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by: Vincent Cavaleri
The business of stealing freedom for profit has never been more lucrative in the United States than it is today. Since taking office in 2021, the Biden administration and its border czar Kamala Harris have given a greenlight to sophisticated transnational syndicates in Mexico to continue with its ceaseless exploitation of migrant women and children.
The drug cartels have been empowered by the current lawlessness at the southern border, and the White House’s capitulation to criminal entry. The Biden administration has made it abundantly clear that it does not wish to stem the flow of illegals pouring into the United States.
Human trafficking represents the most extreme violation of fundamental human rights. Human smugglers and traffickers now enjoy a huge advantage over Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel since Bidden/Harris have virtually decriminalized illegal border crossings. CBP agents are quoted as saying “the cartels now run the border.”
Human trafficking denies individuals their freedom and dignity; and treats them as commodities, rather than human beings. Currently, Mexico ranks third in the word for trafficking women and children, only surpassed by Cambodia and Thailand. Since 2021, the Mexican drug cartels have raked in an estimated 13-billion dollars from human trafficking and smuggling; according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
During Border Czar Harris’s reign; human traffickers have been busier than ever shipping child migrants across America’s southern border virtually unmolested. Border Patrol estimates show that almost 60% of Latin-American children that set out to cross America’s southern border are captured by cartels and enslaved into child sexual exploitation rings.
That number is simply unconscionable.
Those that aren’t trafficked into prostitution or pornography rings are forced into labor under harsh conditions, often with little or no pay. They work in industries like agriculture, construction, or domestic work, where they are targeted for further exploitation.
The absence of border security, in conjunction with nonexistent interior enforcement has made the United States the number one consumer of exploited women and children. Without operational control of the southern border, victims of enslavement will continue to climb exponentially, if democrats control the White House.
According to UNICEF, human trafficking is now the second most profitable illegal activity in the United States, trailing only narcotics; another Biden/Harris economic milestone.
Editorial comments expressed in this column are the sole opinion of the writer.
