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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRec this one up please. It's hard hitting Florida news. Re: Human trafficking.
Opens the door to understanding how some of the illegal immigrants are coming across the borders. It should shift our attention to the people who are bringing them in for illicit reasons.
Palm Beach County is 'perfect storm' of human trafficking
Tesoro is one among thousands of victims of human trafficking, a crime federal investigators say is growing across the country and in South Florida. Palm Beach County, with its agriculture and tourism industries always on the lookout for low cost labor, is a "perfect storm" for human trafficking, investigators say.
"It's a multibillion dollar business," said Carmen Pino, assistant special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Homeland Security Investigations in Miami. "It's everywhere."
Pino said the crime is creeping into everyday life in South Florida, even though many people might not realize it.
"The possibility of anybody at anytime encountering a victim of human trafficking in South Florida is very possible," he said.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-15/news/fl-boca-trafficking-lombardi-20120916_1_human-farm-work-carmen-pino
Edweird
(8,570 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)It needs to be stopped now before the idea spreads.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And while sex trafficking is horrible, the majority of trafficking in persons is "plain old" labor slavery.
formercia
(18,479 posts)that catches the Shit Eaters.
Human Trafficking.....,which is how some people become Rich.
DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)When Confederate apologists say "the Cvil War was not about slavery" or "slavery would have died out." They are fools. If slavery was not outright banned, they would have Slave Kennels at Wal-Mart!"
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)we're definitely at a revolutionary turning point.
M_M
(163 posts)But I'll expect a rec from you when I post my Pluto Screwed by IAU thread.