"Obama makes joke at the expense of murder, kidnap & rape victims!"

[WhiskeyGirl]

See video here -

http://www.thefoxnation.com/barack-obama/2010/05/09/az-gov-scorches-obama

http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/05/08/arizona-gov-to-obama-no-one-in-arizona-is-laughing-about-illegal-immigration/

It's not just about drugs, murder, kidnap & rape victims.  It's about trafficking in human slavery.

Washington should have secured the border decades ago.

jmho

[WhiskeyGirl]

Arizona Governor Signs Human Trafficking Bill1
March 2005

Gov. Janet Napolitano on Monday signed a bill targeting "coyotes" and human traffickers who recruit and coerce immigrants into prostitution or forced labor.

Senate Bill 1372 is touted as a significant step in the fight against "coyotes" who have made Arizona a preferred border crossing where immigrants are often left to die in the desert or end up trapped inside temporary homes known as drop houses without food or water and are occasionally beaten up.

It is the first major bill signed by Napolitano this session.

The law gives local authorities the power to prosecute those who smuggle people across the Arizona border, which has emerged as a major transportation route for illegal immigration. It also applies to the human traffickers who transport legal or illegal immigrants to coerce them into labor or prostitution.

It makes human smuggling a Class 4 felony crime punishable by up to three years in prison. It provides stiffer penalties against those who recruit, entice or force a person into prostitution.

more here - http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/76

The rest of us are being sold into bondage to Wall Street.  Endless bailout by the Obama administration and the belief that we need more people to grow our economy.

How do you grow the economy when more and more are on welfare?

Maybe grow the drug addiction economy?  While one hand is putting tobacco farmers out of business, the other is growing the importation of drugs grown elsewhere.

Go figure!

jmho

[WhiskeyGirl]

Human trafficking targeted by ICE agents in Arizona
U.S. Attorney Burke calls on public to help officials battle against crime

by Daniel González - Feb. 2, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

Human trafficking remains a major problem in Arizona, but the crime remains hidden because victims are often too afraid to contact law-enforcement officials, U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke said Monday.

Burke called on the public to help law-enforcement officials identify victims as part of a national effort to combat human trafficking.

Burke described the crime as a modern form of slavery that involves holding someone to work for little or no money, often as prostitutes in the sex trade or as laborers in the restaurant and construction industry.

"It occurs largely in the shadows," Burke said at a news conference at Phoenix City Hall. He was joined by several federal and local officials, including Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Matthew Allen, the special agent in charge of investigations for the Arizona office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Human trafficking should not be confused with the much more well-known crime of human smuggling, which involves paying criminal organizations to help immigrants sneak into the United States illegally, Allen said.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/02/20100202humantrafficking.html#ixzz0nWgVctd7

How different would our history be if someone in America had just said no to importing slaves from Africa?   

[WhiskeyGirl]

Human trafficking's profits spur horrors
Vicious organizations move thousands of immigrants through Valley every day


In the world of human smuggling, metro Phoenix has emerged as an enormous staging area where illegal immigrants are held hostage in apartments, motel rooms or rental homes until relatives pay their fees.

State investigators say it is a $2 billion-a-year, black-market business that drives illegal immigration, spreading corruption and violence through the Valley.

On any given day in the Valley, agents say, thousands of undocumented immigrants are stuffed into drophouses as "coyotes" collect the cash, arrange for transportation and fend off other smugglers who would steal migrant clients for ransom.

The city is ideal for drop- houses because it's close to the Mexican line yet far enough so there is virtually no Border Patrol enforcement. Valley freeways provide nationwide access. And large Hispanic neighborhoods offer cover for immigrants and smugglers.

"We are supporting an army of coyotes - an army of greedy, amoral, young, Mexican males," said Cameron "Kip" Holmes, chief counsel with the Arizona Attorney General's Financial Remedies Section. "They've become a subculture unto themselves: extremely violent, extremely dangerous, all manner of bad behavior."

Money-transfer clerks are supposed to verify IDs and follow financial disclosure laws. But under-the-table payoffs are commonplace. During one investigation, investigators set up a phony wire-transfer shop and had coyotes streaming in to collect their illicit fees. In another probe, undercover operatives acting as smugglers paid clerks to violate financial reporting laws.

"When we were doing Western Union stings, we never had a bribe turned down," Holmes said. "The employees told us, 'We pay our rent and car loans out of bribes. The wages are spending money.' So, in effect, they're working for coyotes."

more here - http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0723drophouse-main2.html

I wonder how many criminals will pay Obama's $500 fine and take advantage of amnesty?

[WhiskeyGirl]

“Rape Trees” Frame Arizona-Mexico Border: Grim Reminders of Human Trafficking

(ChattahBox)–A recent report from the Cronkite News Service, a student-run news service of Arizona State University, shed the national spotlight on a new immigration problem plaguing the desert border towns of Arizona: so called “rape trees,” trees on the U.S. side of the border littered with women’s undergarments. Mexican drug cartel members and the coyotes, who smuggle immigrants across the border, are believed to rape the women as soon as they enter U.S. territory to instill fear, intimidate and control them. When the coyote-rapists are finished, they hang the women’s panties from the trees as trophies to mark their brutal conquests.

These “rape trees” are becoming more common along the Arizona border counties of Pima and Cochise, as coyotes and drug cartel members find human trafficking more lucrative than drug smuggling. With the shrinking U.S. economy and high un-employment rate, fewer and fewer Mexican immigrants are crossing the borders for work. As the Mexican authorities push back against the drug cartels, it’s getting harder to smuggle drugs across the border. The result is the increased smuggling of young women, who are immediately forced into prostitution and slavery.

Arizona house members, Sen. Jonathan Paton and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema recently co-sponsored a bill addressing the increasing sex trafficking problems in their state, seeking to make the crime of human trafficking smuggling, a felony...

The rest of the story here - http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/03/15/%E2%80%9Crape-trees%E2%80%9D-frame-arizona-mexico-border-grim-reminders-of-human-trafficking/