<p>Internet porn empire Pornhub has come under fire in recent days for featuring videos of rape and sex trafficking victims on its platform.</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/time-to-shut-pornhub-down">explosive op-ed</a> in the Washington Examiner on Sunday, Laila Mickelwait noted &#8220;several shocking cases of sex trafficking and child rape films that were hosted on Pornhub&#8221; over the past few months, including one involving a 15-year-old girl who was missing for up to a year until her mother discovered 58 videos of her being hosted on the site. The girl&#8217;s trafficker was eventually spotted in a 7-Eleven surveillance video before police arrested him. Another case involved Michael Pratt, owner of GirlsDoPorn, who coerced 22 women into performing sex acts on camera; the acts were later posted to Pornhub.</p>
<p>&#8220;These women sued GirlsDoPorn and won a $12.7 million lawsuit against the company,&#8221; reported Mickelwait. &#8220;According to a federal indictment, Pratt and his co-conspirators produced child pornography and trafficked a minor. Pratt reportedly fled the United States for New Zealand and is currently wanted on a federal warrant.&#8221;</p>
<p>So how does Pornhub factor into this? Does the site in any way bear responsibility for these women being sex trafficked for the purpose of exploitation on its platform? According to Mickelwait, the site hosts up to six million videos per year that collectively generate a whopping 42 billion visitors and huge ad revenue. Throughout all this, the site &#8220;has no system in place to verify reliably the age or consent of those featured in the pornographic content it hosts.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In fact, all that is needed to upload pornography onto Pornhub is an email address,&#8221; writes Mickelwait. &#8220;No government-issued ID is required, not even to become &#8216;verified&#8217; with its trusty blue checkmark that makes everything seem a-OK. It took me under 10 minutes to create a user account and upload blank test content to the site, which went live instantly. I could have then gone on to become Pornhub-verified, and all I would need to do is send a photo of myself holding a paper with my username. That’s it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Beyond that, a simple search for &#8220;teen porn&#8221; on the site yields hundreds of videos featuring girls who look very young, complete with &#8220;braces, pigtails &#8230; and extremely young faces.&#8221; Some girls are even shown &#8220;holding teddy bears and licking lollipops.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to a recent investigation by <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9393zp/how-pornhub-moderation-works-girls-do-porn">VICE Motherboard</a>, Pornhub&#8217;s alleged &#8220;high-tech solution&#8221; meant to stop the spread and posting of such videos is all but useless:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pornhub claims that victims of nonconsensual porn — as many of the Girls Do Porn videos are — can easily request to remove videos from the site, and that those videos can be &#8220;fingerprinted.&#8221; Broadly speaking, video fingerprinting is a method for software to identify, extract, and then summarize characteristic components or metadata of a video, allowing that video to be uniquely identified by its &#8220;fingerprint.&#8221;</p>
<p>But a Motherboard investigation found that this system can be easily and quickly circumvented with minor editing. Pornhub&#8217;s current method for removing Girls Do Porn videos and other forms of non-consensual porn not only puts the onus of finding and flagging videos almost entirely on potentially-traumatized victims — those victims can&#8217;t even rely on the system to work.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dr. Ann Olivarius, founder of McAllister Olivarius, bluntly stated that Pornhub essentially has no incentive to regulate such videos so long as they continue to pad its bottom line.</p>
<p>“The core problem is that image-based abuse videos (so-called revenge porn), and coerced videos such as Girls Do Porn, are a significant part of Pornhub and other sites’ business models,&#8221; said Dr. Olivarius. &#8220;They are massively popular with users and with site owners, and either free or incredibly cheap to produce. What, exactly, is the incentive for a site like Pornhub to remove one of their most popular products?&#8221;</p>


