Did you know that on December 29, 2017 President Trump declared January 2018 National Slavery and Human Traffic Prevention Month? No of course you didn’t. That’s just the sort of positive news that the mainstreams suppress. Or simply ignore. Anyway, now that the month is half over it’s nice to know…

During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we recommit ourselves to eradicating the evil of enslavement. Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation. It has no place in our world. This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality. We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.

It rarely grabs the attention of the mainstreams, but the vile practice of human enslavement has never gone away; it’s just gone underground. In fact according to this WND article, in Jan. 18, 2010 Time magazine reported: “Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history.”
 
This video from the UK Guardian illustrates the prevalence of this horrid crime ~
 

 
And the United States is far from immune. As the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported in November, police in California are calling human trafficking “the new crack cocaine” ~

The FBI has identified the San Francisco Bay Area, including Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, as one of the three highest-intensity child sex trafficking regions in the country […]

 
Deborah Pembrook, who teaches others about the problem through the Coalition to End Human Trafficking in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, said trafficking is happening in Santa Cruz County. About 30 percent of the traffickers are women, Pembrook said. Traffickers can be anyone, a trusted family friend to gang members immersed in organized crime. The trafficked may appear to be the criminal, such as a drug dealer. And many trafficking victims are so traumatized by the abnormal lifestyle, they struggle to find a way out and relapse, Pembrook said.
 
Pembrook said, of the 25 forms of human trafficking observed by the Polaris Project, an initiative that defines human trafficking as a form of slavery and a “multibillion dollar criminal industry,” most have been observed in Santa Cruz County. Those include escort services, illicit massage, strip clubs and cantinas, pornography and covert crimes disguised by traveling sales, commercial cleaning services and restaurant work. She said human trafficking has not been observed locally in manufacturing industries or people trafficked from recreational areas.
 
Many victims of human trafficking are branded like animals. Their tattoos, which Pembrook showed on a projector screen, may be phrases stating they belong to someone. Detective Laurel Schonfield, who works human trafficking and other cases, said one of the photos depicting a cheetah tattoo was taken in a case that has linked tips of trafficking from Santa Cruz County to Florida. She said the crimes have no boundaries.

I don’t know what the Left is doing to commemorate MLK Day (greivance-mongering? re-opening old wounds?) but the Trump administration is calling attention to the tragedy of human trafficking and implementing pro-active measures to help put an end to evil practice ~
 

• Pres. Trump signed an Executive Order (February 2017) to dismantle transnational criminal organizations, including those that perpetuate the crime of human trafficking.
• An Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has enhanced collaboration with other nations, businesses, civil society organizations, and survivors of human trafficking.
• The Department of Health and Human Services has established a new national training and technical assistance center to strengthen our healthcare industry’s anti-trafficking response.
• The Department of State has contributed $25 million to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, because of the critical need for cross-nation collaborative action to counter human trafficking.
• The Department of Labor has released an innovative, business-focused mobile app that supports private-sector efforts to eradicate forced labor from global supply chains.
• Earlier this month Trump signed into law S. 1536, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and S. 1532, the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act which will ~

… keep those who commit trafficking offenses from operating commercial vehicles, improve anti-human trafficking coordination within Federal agencies and across State and local governments, and improve efforts to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking.

 
Wouldn’t it be nice if the network news would get around to sharing positive news like this on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and encourage others to fight this sourge? Don’t hold your breath.

 
As an aside, here’s how some on the Left would rather recognize MLK Day ~

Student Newspaper Mocks White People for MLK Day ~ Rice University’s ‘Thresher’ publishes crude ‘satire,’ justifies racism against caucasians…

Guilt-free MLK Day Pass Hey there, white people! We know you have the day off to celebrate someone who managed to beat your system.
 
Don’t despair – for the low price of eternal shame you can spend these 24 hours doing something productive like beating off in a sock and wondering whatever happened to your 8th-grade girlfriend. You’re disgusting.

Never mind though. It’s supposed to be satire. LOL.

 
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Just a thought; maybe these fragile college snowflakes could help provide “safe spaces” for victims of human trafficking? ~ Surreal as is sounds, most college students actually think America invented slavery!

Trafficking in Persons Report 2017 ~ From the State Department

The Fight to End Global Slavery – by E. Benjamin Skinner (fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School)