By Jeremy Myers Filed Under Human Trafficking Written on May 3, 2011

Human Trafficking Must Stop

Human Trafficking is a terrible problem around the world today, not just in other countries, but also here in the United States. Some estimate that there are 31 million human trafficking victims every single year.

Human Trafficking Must Stop

My family and I are doing what we can to stop human trafficking, from educating ourselves and raising money for organizations that rescue the women and girls to being on the look out for potential victims. One day, we hope to be personally involved with rescuing and protecting human trafficking victims.

Human Trafficking in the United States is a huge problem. What are you going to do about it?

If this is something you are concerned with too, or just want to begin educating yourself, I occasionally write posts about human trafficking, and will link to them here as part of an ongoing series.

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More people need to know about this vital issue.
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You might want to check out this organization:
http://www.pwgopal.com/hundred.html
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PW is actually coming to Rockwall, TX on May 14 to teach us about his ministry and ways we can help. He is looking for 100 communities to join with him.
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That looks like a great organization. What sort of communities are they looking for?
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They are basically looking for churches or groups of Christians to form safe houses for girls being rescued from human trafficking. They are providing training and help to get started. They just want people who are willing to house a single girl and to meet her physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. This is my understanding at this point. I will know a lot more in a couple weeks.
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Whoa! My wife and I have been praying and looking for something like for a while. I will check it out! Thank you!
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I will let you know what I learn from the training.
http://www.graceground.com/ Sam

Here, near the border with Mexico, human trafficking has many faces, many of them disguises. For some, it is the live-in 24/7 “house-keeper/child care provider/cook” who never earns enough to pay off her employer who brought her to this country. For some it is the “wife” (who matches the previous description” and is also expected to perform “her marital duties”).

For some, it is the Tijuana prostitute whose primary customers come from North of the border. Ride the trolley any afternoon to the border and you will probably see some of her “customers”.

For some it is the group of Hispanics waiting alongside the road for people to pick them up to work for cash. Some of them are here legally. Many are trying to pay off the person who smuggled them into the country and who is providing them subpar housing at above-market prices. When we pick them up and pay them a few dollars for their work and threaten to call immigration when they complain, we too are complicit.

Human trafficking masquerades as meeting our needs at a price we can afford in a tough economy. It is one of those issues most of us would like to pretend does not exist, at least not where we live.

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

That is a great insight into the many faces of human trafficking. Do you mind if I repost your comment as a post?

Up here in New York, while we are much further from the border, we have all those faces also. I work with people who have “employed them” in various ways. It is always interesting to hear their justifications.

http://www.graceground.com/ Sam

Of course you may repost it.

Human trafficking is not a simple issue, is it? While we may not have a “housekeeper” who is really in bondage to us, we love to avail ourselves of consumer goods produced in other countries under working conditions that sometimes are little better than slavery. Maybe the keyboard I’m typing this on was assembled by someone working under such conditions. We don’t really want to know, do we?

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I hate to think how my life my change if I decided to educate myself about where my shoes come from, or how I get my coffee.

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I don’t believe in Human Trafficking and feel as though our law isn’t doing the right procedures to making it stop. But do you believe this create a better life for these refugees? Not as slaves, but the opportunity to live in America? Sam mentions how some people will wait on the side of the road to be picked up. There’s waiting to get away right? I’m not for human trafficking at all…just wondering if these people are just looking for a better way out.

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Well, these are good questions. Certainly, many of them are looking for a way out. But it is our responsibility to help them find it, rather than take advantage of them and treat them as slaves, or give them low wages. We should definitely be helping others.

marissa

hi there, i am involved in promoting an anti-human trafficking event at Sacramento City College…would you be opposed to us using the above graphics w/statistic as a poster for helping us to promote on campus? it would be greatly appreciated and we’re trying our best as a student body to educated and increase awareness about this sickening epidemic!

thanks and looking forward to hearing from you.

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Marissa,
I am thrilled to hear that you are doing this event. To be honest, the graphic is not mine. I got it from Google Images. The original creator of the image is http://www.sawso.org, but I cannot find the image on their site any longer.

Keep doing everything you can to raise awareness!

joshua skilling

i can please use the pic with the girls in the jar for educational purposes only? i am doing a speech in my class that would like use it for. please email me back at eagleman324@yahoo.com