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<p>As National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-representatives-call-on-barr-to-prosecute-obscene-pornography/">reports,</a> a small group of Republican lawmakers have sent a letter calling for Attorney General Bill Barr to enforce obscenity laws as a way to fight hardcore pornography. Representative Jim Banks of Indiana explains that pornography causes measurable harm in a number of significant ways:</p>
<blockquote><p>Child pornography is <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/child-pornography-basic-f_b_4094430">on the rise</a> as one of the fastest-growing online businesses with an annual revenue over $3 billion<em>.</em>The <a href="https://www.asacp.org/whitepaper/ASACP-whitepaper-9-10-2010.pdf">United States</a> has nearly 50% of all commercialized child pornography websites. Pornography is ubiquitous in our culture and our <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/children-being-exposed-pornography-through-parents-internet-searches-2019-jul">children are being exposed</a> at younger ages. <a href="http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV169.pdf">Nine in every ten</a> boys under the age of 18 have seen porn. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5507751/NSPCC-offers-counselling-children-young-11-addicted-porn.html">Children</a> are struggling with pornography addiction.</p></blockquote>
<p>For these reasons and others, several states have already declared pornography a public health crisis, as the lawmakers mentioned in their letter. To be clear, what they are requesting is the enforcement of existing laws that would help to tamp down some forms of pornography. They are not calling for new laws to be put on the books. Personally, I&#8217;d hope that this is a first step towards a wider-ranging war on hardcore porn, though that&#8217;s not what the lawmakers are advocating. At the very least, this should be the beginning of a conversation about the proliferation of hardcore porn, and the government&#8217;s role in addressing the problem.</p>
<p>But this is not a conversation most people want to have. Of course, you&#8217;d expect those on the political Left to resist any effort to restrict or ban porn. After all, that&#8217;s the side that generally supports explicit sex education for children, child drag queens, trans kids, and so on. They are committed to exposing children to all manner of sexual confusion and degeneracy at increasingly younger and younger ages. The real shame is that many on the Right are just as likely to valiantly stand up for the rights of internet pimps and smut peddlers. Any talk of porn restriction is waved off with slogans about &#8220;limited government&#8221; and declarations about the ineffectiveness of prohibition.</p>
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<p>I agree that government should be limited. I also agree that the government can&#8217;t go around prohibiting everything that the bureaucrats currently comprising it happen to dislike. But I still think there is a role for the government to play in the porn problem. I&#8217;ll explain why.</p>
<p>The most common defense of porn is that it&#8217;s a matter involving consenting adults and has no effect on anyone else. If this were true, I&#8217;d probably agree that the government has no place in restricting it, even if it is morally objectionable. However, this is not only untrue — it is laughably untrue. First of all, the <a href="https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-porn-sex-trafficking-connected/">link</a> between the sex trafficking industry and porn is well established. The porn viewer may assume that the figures on the screen are acting consensually, but the fact is that, at least some of the time, they are not. The viewer may also assume that the people involved are all adults (unless he&#8217;s intentionally accessing child porn, which is a <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050818005532/en/Illegal-Child-Pornography-Fastest-Growing-Internet-Businesses">billion dollar industry</a> in its own right), but sometimes they are not. The viewer simply has no way of knowing whether he&#8217;s watching the rape of a trafficked woman, or the abuse of a minor, or a consensual act between sober and clear-minded adults. But he&#8217;s not too concerned, as long as he gets what he wants out of the deal.</p>
<p>This is reason enough for, at a minimum, much heavier regulation on internet porn. It&#8217;s true that sex trafficking and child porn are both illegal already, but legal porn provides a platform for both. It&#8217;s impossible to sufficiently fight trafficking and child porn without heavier regulations on the types of porn that allegedly involve neither. But even if this significant concern could be put to the side, the case for regulating or banning porn would remain. That&#8217;s because porn — even consensual, adult porn — harms children.</p>
<p>On average, children are <a href="https://www.netnanny.com/blog/the-detrimental-effects-of-pornography-on-small-children/">first exposed</a> to hardcore porn at the age of 11, if not sooner. This exposure is not neutral in its impact. Children are <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/child_law/resources/child_law_practiceonline/child_law_practice/vol-33/may-2014/how-pornography-harms-children--the-advocate-s-role/">damaged in quantifiable ways</a>, affecting their emotional and psychological development, their attitude towards themselves and others, their behavior, and their ability to form healthy sexual relationships in the future. Porn even <a href="https://fightthenewdrug.org/how-porn-changes-the-brain/">produces neurological changes</a> in the brain. Is there not, at minimum, a reason to <em>consider</em> involving the state in this assault on our children&#8217;s minds and bodies?</p>
<p>Consenting adults may well have the right to do what they want with each other in the privacy of their homes. But do they have a right to film it and then publish it on a forum where children in elementary school might easily access it? Where does this right originate? God? Did God instill in all humans the inalienable and sacred right to publish footage of their orgies on the internet for all to view? If God did not, then from where or what does this right spring? Perhaps we should consider the possibility that there is no such right. It is a privilege that society can either choose to grant or not. Now the question is whether the privilege of adults to post their sexual escapades online is more important than the privilege of children to be protected from the profound psychological harm caused by exposure to such escapades.</p>
<p>You might argue that this is something for parents, and not government, to handle. But this argument ignores the reality of the situation. Parents cannot possibly shield their children from a porn epidemic that is so ubiquitous and accessible. Even if they restrict all internet access in their own homes, and refuse to allow their children to have phones with internet access (a wise move, to be sure), all it requires is one friend whose parents have not taken that step. And every kid will have at least one friend like that — probably many more than just one. This is a problem that parents <em>cannot</em> handle on their own. That&#8217;s why the state may have a role.</p>


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<p>A Marine based at Camp Pendleton in California has been arrested for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Mexico.</p>
<p>NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/marine-arrested-cbp-allegedly-smuggling-undocumented-immigrants-u-s-n1095256">reported</a> that the Marine had just finished entry-level training (meaning he had completed boot camp, infantry training, and his military occupational specialty training) when he was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officials.</p>
<p>“The smuggling took place at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the 1st Marine Division told NBC News in a statement,” the outlet reported. The Marine is currently being held in civilian custody and has not been identified. ABC7 <a href="https://abc7.com/marine-arrested-after-bringing-in-undocumented-immigrants-officials-said/5733703/">reported</a> that it was unclear at this time whether this case will be “transferred to the military justice system.”</p>
<p>NBC also reported that this is not the first Marine from Camp Pendleton to be arrested for human trafficking:</p>
<blockquote><p>This isn’t the first time in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-marines-california-allegedly-smuggled-undocumented-immigrants-across-border-cash-n1027786">recent months</a> Marines from Camp Pendleton, where the 1st Marine Division is based, have been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/16-marines-arrested-human-smuggling-drug-charges-n1034661">detained on suspicion of human trafficking</a>. The Marine Corps said of the 23 Marines detained in July from three separate incidents involving human trafficking, drug distribution and weapons charges, six have pleaded guilty to charges at court-martials.</p>
<p>Thirteen of them have agreed to leave the Marines and the rest are in the &#8220;process of being adjudicated&#8221; according to the statement.</p></blockquote>
<p>Authorities told the outlet that there is no connection between the current Marine and the previous offenses.</p>
<p>Camp Pendleton is located 38 miles from downtown San Diego, and is described as “the Corps&#8217; largest West Coast expeditionary training facility,” encompassing “more than 125,000 acres of Southern California terrain,” according to the Marine Corps <a href="https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/About/Introduction/">website</a>.</p>
<p>Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-camp-pendleton-marines-plead-guilty-to-human-trafficking-drug-charges">reported</a> that 16 of the 23 Marines arrested in July were taken during a Battalion formation. In November, however, a military judge ruled their arrests had been unlawful and that their rights had been violated. It is unclear where in the myriad of case outcomes those 16 fall. The 16 were arrested after authorities learned information regarding their actions from an earlier human smuggling investigation, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/16-marines-arrested-human-smuggling-drug-charges-n1034661">reported</a> at the time.</p>
<p>It was earlier in July when two other Marines were arrested for allegedly transporting illegal immigrants in exchange for money. Those two Marines are among the four still facing criminal charges. The two Marines would allegedly receive the immigrants “at a pickup point about 20 miles east of a U.S. port of entry at Tecate and seven miles north of the border,” NBC reported. The two Marines were also questioned about drug offenses, though those weren’t related to smuggling drugs.</p>
<p>The other five were arrested during a separate incident.</p>
<p>None of the Marines that have been arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants were part of the Southwest Border Support mission, various outlets reported.</p>


