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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 i ....
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 n ....
So the group homes really become targeted very specifically by pimps. They know where the group homes are and they will go and recruit specifically there, and sometimes theyll get other girls to do that. The other place where girls are recruited are in juvenile Detention Centers where girls recruit each other. So given we know all of this information, we absolutely can prevent this from happening. But we do have to fundamentally change parts of the Child Welfare system in order to do it. Congressman reichert, i want to congratulate you on the passage of your legislation preventing the sex trafficking and strengthening families act. You talked about that legislation. I i wonder if there are any other plans in the committee for expanding on the amazing work you were all able to do. Well, ive moved on from the chairmanship of that committee to the tax committee. So, i so what ....
And full knowledge and moving in a timely fashion to seek to create the programming that will address the need. Okay. And we actually have some other comments from the Council Members . Thank you so much for coming. I just want to make a comment in regards to another population, that often gets overlooked when we are talking about the Disability Community. And that is the veteran population. And so the veterans with disabilities and seeing if you are have it on your radar to connect with other veteran organizations in the city, that are doing some of the same things to insure that veterans with disabilities are receiving the same access to those, highly sought after jobs. I agree, and i was just talking to michael about that, and, the services that we provide, with those Employment Service and benefits are ver ....