandate federal prison time for criminals who defy deportation, was k**led by democrats under President Obama.
The press will never report the incredible violence and corruption surrounding the people smuggling cartels. For the far left, open borders should be the policy and anyone who opposes that is a bigot. The media is sympathetic to that point-of-view.
If Americans actually knew how awful the border situation really is, perhaps congress would move to protect we the people as well as the poor migrants themselves.
But the folks don’t know. Because the press will not tell them.
Jun 22, 2018 01:52:48 #
Ark of Hope for Children has compiled the following U.S. and international statistics on human trafficking, child trafficking and sex trafficking.thumb Prostituted sm These trafficking stats were sought so we could research the needs of rescued child trafficking victims. These became our keys towards our plan for the Harbourage safe homes for child trafficking survivors. Statistics are updated bi-yearly and sources are at the end.
Statistics compiled by Ark of Hope for Children
High Springs, FL hope@arkofhopeforchildren.org
* "When a child has been recruited, t***sported, harbored, or received and some commercial element is introduced in the production of child pornography, then that individual has also engaged in child trafficking. Whether they work in strip clubs or sweatshops, these boys and girls are victims of human trafficking."
* The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defines “severe forms of trafficking in persons” as: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age."
* "The economic reality is that human trafficking is driven by profits. If nobody paid for sex, sex trafficking would not exist."
Where do trafficked children come from?
thumb barbed wire ark 600flatChild trafficking victims, whether for labor, sex or organ trafficking, come from all backgrounds, include both boys and girls. They span a wide age range from 1 to 18 years old. Sex trafficking victims up to roughly 25 years old most often started as young as 14. Children are trafficked out of, or into the United States from all regions of the world and represent a variety of different races, ethnic groups and religions. They may be brought to the U.S. legally or smuggled in.
Trafficked children can be lured to the U.S. through the promise of school or work and promised the opportunity to send money back to their families. Children are also vulnerable to kidnappers, pimps, and professional brokers. Some children are even sold to traffickers by their families, who may or may not have an understanding of what will happen to the child. U.S. born children are also trafficked within the U.S., coming from any racial group, socio-economic background, and come from or trafficked within both city and rural areas.
The numbers;
Update: In 2012 the (UNODC) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports the percentage of child victims had risen in a 3 year span from 20 per cent to 27 per cent. Of every three child victims, two are girls and one is a boy.
G****r and age profile of victims detected globally: 59% Women - 14% Men - 17% Girls and 10% were Boys.
600,000 to 800,000 women, children and men bought and sold across international borders every year and exploited for forced labor or commercial sex (U.S. Government)
When internal trafficking victims are added to the estimates, the number of victims annually is in the range of 2 to 4 million
50% of those victims are estimated to be children
It is estimated that 76 percent of t***sactions for sex with underage girls start on the Internet
2 million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade (UNICEF)
There are 20.9 Million victims of Trafficking World wide as of 2012
1.5 Million victims in the United States
The impact;
Human trafficking has surpassed the illegal sale of arms
Trafficking will surpass the illegal sale of drugs in the next few years
Drugs are used once and they are gone. Victims of child trafficking can be used and abused over and over
A $32 billion-a-year industry, human trafficking is on the rise and is in all 50 states (U.S. Government)
4.5 Million of trafficked persons are sexually exploited
Up to 300,000 Americans under 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade every year
From 14,500 - 17,500 of those victims are trafficked into the United States each year
Statistics compiled by Ark of Hope for Children
High Springs, FL hope@arkofhopeforchildren.org
* "When a child has been recruited, t***sported, harbored, or received and some commercial element is introduced in the production of child pornography, then that individual has also engaged in child trafficking. Whether they work in strip clubs or sweatshops, these boys and girls are victims of human trafficking."
* The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defines “severe forms of trafficking in persons” as: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age."
* "The economic reality is that human trafficking is driven by profits. If nobody paid for sex, sex trafficking would not exist."
Where do trafficked children come from?
thumb barbed wire ark 600flatChild trafficking victims, whether for labor, sex or organ trafficking, come from all backgrounds, include both boys and girls. They span a wide age range from 1 to 18 years old. Sex trafficking victims up to roughly 25 years old most often started as young as 14. Children are trafficked out of, or into the United States from all regions of the world and represent a variety of different races, ethnic groups and religions. They may be brought to the U.S. legally or smuggled in.
Trafficked children can be lured to the U.S. through the promise of school or work and promised the opportunity to send money back to their families. Children are also vulnerable to kidnappers, pimps, and professional brokers. Some children are even sold to traffickers by their families, who may or may not have an understanding of what will happen to the child. U.S. born children are also trafficked within the U.S., coming from any racial group, socio-economic background, and come from or trafficked within both city and rural areas.
The numbers;
Update: In 2012 the (UNODC) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports the percentage of child victims had risen in a 3 year span from 20 per cent to 27 per cent. Of every three child victims, two are girls and one is a boy.
G****r and age profile of victims detected globally: 59% Women - 14% Men - 17% Girls and 10% were Boys.
600,000 to 800,000 women, children and men bought and sold across international borders every year and exploited for forced labor or commercial sex (U.S. Government)
When internal trafficking victims are added to the estimates, the number of victims annually is in the range of 2 to 4 million
50% of those victims are estimated to be children
It is estimated that 76 percent of t***sactions for sex with underage girls start on the Internet
2 million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade (UNICEF)
There are 20.9 Million victims of Trafficking World wide as of 2012
1.5 Million victims in the United States
The impact;
Human trafficking has surpassed the illegal sale of arms
Trafficking will surpass the illegal sale of drugs in the next few years
Drugs are used once and they are gone. Victims of child trafficking can be used and abused over and over
A $32 billion-a-year industry, human trafficking is on the rise and is in all 50 states (U.S. Government)
4.5 Million of trafficked persons are sexually exploited
Up to 300,000 Americans under 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade every year
From 14,500 - 17,500 of those victims are trafficked into the United States each year
Jun 22, 2018 03:11:33 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
Ark of Hope for Children has compiled the followin... (show quote)
I can see where a border wall with strategically placed points of entry would be the very best tool to thwart these inhumane practices!
As far as sending money back to people that are willingly helping this industry; Just look at the main source of what I call money laundering [Western Union]. But I will be criticized for making that statement. But I really don't care, do you?
Build that wall! It is the human thing to do.
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