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<p>Attorney General William Barr warned co-conspirators in the sex trafficking case involving convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that they &#8220;should not rest easy&#8221; because the case is not over despite Epstein&#8217;s death over the weekend.</p>
<p>Barr, who delivered the remarks while speaking to the National Fraternal Order of Police in New Orleans, said that the case was personally important to him and the Justice Department.</p>
<p>&#8220;Most importantly, this case was important to the victims who had the courage to come forward, and deserve the opportunity to confront the accused in the courtroom,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;Let me assure you this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy. The victims deserve justice, and they will get it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Epstein died early on Saturday morning after he was found unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, which quickly ignited conspiracy theories from the mainstream media.</p>
<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-scarborough-msnbc-jeffrey-epstein-suicide">suggested</a> that Russia could have been involved in Epstein&#8217;s death while fellow MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/08/10/totally-insane-msnbc-host-says-ag-william-barr-might-be-involved-in-epsteins-de-n2551477">suggested</a> that Barr was involved in Epstein&#8217;s death and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50523/watch-msnbcs-joy-ann-reid-insinuates-bill-barr-hank-berrien">suggested</a> that he might be involved in a cover-up.</p>
<p>Following Epstein&#8217;s death, Barr released the following <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-william-p-barr-death-jeffrey-epstein">statement</a>: &#8220;I was appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead early this morning from an apparent suicide while in federal custody. Mr. Epstein&#8217;s death raises serious questions that must be answered. In addition to the FBI&#8217;s investigation, I have consulted with the Inspector General who is opening an investigation into the circumstances of Mr. Epstein&#8217;s death.&#8221;</p>
<p>Epstein&#8217;s death came after the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) unsealed more than 2,000 documents in the case on Friday, which included accusations from one of Epstein&#8217;s alleged victims who named several alleged co-conspirators.</p>
<p>&#8220;The papers included affidavits and depositions of key witnesses in a lawsuit the now-33-year-old woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, filed against Epstein and his associate, Ghislane Maxwell in 2015,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50466/breaking-jeffrey-epstein-accuser-names-multiple-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>, adding that two of the men listed were &#8220;prominent Democratic politicians — former Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico governor and Clinton cabinet official Bill Richardson.&#8221;</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>NEW: Attorney General Bill Barr: &#8220;Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/2UAm012vCA">https://t.co/2UAm012vCA</a> <a href="https://t.co/YGAKFg2oYg">pic.twitter.com/YGAKFg2oYg</a></p>
<p>— ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1160928687052562437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>According to a stunning and bone-chillingly horrific new <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-china-sex-trade-rape-slavery-abuse-trafficking-a8921481.html">report</a> in The Independent of the U.K., which cites an investigation from a small NGO called the Korea Future Initiative, there is a transnational criminal network in which &#8220;tens of thousands&#8221; of hapless North Korean women are &#8220;sold into China sex trade and systemically raped.&#8221;</p>
<p>Per The Independent:</p>
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<p>Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls are trafficked and sold into the sex trade in China where they are forced to endure systemic rape, sexual slavery and cybersex trafficking, according to a new report.</p>
<p>The investigation, by the Korea Future Initiative, has uncovered new and disturbing patterns of horrific sexual abuse perpetrated against trafficked North Korean women and girls in mainland China. It found women are also being subject to sex trafficking, sexual abuse, prostitution and forced marriage there.</p>
<p>&#8220;Pushed from their homeland by a patriarchal regime that survives through the imposition of tyranny, poverty, and oppression, North Korean women and girls are passed through the hands of traffickers, brokers, and criminal organisations,&#8221; the report says. &#8220;Before being pulled into China&#8217;s sex trade, where they are exploited and used by men until their bodies are depleted.&#8221;</p>
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<p>According to the report, the &#8220;&#8216;complex and interconnected network of criminality&#8217; accrues an estimated $105 million annually&#8221; from the grisly treatment of North Korean women as mere commodities for the transnational criminal networks.</p>
<p>The full report can be viewed <a href="https://www.koreafuture.org/report/sex-slaves">here</a>.</p>
<p>The report&#8217;s author, Yoon Hee-soon, explained: &#8220;The exploitation of North Korean women and girls generates annual profits of at least $105 million for the Chinese underworld. Victims are prostituted for as little as ¥30 Chinese Yuan ($4), sold as wives for just ¥1000 Chinese Yuan ($146), and trafficked into cybersex dens for exploitation by a global online audience.&#8221;</p>
<p>The report&#8217;s authors <a href="https://www.koreafuture.org/report/sex-slaves">describe</a> the nature of the complex operation as a &#8220;damning indictment&#8221; of the governments of both North Korea and China:</p>
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<p>At a time when significant global capital is invested in China and, more recently, political capital expended on North Korea, it is a damning indictment that North Korean women and girls are left languishing in the sex trade. Condemnation is insufficient. Only tangible acts can dismantle China&#8217;s sex trade, confront a North Korean regime that abhors women, and rescue sex slaves scattered across brothels, remote townships, and cybersex dens in mainland China. That Korea Future Initiative &#8212; a small nongovernmental organisation that receives no funding or support from governments, human rights institutions, or grant-giving bodies &#8212; was able to uncover abuses largely overlooked by the international community should act as an incentive to all.</p>
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<p>The hermit kingdom of North Korea is the world&#8217;s last <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korean-gulags-terrible-or-even-worse-nazi-camps-auschwitz-n828751">truly Stalinist, gulag state</a>. In 2017, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korean-gulags-terrible-or-even-worse-nazi-camps-auschwitz-n828751">described</a> a <a href="https://www.ibanet.org/Document/Default.aspx?DocumentUid=5228d915-42d4-4880-8b07-c4703f074b19">report</a> by the International Bar Association War Crimes Committee. As NBC News chillingly reported, &#8220;Thomas Buergenthal &#8212; a renowned judge on the committee and a survivor of Auschwitz &#8212; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-koreas-prisons-are-as-bad-as-nazi-camps-says-judge-who-survived-auschwitz/2017/12/11/7e79beea-ddc4-11e7-b2e9-8c636f076c76_story.html?utm_term=.441cce3e817f">told The Washington Post</a> that North Korea&#8217;s gulags &#8216;are as terrible, or even worse&#8217; than the Nazi camps he experienced as a child.&#8221;</p>
<p>Denuclearization talks between the U.S. and North Korea are presently at a standstill. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46214/comical-north-korea-demands-mike-pompeo-be-josh-hammer">reported</a> last month, North Korea recently demanded that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not be a part of any future negotiations.</p>


