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Molon Labe's avatar

"Despite the rightwing narrative that thousands of child traffickers routinely cross the border..."

Human trafficking and child exploitation should be something we can all stand together against. Suggesting its a "rightwing narrative" when its well documented and covered by non-rightwing organizations only servers to perpetuate the problem.

Two things can be true at the same time. You can be against Trump's family separation and also recognize the exploitation migrants have suffered since forever.

"And smuggled children are certainly at risk for human trafficking, the United Nations' children's agency UNICEF and World Without Exploitation said in a joint statement.

"Smugglers also take advantage of children and their families by extorting them with threats and false promises," they said."

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07...

"The links between street prostitution and both domestic and international trafficking have beenconfirmed by dozens of studies,41 with the market forces of prostitution driving demand for human trafficking of women and girls.42 Estimates of the overall magnitude of human trafficking into and within the United States are the subject of debate and are derived from data and methods with substantial limitations (e.g., Clawson et al., 2006), but most researchers agree that a substantial portion of trafficking is for the purpose of commercial sex..."

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffi...

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Ethereal Fairy Natalie's avatar

Don't forget the Japanese internment camps, which, we never learned about in school.

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