Child Trafficking
Still living in the Middle Ages
My last column was about an encounter I had with a young girl frightened that her parents might separate because of their increased fighting. The young family appeared to be financially comfortable and lived in wonderful area. And I do wish that their lives travel down a happy road.
While they’re working out their differences, along with millions of other families. There’s something even more disconcerting, more frightening, and more devastating than the average American family must deal with.
Imagine that little girl being quietly hauled away in an unmarked van, driven to an unknown destination and vanish into a world of hell we don’t want our minds to think about.
It’s one thing for children concerned about the happiness of their parents. And that is very important. It’s something entirely different however when a child comes from another country and doesn’t even have parents, or they were ripped from their parents, or their parents were murdered.
We’ve all seen movies with people in chains at an open auction being sold into slavery. I’m not just talking about the blacks in American history. I’m talking going back to the Roman’s and beyond. Those images are disturbing, and your heart goes out to those poor souls even though it’s a movie. A movie based on fact.
It’s hard to believe, to imagine, to understand that human trafficking, primarily children, is going on under our noses in America in the year 2024. I’m aware, sadly, this is nothing new. But what is new is since Biden opened our southern border, it breathed even more life into an abhorrent trade allowing it to expand beyond anything we could ever conceive.
During Biden’s SOTU “campaign” speech, he spoked about the size of a snicker bar and how they shrunk. He never addressed how he’s indirectly responsible for the rape, deaths and horror hundreds of thousands of children are going through each and every day. He says he understands the loss of a child, and he’s justified, because he rightfully does. But does he understand the pain and suffering of parents in a foreign land, if still alive, having no idea what happened to their children. Or how the cartels don’t regard children as human beings but just another commodity to increase their wealth. And what about the evil criminals on our own streets who move these children around with impunity.
The Biden administration is focusing on how we can kill more babies via abortions, but paying no attention to how many are getting killed who were lucky enough not to be aborted but maybe wish they had.
In June of 2023, 30 children vanished in Cleveland in just two weeks. Think about that. In a major modern American city, in a first world nation, 30 kids vanish in fourteen days.
Expand that out. More than 1,000 reported missing through September of the same year in the entire state of Ohio. One thousands kids! How come that wasn’t part of Biden’s campaign platform?
I knew things were bad, but until I decided to investigate further for this column the nightmare unraveled and the more my stomach knotted. I grew nauseated. Originally, I was thinking it was more a border problem, but it’s an American problem.
We always here stories about kidnappings in Mexico, and it is hell there, but it’s just as bad, if not worse, in the United States of America.
May 24, which I recently learned is National Missing Children’s Day. A day Ronald Reagan proclaimed in 1983. I feel guilty I didn’t even know that. Last May they were remembering that 460,000 children go missing in the United States every year. Nearly a half billion! That’s inconceivable.
While school shootings are traumatic and heart-rending events and don’t merit any less attention, the number of children that disappear are way beyond those awful deaths. The difference is the shootings are an immediate “in your face” tragedy while the vanishing kids are an “out of sight out of mind” consequence.
Government has a way to magically find money when it wants something for itself. Such as Biden’s band of liars discovered another $300 million more military aid for Ukraine when they’ve been telling us there was nothing left to give. Suddenly they found a savings in weapons contracts. Are these savings going to risk our own national security for the welfare of another country thousands of miles away?
Point is, when Washington wants to do something, they will find away. It’s not their money so it doesn’t matter to them. Then why can’t we take that $300 million and use it for our own dire needs. Establish some sort of child protection force. Not a government run organization. Private sector. Or, instead of defunding the police, fund the heck out them with a branch dedicated to preventing half a billion kids from vanishing.
And while our spend thrift government is happy to protect other borders around the world, close ours! For God’s sake, at least try to slow down human trafficking and the abuse against thousands of hapless children a little bit. Geez. What does it take to get our act together?
As powerful an impact that young girl had on me. There are thousands like her who may never see their parents again and destined to live in slavery, hooked on drugs or a life of prostitution. We can do better.