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<p>In March, an eye-opening New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html">report</a> elaborated on the humanitarian catastrophe involving migrants subjected to sexual violence and gang rape by cartels and traffickers at our <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45822/hammer-customs-and-border-protections-insane-march-josh-hammer">beleaguered</a> southern border. The Times reported:</p>
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<p>On America&#8217;s southern border, migrant women and girls are the victims of sexual assaults that most often go unreported, uninvestigated and unprosecuted. Even as women around the world are speaking out against sexual misconduct, migrant women on the border live in the shadows of the #MeToo movement.</p>
<p>The stories are many, and yet all too similar. Undocumented women making their way into American border towns have been beaten for disobeying smugglers, impregnated by strangers, coerced into prostitution, shackled to beds and trees and &#8212; in at least a handful of cases &#8212; bound with duct tape, rope or handcuffs.</p>
<p>The New York Times found dozens of documented cases through interviews with law enforcement officials, prosecutors, federal judges and immigrant advocates around the country, and a review of police reports and court records in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. The review showed more than 100 documented reports of sexual assault of undocumented women along the border in the past two decades, a number that most likely only skims the surface, law enforcement officials and advocates say.</p>
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<p>As Rachel Bovard <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/09/where-is-metoo-for-women-at-the-border/">argued</a> shortly thereafter at American Greatness, the Times&#8217; report highlighted a &#8220;serious and endemic crisis of assault.&#8221; Tragically, as Bovard persuasively pointed out, &#8220;as long as our asylum laws encourage illegal immigration through ease of entry and catch and release; as long as migrants believe that putting their lives in the hands of a coyote is worth it; as long as illegal immigrants know it is more advantageous to show up with a child than to come alone, this epidemic of sexual assault will not only sustain itself, it will grow.&#8221;</p>
<p>But not enough attention is paid to the remarkably profitable nature of human smuggling and trafficking for the transnational cartel enterprises.</p>
<p>Helping to shine a light on this aspect of our border crisis is a recent <a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10057.html">report</a> from the non-partisan RAND Corporation entitled, &#8220;Human Smuggling from Central America to the United States.&#8221; In the report, RAND researchers find that drug trafficking-centric transnational cartels &#8220;control primary smuggling corridors into the United States&#8221; and estimate that the total &#8220;revenues to all types of smugglers, not just [transnational cartels], from smuggling migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, combined, ranged from about $200 million to about $2.3 billion in 2017.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, cartels and trafficking rings earned as much as $2.3 billion from human smuggling just in the year 2017. This is a humanitarian nightmare, and we ignore it at our peril.</p>
<p>One possible solution, offered from the same RAND report, is for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to &#8220;consider expanding existing efforts to investigate payments to human smugglers, especially in the United States, and working more closely with formal and informal banking services to identify suspicious payments.&#8221; Another legislative option, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46033/finally-amid-border-crisis-lindsey-graham-josh-hammer">at least some</a> in Congress appear to be considering, is to tighten our porous asylum regime. Another solution is for either Congress or the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46601/hammer-why-did-dhs-abort-its-re-writing-infamous-josh-hammer">DHS itself to vitiate</a> the much-ballyhooed and misbegotten <em>Flores </em>consent decree that hamstrings the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement efforts at our southern border.</p>


