WASHINGTON — The small New Jersey towns of Brigantine and Plainfield tout themselves as family friendly places. The two towns also share the infamous distinction of being linked to the worldwide problem of trafficking young girls and women who are forced to work as prostitutes or domestic servants.
“Human trafficking has become a negative suburban phenomenon,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said in a recent interview in his Capitol Hill office.
Smith, vice chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said millions of young girls and women are trafficked each year. He said many of these victims are smuggled into the United States to work in large cities and small hamlets, like Brigantine and Plainfield, two of several New Jersey communities where trafficking victims have been found.
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Oregon again. Bellwether of the Culture of Death. why am I not surprised?
Human trafficking is rampant all over the world. The 20,000 or so we have in the U.S. are nothing compared to the approximately 300,000 in Asia, and hundreds of thousands more in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In fact, Middle Eastern countries are considered “tier 3” countries, which means the government does absolutely nothing to stop the practice, and even takes part. Many of these children are sent from home thinking they will work as domestic servants, when in fact they are raped along the way by traffickers, then forced into prostitution (sometimes as young as the age of 9). It is horrifying stuff, very, very sad.
Perhaps it comes of being a policeman’s child, but this isn’t altogether a surprise to me. You will have figured out by now, I daresay, that Cacciadelia – who, in addition to being affectionate and trusting, is also The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (TM) – goes nowhere, and I mean nowhere, outside the house without a large and protective brother in attendance.
The more immigrants we take in, without time to assimilate properly into American culture, the more of a problem this will become.