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The government has listed an increasing number of social issues as public health problems — from gentrification to higher education. While public health officials are caterwauling about monkeypox, they are strangely silent about the pandemic of human trafficking. This rapidly growing business amasses billions of dollars for the perpetrators and ruins the lives of thousands of our fellow Americans.
In the wake of the revelations about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and their high-end customers, discussion of human trafficking should have been front and center. Instead, to protect these power-broker perverts, the airwaves are silent on the issue. Moreover, in the current Administration’s effort to downplay the immigration crisis at our Southern border, the media have pushed the mute button on the human trafficking aspect of illegal immigration.
The CIA estimates that over 50,000 people are being trafficked into the United States alone every year. Slave-trade activity has been prosecuted in 91 cities across the United States and nearly every state in the nation.
Anyone can be a trafficker – even other children or a child’s own parents. Anyone can be a victim: rich, poor, any race, color, or national origin, but Native Americans are a particular target. Victims are not only turned into sex slaves in massage parlors or pornography; they are found in agriculture, factories, restaurants, hotels, and domestic services.
We will not be silent about this tragedy today.
National Human Trafficking hotline – 1-888-373-7888. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/victim-assistance/national-human-trafficking-hotline.
Malyneath Vong’s family escaped the Cambodian Killing Fields on foot when she was just an infant. They were a shattered family looking for a second chance at life. She found her life’s passion in two things: building businesses, and advocating against exploited women and children.
Ms. Vong served as the Executive Director for Fair Trade Long Beach for two years. In March 2016, she founded the Global Fashion Mission, an international distributor of fair trade goods that gives back towards human trafficking awareness and survivors. Since June 2018, Ms. Vong has served as a core-team leader for the Long Beach Anti-Human Trafficking task force. She has worked in supporting Homeland Security Investigations in providing services to international victims of human trafficking.
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