Government placing migrant children with traffickers

[icanhelp1]

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/...nt-children-with-traffickers-report-says.html

U.S. Placed Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says​

“WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services placed more than a dozen immigrant children in the custody of human traffickers after it failed to conduct background checks of caregivers, according to a Senate report released on Thursday.

Examining how the federal agency processes minors who arrive at the border without a guardian, lawmakers said they found that it had not followed basic practices of child welfare agencies, like making home visits.

The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations opened its inquiry after law enforcement officials uncovered a human trafficking ring in Marion, Ohio, last year. At least six children were lured to the United States from Guatemala with the promise of a better life, then were made to work on egg farms. The children, as young as 14, had been in federal custody before being entrusted to the traffickers.

“It is intolerable that human trafficking — modern-day slavery — could occur in our own backyard,” said Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio and the chairman of the subcommittee. “But what makes the Marion cases even more alarming is that a U.S. government agency was responsible for delivering some of the victims into the hands of their abusers.”

This is just scratching the surface.

 

[icanhelp1]

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/human-trafficking

https://www.texaspolicy.com/how-porous-borders-fuel-human-trafficking-in-the-united-states/

Slavery is alive and well today all across the world, and it comes in the form of human trafficking.

January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Human trafficking is today’s form of slavery as men, women, and children are recruited and exploited by being forced into labor against their will. There are many forms of trafficking, most notably forced sex exploitation, as well as domestic servitude, and factory and agricultural work. Victims of human trafficking experience physical and psychological abuse while being isolated from the world. It’s a tool their captors use to control them.

Every form of human trafficking is an atrocity, and every victim deserves to be rescued, rehabilitated, and cared for. One way in which the United States can help curb human trafficking is improving border security.

In the U.S., immigrants, especially immigrant women, make up the largest portion of trafficking victims. The Department of State estimates than in 2016, 57,700 victims had been trafficked into the U.S. annually. The true number is likely much larger and impossible to determine. In fiscal year 2021, there were nearly 2 million migrant apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border, and that number only accounts for the people encountered by border agents. More than 400,000 more migrants eluded apprehension and are counted among the “got-aways.”

Last year also met another unfortunate record—147,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered into the U.S., 122,000 were taken into the U.S. custody, the previous record being 69,000.

While some minors make it into the country with information on family members they have in the U.S., others end up in the foster system. According to the Department of State, a large number of child sex trafficking survivors in the U.S. were at one time in the foster care system. Being an immigrant places these children at a higher risk since they tend to have lower levels of education, an inability to speak English, and a lack of family and friends.

Sophisticated transnational syndicates are notorious for using children to get single, adult males not just across the border, but through Border Patrol processing.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/218462.pdf

A shameful secret Biden doesn’t want you to know.

 

[icanhelp1]

https://www.fairus.org/blog/2016/08...roubling-consequence-lax-immigration-policies

defending amnesty and loose immigration policies, open border proponents often justify illegal entry into the United States by pointing to the difficult situations that migrants are fleeing. Such rhetoric is then deployed to vilify anyone who calls for the southern border to be secured or for ending the allocation of federal benefits to illegal aliens.However, these same activists censor a more troubling story: that the process of immigrating into America illegally often ends in tragedy. Illegal immigrants are commonly found dead or dying near the southern border, fallen victim to exposure, thirst, human trafficking or cartel violence. According to an August 23 Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) press release, a county morgue in Arizona currently holds the bodies of approximately 850 illegal immigrants found near the border.“Our focus at the Medical Examiner’s Office is identifying remains of people that we have found. We still have about 800 to 850 that are unidentified,” said Dr. Gregory Hess, Pima County’s Chief Medical Examiner in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Hess’s morgue represents only one of Arizona’s 15 desert border counties, indicating that there are likely thousands more unidentified illegal aliens who perished while migrating into America.“The Arizona desert is a deadly trap,” says CBP Spokesperson Jaime Ruiz. “Migrants get easily disoriented and after long days of walking with no water or food, they succumb to unforgiving extreme temperatures. Migrants are either abandoned or tricked by human smugglers.”In addition to the high mortality rate that comes along with entering the United States illegally, as many as 19,000 foreigners fall victim to human trafficking every year. Cartels and other traffickers promise to guide legal and illegal aliens into America, promising them a better life. However, they are imposed with a “smuggling debt” once they arrive and forced into prostitution or hard labor in poor conditions with little, if any compensation.These heartbreaking stories are the result of a federal government that lays out a welcome mat for illegal immigrants by offering incentives such as drivers licenses, welfare and sanctuary policies. With the benefits far outweighing the shrinking risk of deportation, millions of migrants choose to enter America illegally.With this knowledge, repairing our broken immigration system becomes a human rights issue. Securing the border and removing incentives to enter the country illegally not only serves the best interests of American citizens and legal immigrants, it also protects unaware, would-be migrants from the possibility of exploitation, indentured servitude and even death.

 

[ll74]

This thread is a little all over the place now, isn't it?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/...nt-children-with-traffickers-report-says.html

U.S. Placed Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says​

“WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services placed more than a dozen immigrant children in the custody of human traffickers after it failed to conduct background checks of caregivers, according to a Senate report released on Thursday.

Examining how the federal agency processes minors who arrive at the border without a guardian, lawmakers said they found that it had not followed basic practices of child welfare agencies, like making home visits.

The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations opened its inquiry after law enforcement officials uncovered a human trafficking ring in Marion, Ohio, last year. At least six children were lured to the United States from Guatemala with the promise of a better life, then were made to work on egg farms. The children, as young as 14, had been in federal custody before being entrusted to the traffickers.

