Immigration Reform

Testimony by Tara Lee Rodas for The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
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Testimony by Tara Lee Rodas for The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement

ByBilly Joe Cain

Editor’s note: We are non-partisan. Children are being hurt. Please, watch, read, learn, and act accordingly. Hearing Date: Wednesday 04/26/2023 – 3:00 PM Hearing Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and…

Briefing on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Countering Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking Hearing
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Briefing on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Countering Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking Hearing

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Executive Summary Mexican Drug Cartels and Fentanyl Supply Chains Fentanyl precursors are transported from China to Mexico, where cartels produce fentanyl in labs and then typically traffic it to the United States through ports of entry at the border. Republicans and Democrats agree that the United States must work with China and Mexico to disrupt these…

'I had nowhere to go': Labor traffickers are taking advantage of the Massachusetts housing crisis
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'I had nowhere to go': Labor traffickers are taking advantage of the Massachusetts housing crisis

ByEyes on Trafficking News

For eight months, Julio worked as a landscaper in Western Massachusetts, hauling rocks, digging ditches and pulling weeds about 70 hours a week, earning less than two dollars an hour. At night, tired and hungry, the Guatemalan immigrant would be driven back to his employer’s suburban home, where he would head down to the basement…

Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to …
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Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to …

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to expand the definition of “human trafficking” to include helping a minor get an abortion. The bill, which was introduced Tuesday, would prohibit “recruiting, harboring, or transporting” a person under the age of 18 to get an abortion or abortion medication, either in Idaho or out of state. It would…

Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to Get an Abortion
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Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to Get an Abortion

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to expand the definition of “human trafficking” to include helping a minor get an abortion. The bill, which was introduced Tuesday, would prohibit “recruiting, …

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month – Calvin University Chimes
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January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month – Calvin University Chimes

ByEyes on Trafficking News

“The problem of human trafficking isn’t somewhere else: It’s part of our whole community, and it’s part of my community,” Rachel VerWys, CEO of Safe Haven Ministries and contributor to West Michigan’s Human Trafficking Coalition, told Chimes. In the last 10 years, research on trafficking has increased, according to Stacia Hoeksema, social work professor, and…

Ryan Sims: Immigrants can solve the growing labor shortage facing North Carolina farms
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Ryan Sims: Immigrants can solve the growing labor shortage facing North Carolina farms

ByEyes on Trafficking News

N.C. Farm Bureau President Shawn Harding recently observed that many of our state’s and country’s economic challenges stem from labor shortages that have largely gone unaddressed, calling on policymakers to “fix our labor issues or at least talk about how we can fix our labor issues.” As a pastor in High Point who has witnessed…

Indictment: Restaurant Owners Smuggled Brazilians for Cheap Labor
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Indictment: Restaurant Owners Smuggled Brazilians for Cheap Labor

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Editor’s note: the term “illegal” should be “undocumented,” as a person cannot be illegal. Being without documentation is a potential red flag of human trafficking, so in each case, these people may be in need of help. The sordid, sophisticated, and profitable business of illegal migration is exposed in the indictments of several people who…

Immigration reform needed for Iowa's workforce, U.S. Sec. of Labor says – YouTube
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Immigration reform needed for Iowa's workforce, U.S. Sec. of Labor says – YouTube

ByEyes on Trafficking News

U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said that Iowa’s workforce shortage could benefit from immigration reform. Transcript  (Editor’s note: these were auto-generated – apologies for errors.) WAS CINDY AXNE, ANY LABOR LEADERS ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS AND THE U.S. LABOR SECRETARY ALL AT THIS EVENT IN DES MOINES. THE LABOR SECRETARY SAID THAT EMPLOYERS NEED IMMIGRANTS. EMPLOYERS…

Opinion | The migrant tragedy in Texas is the result of a broken system – The Washington Post
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Opinion | The migrant tragedy in Texas is the result of a broken system – The Washington Post

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Enrique Acevedo is a Mexican American journalist who works as a correspondent for CBS News and a contributor for “El Tiempo Latino.” On May 14, 2003, a group of 73 migrants was found near Victoria, Texas, locked in a trailer without water, food or air conditioning. Nineteen people lost their lives, including a 5-year-old boy…