On World Trafficking Day, Remember That Slavery In Modern America Is An Immigrant Activity
07/31/2023
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It is World Day Against Trafficking In Persons, and ”trafficking” means slavery and involuntary servitude.

Mark Krikorian notes that you can’t stop this in the US without immigration enforcement:

The CIS.org press release says

Trafficking is the exploitation or enslavement of someone by force, fraud, or coercion, for labor, domestic servitude, or commercial sex. Human trafficking is a lucrative industry and is on the rise in the United States.

Current immigration policies are responsible for the loss of control of the southern border and for lax oversight of guestworker programs, both of which are major contributors to the human trafficking industry in the United States.

Forced labor trafficking is the most common form of trafficking that has a direct nexus to the Southern border crisis. The prospect of almost certain release after crossing the U.S. border illegally has enticed many thousands of migrants to sign up with traffickers, and many end up in debt bondage and exploitative labor situations that are difficult to escape.

It’s true that there’s both farm labor slavery and sex slavery on the Southern Border, see

What’s even more horrifying, in a way, is the legal immigrants (Filipino, Indian, and African) who import slaves to act as domestic servants.

I wrote up many examples of this in 2017, in The Immigrants Who Bring Their Slaves To America, And The Press That Doesn’t Want You To Know.

It was inspired by a story in the Atlantic—the most read of 2017—https://twitter.com/hilmarschmundt/status/943140324259401728?s=20by a Filipino-American whose family had had a Filipino slave live with them for 56 years:

It was written by a man named Alex Tizon, and he arranged to have it published only after his own death, because it’s disgraceful, but the point is that it’s a case of immigrants enslaving other immigrants because it’s part of their culture—as it very much isn’t in America.

And there are many such cases. When they’re discovered and reported in the press, the word "immigrant" will only be used in referring to the victim, of course.

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