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<p>On Saturday, CBS News posted a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-business-immigration-coyotes-cbsn-originals/">rather unusual story</a> that seems to mollycoddle and glorify a group of individuals of a rather unique &#8220;profession&#8221;: Human smugglers.</p>
<p>Yes, really.</p>
<p>Per <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-business-immigration-coyotes-cbsn-originals/">CBS News</a>:</p>
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<p>Along the Panama-Colombia border lies 60 miles of dense forest where smugglers known as coyotes guide migrants seeking passage north, for the right price.</p>
<p>Emerson Gonzalez Jimenez said he typically charges $700 to get people safely from Capurgana, Colombia, to Bajo Chiquito, Panama. He said he sometimes makes exceptions and lowers the cost, especially if he encounters migrants who were abandoned by their group. &#8220;Many get lost. They lose the path,&#8221; said Gonzalez Jimenez.</p>
<p>&#8220;I helped a lot of people, particularly women with children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because many have passed through here and not made it.&#8221; &#8230;</p>
<p>These hazards create an economic opportunity for men like Gonzalez Jimenez. &#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Most people think we (smugglers) are bad,&#8221; Gonzalez Jimenez said. &#8220;But if a person needs to go from there to here, and can&#8217;t do it&#8230; and they tell me, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to pay you five, 10, 20 dollars&#8230; to take me to whatever location.&#8217; And if I didn&#8217;t have a job at the time&#8230; to me, that&#8217;s good.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Well, then.</p>
<p>As The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/01/cbs-news-coyotes-helping-migrants/">notes</a>, many conservatives did not react particularly well to this bit of hard-cutting &#8220;journalism&#8221; &#8212; journalism that &#8220;tr[ies] to put a positive spin on the people who routinely endanger the lives of vulnerable illegal immigrants.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Among liberal activists and their allies in the mainstream media, there&#8217;s a reluctance to acknowledge the darker side of the migrant crisis&#8212;or even admit that it&#8217;s a crisis at all,&#8221; tweeted John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist. &#8220;Hence CBS&#8217;s portrayal of two migrant smugglers as humanitarians.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Among liberal activists and their allies in the mainstream media, there&#8217;s a reluctance to acknowledge the darker side of the migrant crisis&#8212;or even admit that it&#8217;s a crisis at all. Hence CBS&#8217;s portrayal of two migrant smugglers as humanitarians. <a href="https://twitter.com/FDRLST?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FDRLST</a> <a href="https://t.co/6HObmF6UPn">https://t.co/6HObmF6UPn</a></p>
<p>&#8212; John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnddavidson/status/1112728990068998146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Finally lived long enough to get so hyper-woke about applauding illegal immigration that we got a sympathetic piece from the network news about how underappreciated human traffickers are,&#8221; sarcastically tweeted Jeff Blehar.</p>
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<p>Finally lived long enough to get so hyper-woke about applauding illegal immigration that we got a sympathetic piece from the network news about how underappreciated human traffickers are. <a href="https://t.co/bSfyEmGijo">https://t.co/bSfyEmGijo</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1112345342274605056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Caleb Howe, writing at <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/coyotes-trafficking-cbs-border">TheBlaze</a>, opines that the backlash to CBS News amounts to &#8220;the internet mob get[ting] it right&#8221;:</p>
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<p>A backlash on social media isn&#8217;t a reliable gauge of whether a person or story is correct or a take is good or bad, but sometimes even the internet mob gets it right. That is the case with the tremendous negative response to a story that was tweeted by CBS News over the weekend praising so-called &#8220;coyotes.&#8221; &#8230;</p>
<p>A 2010 report from the United Nations estimated the revenue generated by the network of coyotes smuggling people from Central and South America into the U.S. at about $6.6 billion, annually. Migrants hoping to make their way here can pay anywhere from $4,000 to over $10,000 dollars for the services of a coyote. That&#8217;s per person. From within Mexico prices can be considerably less, as low as below a thousand.</p>
<p>Even without a criminal element to contend with, the &#8220;business&#8221; is incredibly risky. It involves paying bribes to government officials in multiple countries, paying off the drug cartels, hiding in safe houses, and arduous hiking through jungles, across open terrain, all the belongings you can carry on your back, and often with inadequate supplies.</p>
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<p>As even The New York Times has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html">reported</a>, sexual assault from coyotes and traffickers is a huge humanitarian problem on the U.S.-Mexico border: &#8220;On America&#8217;s southern border, migrant women and girls are the victims of sexual assaults that most often go unreported, uninvestigated and unprosecuted. &#8230; The stories are many, and yet all too similar. Undocumented women making their way into American border towns have been beaten for disobeying smugglers, impregnated by strangers, coerced into prostitution, shackled to beds and trees and &#8212; in at least a handful of cases &#8212; bound with duct tape, rope or handcuffs.&#8221;</p>
<p>Someone ought to inform CBS News.</p>


CBS News Posts Unusual Story Glorifying Human Traffickers

Media

Media Bias

<p>Timothy Ballard, the founder of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), has dedicated his life to fighting human trafficking. His new nonfiction book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Slave-Stealers-True-Accounts-Rescues-then/dp/162972484X">Slave Stealers: True Accounts Of Slave Rescues Then and Now</a>,&#8221; presents the harrowing stories of several innocent men, women, and children, some from the not-so-distant past and some here in the present, all rescued from wicked enemies. </p>
<p>One of the accounts presented in the book focuses on the plight of Harriet Jacobs, a slave living in the antebellum South. Ballard quotes from her autobiography, &#8220;Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,&#8221; to help explain the horrors she went through. She works under a cruel master who terrorizes her and her daughter and son. After her children are freed by a kind-hearted friend, she manages to escape but is forced to live in a virtual crawlspace for seven years. </p>
<p>Though her life is marked by struggle and hardship, she relies on the kindness of friends, family, and total strangers in order to escape her ordeal and eventually make her way to the Underground Railroad. </p>
<p>Ballard also describes his own journey to founding OUR. Though he had a stable job with the government, he encountered something that changed his life. After meeting a parent who lost his children to human traffickers in 2011 in Haiti, Ballard decided he could no longer sit idly by and just listen to more heartbreaking stories. </p>
<p>He formed the organization OUR to assist in developing strategies for rescues. His team has led operations in South America, Asia, and even in North America, helping dozens of children escape from slavery and return home. </p>
<p>The stories in the book are startling to read, but they are all stories that need to be heard. Ballard tells both the historical and more modern details in a way that grips your heart. From rescue after rescue, the stories are inspirational and well told. </p>
<p>&#8220;What (do they) know of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from their arms by slave traders? Of young girls dragged down into moral filth? Of pools of blood around the whipping post? I was resolved that I would foil my master and save my children or I would perish in the attempt.&#8221; &#8211; Harriet Jacobs, ILSG, 1861</p>
<p>To learn more about OUR, visit their <a href="http://ourrescue.org/blog/">website</a>. </p>


