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President Trump Fights Sex Trafficking
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St. Irenaeus Church And Vanguard University Team Up To Fight Child Sex Trafficking By: Constantine Adams Saint Irenaeus Catholic Church in The City Of Cypress teamed up with Vanguard Christian University to partake in a very important presentation to show the effects of child human sex trafficking on our modern day society, and how each citizen can step up in our own personal way to prevent this tragedy from further deteriorating the very fabric of our great nation. Vanguard Christian University sent their task force called, “Live 2 Free” to provide an informative seminar to help engage Orange County in fighting against the horrors, and heinous crimes of child sex trafficking, and slave labor trafficking as well. Both child human sex trafficking, and slave labor trafficking is a worldwide epidemic that effects all races, creeds, and cultures. It unfortunately also affects both women, and men, young, and old. It is a crime spree that affects its many victims, and reflects many diverse faces. No one is immune to this dark occurrence that has gained more attention in the media as of late. Child sex trafficking, and slave labor trafficking, is a $150 billion dollar industry that ranks in these types of financial figures every year. These types of crimes against humanity mostly take place in “third world countries,” where there are less government regulations, laws, and security. There are also less chances for educational, or sociological advancements. Sometimes, the victim’s very own government are in on the injustice, and enforce a system of slavery, rape culture, and oppression, like in Muslim, or Communist countries like Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, North Korea, China, Cuba, or Russia. The regions of the world that share mostly in this type of societal problem are The Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Slavic countries that used to be part of Communist Russia,(or the U.S.S.R.), and Communist Asian countries. From forcing small children to help grow, and cultivate drugs in the cartel controlled fields of South, and Central America, to forcing children to be child soldiers in the plains of Africa, to forcing children to become Muslim terrorists in the Middle East, or forcing young children to walk their local “red light district in Russia,” the vicious cycle is despicable. The statistics presented to us by the “Live 2 Free,” Task Force are just as appalling. When it comes to sex trafficking, 94% of the victims are female. 41% are children, and 75% are American Citizens. The other 88% are minorities. “It is not only in foreign countries overseas,” states Janet Bica, who is one of the lead executives of Saint Irenaeus Catholic Church’s new Anti-Sex Trafficking Task Force for the Cypress Region. “It is here in America too. Our local law enforcement here in the Orange County District has developed a cutting edge Anti-Sex Trafficking Task Force of its own, to combat these types of crimes in our cities; especially around what we call, “The Blade.” This particular area titled by law enforcement, and anti-sex trafficking freedom fighters called “The Blade,” is based around very notable sex worker, and labor exploitation zones around Orange County like Beach Boulevard, Down Town Santa Ana, Fullerton, Eastside Buena Park, and the Anaheim Hotels around Disneyland. “Many of these criminals, and pimps that are exploiting women, and small children are getting much more precise, and sophisticated,” explains Bica. “They are covering their tracks, and are being much more secretive about their activities by going online. Recently the Department Of Homeland Security has managed to shut down websites like Backpage, Redbook, and some other features on Craigslist. Still, for every one major dark web internet site that we shut down, another five more immediately replace it. This is why we can’t stop fighting.” When asked about what more can the government, and law enforcement do to stop this catastrophe from continuing to spread within our nation, Bica had the following to say, “the government needs to continue to push new stricter laws to help stop this.” Two weeks ago, our current President Donald J. Trump heeded the call, and valiantly signed the ‘Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act,’ therefore ratifying it, and making it an official part of our nation’s legislation. In an interview with TownHall.com, President Trump further commented on the new law, and the overall effect that it will have on combating both human sex trafficking, and illegal labor trafficking occurrences. "Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation. It has no place in our world. You'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. And I've heard statistics where trafficking in the world is more now than it ever has been ever in the history of the world." Many American citizens may wonder, along with President Trump of how these types of crimes can still exist in a First World Society like that of the United States even with former President’s implementing questionable unconstitutional laws, and what many call invasion of privacy beacons like George W. Bush’s ‘Patriot Act,’ or Barak Hussain Obama, and Dianne Feinstein’s, ‘Operation PRISM, and Operation CISA.’ With these major acts of government overreach of its own American citizens, and each one of us being under constant 24 hour surveillance at all times, how is it that these pimps, and predators, can still get away with such crimes while still flying under the radar? President Trump also is skeptical, and asks that same types of questions, and went on to add the following, "And you wouldn't believe that with, you know, modern-day everything. But they use modern-day better than law enforcement can use modern-day, whether it's the Internet or anything else. And you wouldn't believe that. But trafficking, it's probably worse today than at any time in history." Still, there is some good news pertaining to President Trump’s new Law that will add some proper control to the previous chaos of past Presidential Administrations. GovTrack.us, explains that the bill "allows the government to prosecute websites which knowingly help or promote sex trafficking, and also allow users to sue those websites." United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to explain it all with the following, "For far too long, Backpage.com existed as the dominant marketplace for illicit commercial sex, a place where sex traffickers frequently advertised children and adults alike, but this illegality stops right now. The Department of Justice seized Backpage, and it can no longer be used by criminals to promote and facilitate human trafficking. I want to thank everyone who made this important seizure possible: all of our dedicated and committed professionals in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and our U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Arizona, the FBI, our partners with the IRS Criminal Investigation, our Postal Inspectors, and the Texas and California Attorney Generals’ offices. With their help, we have put an end to the violence, abuse, and heartache that has been perpetrated using this site, and we have taken a major step toward keeping women and children across America safe.” United States Congressman Ed Royce and The U.S. House Of Representatives also have passed a total of 11 Bills on to the Senate to await official ratification. Some of which are ‘The Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act,’ or (H.R. 1188) where the legislation strengthens sex offender requirements and enforcements, expands federal registry access to Native American Tribes, and authorizes funding for programs intended to address and deter child exploitation. ‘The Improving support For Missing And Exploited Children Act, ‘or (H.R.1808) where legislators update and streamline The Missing Children’s Assistance Act in order to help the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children strengthen its programs and better serve vulnerable children and their families. And ‘The Protecting Young Victims From Sexual Abuse Act,’ or (H.R. 1973) This Bill requires prompt reporting of suspected abuse, as well as mandatory training and implementation of policies and procedures for sexual abuse allegations at amateur athletic governing bodies. This particular Bill is implemented to hold school and sports leagues accountable for covering up, or hiding child molestation occurrences like that of Michigan State University and Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar, or Penn State University’s Jerry Sandusky, and Joe Paterno’s football camp fiasco. Jasmine French, who is the Live 2 Free Task Force’s Senior President, states strongly that everyday citizens can, and should boycott goods, stores, and products that harm, exploit, or wrongly use children. Whether if it is a situation where young workers are being used in sweatshops to make discounted goods or clothes, or if it is just a corporation that exploits children sexually, citizens need to be doing research into where their household products are coming from, and how they are manufactured. Also paying attention to who exactly are certain companies are affiliated with, sponsored by, or what kind of organizations that these entities donate to also comes into play. “We have reports of 40.5 million sex slaves, and labor slaves all over the world,” says French. “It has always been a problem, and we need to go after the perpetrators who use forced fraud techniques, and cohersion to target young victims. People also really need to pay attention as to where their food, jewelry, and clothing are coming from. We learn a lot, and have seen a lot in the field. This is not just a problem in third world countries anymore. It is right here in America. Our port states, and water front states are the worst(New York, California, Florida). This is where foreign sex slaves, and products that were illegally created from child slave workers come pouring in. From the water front states, these child sex slaves, or exploitation manufactured products make their way from state to state. Every state has this problem now. No region is immune.” French blames technology, but most notably social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, with the uptick in the exploitation of young children for either sex slavery, or forced slave labor. “These platforms kill the children’s social skills, and isolates them. They wind up talking to weird strangers that they don’t even know, and then they get coerced into actually making physical contact with these predators.” These platform’s security protocols are also considered by many to be inadequate. French also blames the inadequacy of the orphan, and foster care systems here in America as well. “More needs to be done to protect our youth in the orphan, and foster care system. 75% of social services, or children that age out of the foster, and orphan systems, are the most targeted by predators. Pimps have been most noticeably seen to patrol orphanages for young women that age out of the system, those women wind up getting kidnapped, and forced into prostitution, or forced manual labor.” Both Bica, and French want the public to use the following resources to help combat child sex slavery, and child worker exploitation, in their area. To combat child slave labor violations, Bica and French say to check out the website www.slavoryfootprint.org. This website shows you which products in stores were made with child slave labor, and which stores promote the products. The customer can then boycott the store, or their items. The cell phone app called “Sweat And Toil,” also shares these same features. They also tell citizens to only buy products that have the “Fair Trade,” stamp on them to symbolize that they do not use child slaves to create, or to cultivate the particular product. If a citizen suspects a situation where human sex trafficking is involved, they are advised to contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at (888)373-7888 or the Live 2 Free Task Force at www.live2free.org.
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