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It’s the seedy side of the Super Bowl. While thousands of fans flock to whichever city each Super Bowl is held, so do sex traffickers. The problem of sex trafficking is already huge in Texas. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The state may account for 25% of all human trafficking victims, with thousands women and children trafficked in and through the state each year. Not all of them are forced into sex slavery. Some are forced into other work. But Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the problem is big- and getting worse. He’s convened a Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force which is now focusing its efforts on making sure Super Bowl 2011 in Arlington doesn’t signal open season for sex trafficking.
A pretty eye opening statistic, if you ask me.
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#1 by Rod on November 18, 2010 – 9:04 am
It is a border problem, Joel. You dont bring that up cuz you dont live in a border state, or a state with ever possibly hosting a Super Bowl.
#2 by Joel on November 18, 2010 – 9:07 am
Excuses, Rodney.
#3 by Rod on November 18, 2010 – 9:35 am
Yes excuses….let’s forget the facts. Oh I forgot, you are a progressive….
In one of the documents you linked to, it even said its because TX is a border state.
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● Texas and the Southwest border continue to serve as the biggest point of illegal entry into the U.S., largely because traffickers are able to get aliens across without documents . The major points of entry into the United States are located in southern (Houston) and central Texas, Southern California, Tucson, Arizona, and areas of New Mexico. While the Southwest border is often used as the main portal into the United States, the emerging ports of entry in the region include Atlanta, Houston, Orlando and Washington D.C.
● Like many other states, Texas has and continues to experience incidents of human trafficking in forms of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Three main factors contribute to trafficking in Texas and Houston: proximity, demographics, large migrant labor force. Houston’s proximity to the Mexican border and I-10, along with its port, make it a popular point of entry for international trafficking.”
There you have it, the objective facts that you provided, prove you wrong!
#4 by Rod on November 18, 2010 – 9:52 am
I stand corrected. Chad is part of the Fort Worth Human Trafficking Task Force. Its more than the “border” issue.
#5 by Joel on November 18, 2010 – 10:07 am
I think it as to be an ‘us’ issue, before we can start to tackle it. Let’s be honest – if there wasn’t a ‘market’ for this, then there wouldn’t be product.