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LuckyCharms

(17,444 posts)
Sat Jan 26, 2019, 09:16 AM Jan 2019

TA DAAAA!

Human traffickers. The victims, are women. And children. Maybe to a lesser extent, believe it or not, children.

Women are tied up. They're bound, duct tape put around their faces, around their mouths, and in many cases, they can't even breathe. They're put in the backs of cars or vans or trucks. They don't go through your port of entry. They make a right turn going very quickly.

They go into the desert areas, or whatever areas you can look at. and as soon as there's no protection, they make a left or a right into the United States of America. There's nobody to catch them, there's nobody to find them. They can't come through the port, because if they come through the port, people will see four women, sitting in a van, with tape around their face and around their mouth.

Can't have that. And that problem, because of the internet, is the biggest problem. It's never been like this before that you can imagine. It's at the worst level, human trafficking, in the history of the world. This is not a United States problem, this is a world problem. But they come through areas where they have no protection, where they have no steel barriers, where they have no walls. And we can stop almost 100% of that.



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TA DAAAA! (Original Post) LuckyCharms Jan 2019 OP
Out where the buses don't run. His brain is mush. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2019 #1
Don't tell him about the spoon dalton99a Jan 2019 #2

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)
2. Don't tell him about the spoon
Sat Jan 26, 2019, 10:10 AM
Jan 2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2018/06/20/airlines-globally-are-signing-up-to-fight-human-trafficking-up-to-60-of-which-involves-air-travel/
Jun 20, 2018, 06:05am
Airlines Are Signing Up To Fight Human Trafficking, Up To 60% Of Which Involves Border Crossing
Dan Reed

There are also new efforts underway to popularize in this country a technique used by girls and women in the United Kingdom and several other European nations to send a silent signal to airport security officers that they are being forced to travel against their will, either for human trafficking purposes to be sold by their families as a child bride. Girls are being advised to hide the spoon in their underwear if they suspect they might be abducted or forced to travel against their will, yet don’t know for sure if or when that will happen. A spoon was chosen as the signal device not only because its metal will set off security alarms at airports but also because a spoon can be easily in a girl’s underwear and be worn all day without discomfort.

Beginning about six years ago security experts in Britain began suggesting that teenage girls use the hidden spoon technique. If she is made to walk through an airport security checkpoint, triggering an alarm, she will moved to a private location for a more thorough search and questioning. Once there, and separated from the person abducting her or forcing her to travel against her will, the girl can inform security officers of her situation. The technique has been credited with saving a number of British and European girls from becoming sex slaves or being sold by family members as a child bride.


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