“It is intolerable that human trafficking — modern-day slavery — could occur in our own backyard,” said Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio and the chairman of the subcommittee. “But what makes the Marion cases even more alarming is that a U.S. government agency was responsible for delivering some of the victims into the hands of their abusers.”

This is just scratching the surface.

Article is paywalled,and the link to the Senate report gives a 404.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/human-trafficking

https://www.texaspolicy.com/how-porous-borders-fuel-human-trafficking-in-the-united-states/

Slavery is alive and well today all across the world, and it comes in the form of human trafficking.

January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Human trafficking is today’s form of slavery as men, women, and children are recruited and exploited by being forced into labor against their will. There are many forms of trafficking, most notably forced sex exploitation, as well as domestic servitude, and factory and agricultural work. Victims of human trafficking experience physical and psychological abuse while being isolated from the world. It’s a tool their captors use to control them.

Every form of human trafficking is an atrocity, and every victim deserves to be rescued, rehabilitated, and cared for. One way in which the United States can help curb human trafficking is improving border security.

In the U.S., immigrants, especially immigrant women, make up the largest portion of trafficking victims. The Department of State estimates than in 2016, 57,700 victims had been trafficked into the U.S. annually. The true number is likely much larger and impossible to determine. In fiscal year 2021, there were nearly 2 million migrant apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border, and that number only accounts for the people encountered by border agents. More than 400,000 more migrants eluded apprehension and are counted among the “got-aways.”

Last year also met another unfortunate record—147,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered into the U.S., 122,000 were taken into the U.S. custody, the previous record being 69,000.

While some minors make it into the country with information on family members they have in the U.S., others end up in the foster system. According to the Department of State, a large number of child sex trafficking survivors in the U.S. were at one time in the foster care system. Being an immigrant places these children at a higher risk since they tend to have lower levels of education, an inability to speak English, and a lack of family and friends.

Sophisticated transnational syndicates are notorious for using children to get single, adult males not just across the border, but through Border Patrol processing.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/218462.pdf

A shameful secret Biden doesn’t want you to know.

I'm curious how old that ACLU article is. All the end notes are from pre 2010.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

https://www.fairus.org/blog/2016/08...roubling-consequence-lax-immigration-policies

defending amnesty and loose immigration policies, open border proponents often justify illegal entry into the United States by pointing to the difficult situations that migrants are fleeing. Such rhetoric is then deployed to vilify anyone who calls for the southern border to be secured or for ending the allocation of federal benefits to illegal aliens.However, these same activists censor a more troubling story: that the process of immigrating into America illegally often ends in tragedy. Illegal immigrants are commonly found dead or dying near the southern border, fallen victim to exposure, thirst, human trafficking or cartel violence. According to an August 23 Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) press release, a county morgue in Arizona currently holds the bodies of approximately 850 illegal immigrants found near the border.“Our focus at the Medical Examiner’s Office is identifying remains of people that we have found. We still have about 800 to 850 that are unidentified,” said Dr. Gregory Hess, Pima County’s Chief Medical Examiner in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Hess’s morgue represents only one of Arizona’s 15 desert border counties, indicating that there are likely thousands more unidentified illegal aliens who perished while migrating into America.“The Arizona desert is a deadly trap,” says CBP Spokesperson Jaime Ruiz. “Migrants get easily disoriented and after long days of walking with no water or food, they succumb to unforgiving extreme temperatures. Migrants are either abandoned or tricked by human smugglers.”In addition to the high mortality rate that comes along with entering the United States illegally, as many as 19,000 foreigners fall victim to human trafficking every year. Cartels and other traffickers promise to guide legal and illegal aliens into America, promising them a better life. However, they are imposed with a “smuggling debt” once they arrive and forced into prostitution or hard labor in poor conditions with little, if any compensation.These heartbreaking stories are the result of a federal government that lays out a welcome mat for illegal immigrants by offering incentives such as drivers licenses, welfare and sanctuary policies. With the benefits far outweighing the shrinking risk of deportation, millions of migrants choose to enter America illegally.With this knowledge, repairing our broken immigration system becomes a human rights issue. Securing the border and removing incentives to enter the country illegally not only serves the best interests of American citizens and legal immigrants, it also protects unaware, would-be migrants from the possibility of exploitation, indentured servitude and even death.

And on this one, the press release also runs into a dead link....not to mention your grammar sucks, taking lessons from urguy now eh?

Excellent icant, three posts with back ground material dead. Why am I not surprised, your technical ability's have never shown to be that great during your time on here. Learned to quote yet??? *chuckles*

 

[ll74]

Fortunately, the government has increased their human trafficking efforts year over year, by leaps and bounds. 68% increase in prosecutions and captures in 2022.

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/news/b...afficking-data-collection-activities-2021-and

 

[ll74]

All in all, this thread seems to be using human trafficking emotional reaction to push for a change in immigration laws.

"Don't let them claim asylum, else they'll end up as prostitutes in some guys basement and the government will put them there...."

Traffickers trick people into being trafficked. That doesn't rely on any incentive or non incentive the US gives anyone....

 

[phrodeau]

I hardly expected icanhelp to argue that the State needs more nannies.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The Senate report the OP is talking about is from 7 years ago.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-con... Trafficking and Other Abuses 2016-01-282.pdf

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcom...e-role-of-the-office-of-refugee-resettlement/

 

[schism666]

Slavery is alive and well today all across the world, and it comes in the form of human trafficking.

A shameful secret Biden doesn’t want you to know.

there it is.

 

[Rightguide]

The Biden administration is facilitating human trafficking and the drug trade. His inaction on the border is transforming the nation and killing 100,000 young Americans a year.

 

[ll74]

The Biden administration is facilitating human trafficking and the drug trade. His inaction on the border is transforming the nation and killing 100,000 young Americans a year.

No they aren't.