Book Review: ‘Slave Stealers’ By Timothy Ballard

American History

Sexual Assault

<p>Experts warned Monday that large numbers of child slaves may be working on cannabis farms in London.</p>
<p>Since 2016, authorities have found 314 illegal cannabis farms in London, according to police data. The most alarming figures, however, come via human trafficking experts, who warn that the number of children used as slave labor on these farms is likely in the thousands.</p>
<p>&#8220;Experts say children are being trafficked from Vietnam and other countries to work in these farms, which are often located in residential properties, and that the scale of the problem has been vastly underestimated,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-crime-slavery/discovery-of-london-cannabis-farms-raises-child-slavery-fears-idUSKCN1L51TT">Reuters reports</a>.</p>
<p>The Australian human rights group, Walk Free, claims that Britain is home to 136,000 slaves. Last year, more than 2,000 child trafficking victims were reportedly referred to British authorities, the highest number on record, the group says.</p>
<p>&#8220;The high number of cannabis farms across London and trafficking of Vietnamese children to work in them is extremely worrying,&#8221; said Jakub Sobik, a spokesman for Anti-Slavery International. &#8220;Potentially thousands of children and young people are being trafficked from Vietnam and exploited by ruthless criminal gangs.&#8221;</p>
<p>In February, the British government came under fire for refusing asylum to an orphan from Vietnam who was trafficked to work in the cannabis industry.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is vital that these children are seen by police as victims first and foremost and given proper support, as too often they are treated as criminals instead,&#8221; Catherine Baker, a police officer at the anti-child trafficking organization ECPAT UK, told Reuters. &#8220;These vulnerable children are exploited in extremely dangerous conditions, with little or no pay and may be physically and psychologically abused by their traffickers.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2015, Britain passed the Modern Slavery Act to fight human trafficking and put traffickers in jail for life, however; some have questioned if the law has had any effect on the trafficking industry. </p>


SHOCK REPORT: Large Numbers Of Child Slaves May Be Working On Cannabis Farms In London

Children

Marijuana

United Kingdom

Vietnam

<p>A total of 39 law enforcement agencies conducted a massive sex-trafficking sting operation which concluded this week and resulted in hundreds of arrests and hundreds of children rescued.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/north-fulton-county/metro-sex-trafficking-sting-rescues-nearly-160-children-authorities-say/764243882">WSB-TV</a> reports:</p>
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<p>Operation Safe Summer was a collaborative effort between the FBI&#8217;s Atlanta field office and 38 law enforcement agencies in six metro counties. &#8230;</p>
<p>The sting ended with nearly 160 children rescued, including one as young as 3 years old, and nearly 150 arrests, convictions or sentences, officials said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;They are crimes of special concern to the FBI and to law enforcement generally,&#8221; Special Agent in Charge Matt Alcoke told WSB-TV. &#8220;Because the victims are so vulnerable as children and because the offenders could be from just about any walk of life, from a gang member all the way up to someone who is highly successful and wealthy.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important for those of us who are responsible for the children, the parents, the guardians, the older siblings, to not let children fall away (from) those strongly centered circles of importance,&#8221; Alcoke continued.</p>
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Atlanta Sex-Trafficking Sting Results In Hundreds Of Rescued Children And Arrests, Report Says

<p>President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), on Wednesday. </p>
<p>The bipartisan anti-human trafficking bill was passed by both houses of Congress before landing on Trump&#8217;s desk. In the signing ceremony, Trump was surrounded by his daughter Ivanka, several lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, and survivors of human trafficking. <strong><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/signing-allow-states-victims-fight-online-sex-trafficking-act-president-donald-j-trump-provides-invaluable-tools-needed-fight-scourge-sex-trafficking/">The bill</a></strong> &#8220;amends the Communications Act of 1934 to create an exception for sex trafficking, making it easier to target websites with legal action for enabling such crimes&#8221; and &#8220;provides new legal recourse for victims and law enforcement alike.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Thank you very much for being with us today as we sign this crucial legislation to combat online sex trafficking and bring criminals to justice,&#8221; said Trump during the ceremony. &#8220;And the people behind me have been working on this long and hard. That&#8217;s political, as well as some of our great citizens. And we appreciate it.&#8221;</p>
<p>He continued: &#8220;Most importantly, I want to thank the survivors and families who join us today. I&#8217;m signing this bill in your honor. And we are all together, politicians, both Republican and Democrat, signing this and representing this to you in your honor. So thank you all very much. We very much appreciate it. You&#8217;re very brave.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump praised the courage of survivors and emphasized their role in getting the bill passed. &#8220;You&#8217;ve endured what no person on Earth should ever have to endure, and we are going to do everything in our power to make sure that traffickers are brought to a swift and firm justice,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I&#8217;ve heard statistics where trafficking in the world is more now than it ever has been ever in the history of the world. And you wouldn&#8217;t believe that with, you know, modern-day everything. But they use modern-day better than law enforcement can use modern-day, whether it&#8217;s the Internet or anything else.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added, &#8220;So I want to thank you for your courage, and thank you for helping survivors across our country. And you are not alone. You are not alone. And this is a very important day. If we work together, we can get the criminal traffickers off our streets and off of the internet. We can bring safety and hope to every community across the country, and we can create a culture that respects the dignity of every child of God.&#8221;</p>
<p>Watch the signing ceremony below:</p>
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WATCH: Trump Signs Bill To Combat Online Sex Trafficking

