Republicans always love. Costs no money, it makes money. It gives tools to the irs to go after the traffickers and to put them in jail and to fine them and take those fines and put them into building beds for those young people who have been victimmed, victimized and abused. We dont want to believe that it even happens in our own country, that its trafficked into our country, and the numbers are staggering, about those trafficked into our country but it happens domestically too. Often times foster care children are trafficked. They are trafficked, and when they come to you and tell you their stories you dont want to believe them that no one helped them. Their teachers, Guidance Counselors when they showed them them their bruises and they were advertised in books to be a child prostitute. So the crime is out there. We need to really work hard together to stop it. I became involved in 2000 when there was a constituent of mine in queens called big apple tours. Norman babarash and he would
Out there. [laughter] the debate practice. And he was so good i got up and left the room. I used to get so frustrated with him. It is great. Campaigns are great. Tell us now what you said late in the evening. [laughter] i love you. Thank you so much for being here and and i know you are under a time constraints this morning. Your work on this issue has been remarkable. You are not in this because it is politically expedient but because you believe it. I am grateful you join us today. Let me know when you have to leave. Thank you for being here. First of all specifically talked to us about just what is going on on capitol hill , where you think we we will go with this issue this year, what we will be done and how we can help you. Thank you. This is about not only helping us with legislation in congress but the Mccain Foundation internationally. We all no we love the internet but it has been used by perpetrators and ways we did not imagine. Thank you melissa, as well. Our work is not don
Get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States. The days of boys being boys is going to be over in the United States. They are going to be treated like criminals and b
Because of our location and because of our demographics. We have been working on this issue for a long time, trying to get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States.
And so their are things you can do to shift the culture to show who the real perpetrators are sent to the victims are. And i want to commend cindy for the work she is doing to bring the super bowl here and working with the nfl. But we no, it is one of the biggest events in the country. Perpetrators gravitate to these kind of things. That is Something Else to keep an eye on. We just stumbled upon an advertisement for models. I talked to the fbi yesterday, and they got them it was amazing. We are making headway. One of my favorite topics, backpage. Com. It was just purchased by an overseas company. I did not no that. But for exactly what we talked about, the ability to go offshore. I would like to hear about your opinion, organizations like that. A lot of this is trying to figure out ways, our First Amendment rights. You run into legitimate issues. The key is to try to figure out when things are criminal and to try to get this out there. We want to make it easier to get the information t