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INDUSTRY FOCUS With Ralph C. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
TShe Dark Side of the Border
ecurity at the southern bor- Trump said. “Tape put across their mouths...” der is critical, but let’s not While my thoughts may sound a little talk about illegal immigra- political, the truth is: this is a huge security tion. There is an issue more issue and a gruesome reality.
compelling and serious than “Traffickers don’t go through check- what you’ve been seeing in the headlines re- points; they go through the emptiest spot
cently. The inability to foster and promote security along the border has a profound ef- fect on the illicit trafficking of children and women by criminal cartels.
Believe it when the experts describe the horrors of human slavery and trafficking. But, who are the experts?
Tim Ballard is a former special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, who also spent a year on the southern border as- signed to monitor human slavery and traffick- ing. He is now the CEO of Operation Under- ground Railroad, a nonprofit program with international partners designed to rescue chil- dren from criminal trafficking organizations.
“Nobody out there is defending the vic- tims without a voice,” Ballard said to Sara Carter, a Fox News reporter, during an inter- view on the The Ingram Angle.
A few months ago, President Donald Trump signed the “Trafficking Victims Pro- tection Reauthorization Act,” which takes aim at a $150 billion industry of human slav- ery. It is estimated to effect 30 million people worldwide. That’s right, our porous borders contribute to the human trafficking disaster.
“We’re talking about, in many cases, women and children grabbed, thrown into the backseat of a car, or thrown into a van with no windows, with no—any form of air,” President
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they can find, with no walls, with no fences,” President Trump said.
Maybe Trump is being overly dramatic and maybe he has been watching too many movies, such as Sicario, which is a recent film depicting the horrors of human trafficking.
Ballard says that the President is not be- ing overdramatic. The scenes depicted in the movie do not mirror the violence happening at the border.
“What happens to victims is far worse than what you see in Sicario,” Ballard said.
Carter described an encounter with a vic- tim of child sex trafficking, and the horrors a 14-year-old girl faced.
“I can’t even imagine that anybody would even joke about this,” Carter said.
Let’s rethink the conversation we are hav- ing about border security, security in general and the proposed border wall. I’m not cast- ing a vote one way or another. That is a deci- sion for law makers to address. However, let’s consider the plight of the innocents who are snatched away from a childhood and thrust into a darkness so obscene and wicked the mind cannot fathom its difficulty.
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