Conservatism

Donald Trump

Ivanka Trump

Kevin McCarthy

Richard Blumenthal

Sexual Harassment

<p>The far-left Women&#8217;s March on Saturday came out in support of a website that was recently seized by the U.S. government for its involvement in sex-trafficking and underage prostitution.</p>
<p>A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 93-count indictment against seven people associated with Backpage.com on Friday for their alleged involvement in knowingly facilitating illegal prostitution and money laundering. <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/06/justice-seizes-backpage-prostitution-ads-507343">Politico</a> reports:</p>
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<p>Backpage and its founders have been the subject of intense investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in recent years. Critics said the site not only promoted illegal prostitution but facilitated sex trafficking and sexual abuse of children.</p>
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<p>Despite this win against sex trafficking, the Women&#8217;s March came out against the government&#8217;s decision to shut down the website and openly advocated for the rights of sex workers.</p>
<p>The Women&#8217;s March tweeted: &#8220;The shutting down of #Backpage is an absolute crisis for sex workers who rely on the site to safely get in touch with clients. Sex workers rights are women&#8217;s rights.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The shutting down of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Backpage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Backpage</a> is an absolute crisis for sex workers who rely on the site to safely get in touch with clients. Sex workers rights are women&#8217;s rights. Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/SafeSpacesDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SafeSpacesDC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/melissagira?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@melissagira</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/swopusa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@swopusa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KateDAdamo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KateDAdamo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/supporthosechi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@supporthosechi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/anaorsomething?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@anaorsomething</a> for more info. <a href="https://t.co/S3Orx3aM8Z">https://t.co/S3Orx3aM8Z</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Women&#8217;s March (@womensmarch) <a href="https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/982689439574085634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Women&#8217;s March added: &#8220;In the coming days, we will be sharing more about sex workers rights to uplift this critical issue. We&#8217;re all still learning and as always, we have to listen to the voices of those most impacted. #SexWorkIsWork&#8221;</p>
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<p>In the coming days, we will be sharing more about sex workers rights to uplift this critical issue. We&#8217;re all still learning and as always, we have to listen to the voices of those most impacted. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SexWorkIsWork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SexWorkIsWork</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Women&#8217;s March (@womensmarch) <a href="https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/982689517927895040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In 2016, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/07/backpage-delaware-llc-good-standing/496076002/">tried to prosecute</a> Backpage operators, saying that they were &#8220;raking in millions of dollars from the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable victims,&#8221; and that they &#8220;designed Backpage to be the world&#8217;s top online brothel.&#8221;</p>


SHOCK: Women’s March Supports Sex Trafficking, Child Prostitution Website

<p>This week, after Congress sent a bill to President Trump that would punish websites used for sex trafficking, the online classifieds site Craigslist removed its &#8220;personals&#8217; section. That section enabled anonymous people to connect with each other for romance or sex.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/business/craigslist-personals-trafficking-bill.html">The New York Times</a> reports, &#8220;While many people used the site to find relationships &#8212; one of the discontinued categories is &#8216;strictly platonic&#8217; &#8212; it was no secret that some postings were thinly veiled solicitations for prostitution, despite the site&#8217;s efforts to fight overt solicitations for money.&#8221;</p>
<p>The bill, titled, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/hrpt572/CRPT-115hrpt572-pt1.pdf">states</a>:</p>
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<p>&#8230; websites that promote and facilitate prostitution have been reckless in allowing the sale of sex trafficking victims and have done nothing to prevent the trafficking of children and victims of force, fraud, and coercion &#8230; whoever uses or operates a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or attempts to do so with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both. &#8230; Whoever uses or operates a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person and promotes or facilitates the prostitution of 5 or more persons or acts in reckless disregard of the fact that such conduct contributed to sex trafficking, in violation of 1591(a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 25 years, or both.</p>
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<p>Anyone clicking on the personals section of Craigslist will now receive a message redirecting them to a short statement which reads in part, &#8220;Congress just passed <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865">HR 1865, &#8220;FOSTA&#8221;</a>, seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully. Any tool or service can be misused. We can&#8217;t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the Times, some people have already attempted to circumvent the new policy by visiting the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/fashion/modern-love-a-craigslist-missed-connection-lure.html">&#8220;missed connections&#8221; section</a>.</p>
<p>Lauren Hersh, the national director for World Without Exploitation, enthused about the bill. &#8220;It really provides both survivors and folks in law enforcement with the tools to hold websites that are knowingly facilitating trafficking accountable,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>All too predictably, a representative of the ACLU protested the bill on behalf of sex workers, writing:</p>
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<p>FOSTA threatens the lives and safety of sex workers &#8212; people who are <a href="https://www.aclusocal.org/en/news/sex-work-should-be-decriminalized">disproportionately</a> LGBTQ and people of color. The legislation does this through a dangerously broad definition of &#8220;promotion of prostitution,&#8221; which is not limited to trafficking and could sweep in any trading of sex for money or other goods. The bill also creates a new, vaguely defined federal crime for the facilitation of prostitution, which could result in a prison sentence of up to 10 years. FOSTA&#8217;s definition of &#8220;facilitation&#8221; is so open to interpretation that it could include critical harm reduction and anti-violence tactics that sex workers depend on to survive.</p>
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<p>Freedom Network USA echoed, &#8220;Consensual commercial sex workers use harm reduction tools such as online forums to screen clients, avoid high risk activities, share resources, and protect each other.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hersh knew better, saying, &#8220;We work with survivors, many of whom have been exploited on these websites, and so we are seeing firsthand the extraordinary harm that&#8217;s happening to many women and children.&#8221;</p>


GOOD: Craigslist Removes ‘Personals’ Section After Congress Passes Sex Trafficking Bill

Congress

<p>At a State Department ceremony on Tuesday, Trump administration officials will publicly declare China to be among the worst offenders in the world when it comes to human trafficking. That will place China in the notorious &#8220;Tier 3&#8221; category alongside longtime offenders Syria, North Korea, and Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-sources-us-china-worst-human-trafficking-48286396">ABC News</a>, &#8220;Tier 3&#8221; ranking &#8220;applies to countries failing to meet minimum standards to prevent human trafficking or making significant improvement efforts. Other countries that have recently been on that list include Sudan, Iran and Haiti.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Countries placed in Tier 3 can be penalized with sanctions, including the withholding of non-humanitarian aid and assistance that could affect agreements with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank,&#8221; adds ABC. &#8220;Officials from countries designated in that tier can be barred from participating in U.S. government educational and cultural exchange programs.&#8221;</p>
<p>First daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump will join Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in calling out China&#8217;s egregious human rights record at Tuesday&#8217;s ceremony, unveiling the annual Trafficking in Persons Report to Congress.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s time to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndTrafficking?src=hash">#EndTrafficking</a> &#8211; Honored to join the Department of State for the release of the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report tomorrow. <a href="https://t.co/Y6EWnaSs1d">https://t.co/Y6EWnaSs1d</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/879408197039247361">June 26, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The announcement comes as the Trump administration works to pull China away from North Korea and cement a more robust region-wide effort to curb Kim Jong Un&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.</p>
<p>China has pushed back against accusations of human rights violations in the past and it will likely do so, rather aggressively, after Tuesday&#8217;s announcement, which will mark the first time that the Trump administration has issued an official public response to China&#8217;s hostile behavior at home and abroad.</p>


GOOD TRUMP: State Department Set To RIP China For Human Rights Abuses

Trump Administration

<div>Donald Trump became president on Jan. 20. And in one short month, there were more than 1,500 arrests for sex crimes ranging from trafficking to pedophilia. </div>
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<div>Big deal? You bet. In all of 2014, there were fewer than 400 sex trafficking-related arrests, according to FBI crime statistics.</div>
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<div>Liz Crokin at TownHall.com has put together a <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/lizcrokin/2017/02/25/why-the-msm-is-ignoring-trumps-sex-trafficking-busts-n2290379">great piece</a> on the push by the Trump administration to crack down on sex crimes. And she notes that while &#8220;this should be one of the biggest stories in the national news&#8230; the mainstream media has barely, if at all, covered any of these mass pedophile arrests. This begs the question &#8211; why?&#8221;</div>
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<div>Of course, the answer is twofold: One, it would take away from the daily meme that Trump is owned by the Russians; and two, it would show that the president really meant what he said when he vowed to come to Washington and &#8220;drain the swamp.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Plus, the surge in arrests shows that Trump is already getting a lot done, even in fewer than 50 days in office.</div>
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<div>Trump had made sex trafficking a key issue, and his daughter, Ivanka, also wants to crack down on pedophiles and pimps. In 2012, Trump tweeted, &#8220;Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts. Too many incidents &#8211; fast trial, death penalty.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Crokin points out that Trump on Feb. 23 called sex trafficking a &#8220;dire problem.&#8221;</div>
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<div>&#8220;Dedicated men and women across the federal government have focused on this for some time, as you know.  A lot of you have been dealing with the federal government and it&#8217;s been much more focused over the last four weeks &#8212; I can tell you that,&#8221; he said at a &#8220;Listening Session on Domestic and International Human Trafficking.&#8221;</div>
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<div>&#8220;I&#8217;ll direct the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies that have a role in preventing human trafficking to take a hard look at the resources and personnel that they&#8217;re currently devoting to this fight.  Now, they are devoting a lot, but we&#8217;re going to be devoting more,&#8221; the president said.</div>
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<div>Crokin lists a slew of arrests as Trump pushes to break up sex rings. </div>
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<div>&#8220;As the MSM has ignored these historical arrests, they have zeroed in on casting conservative icon Milo Yiannopoulos as a monster. They claim he supports pedophilia based on comments he made in a video years ago,&#8221; she writes.</div>
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<div>Milo told this column that once one realizes the MSM &#8220;cares nothing for real victims and only wants its ideological enemies destroyed, this behavior becomes intelligible. Journalists don&#8217;t care about children. They care about damaging their political enemies.&#8221; Milo is absolutely right. This is why we&#8217;ve heard nothing from the MSM about the mass sex trafficking arrests and this will continue unless a conservative can be targeted.</div>
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<div>The good news is that we have a president who genuinely does care about children and he&#8217;s vowed to make solving the human trafficking epidemic a priority. The recent pedophile arrests are just the tip of the iceberg and, whether Tapper and his ilk in the MSM like it or not, this story will eventually get so big that they will be forced to cover this horrific epidemic that has plagued our country for too damn long.</div>
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