GOP brings attention to victims of sex, labor trafficking

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CBS News

By REENA FLORES

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is urging Congress to tackle the "unimaginable pain" that victims of sex and labor trafficking have suffered.

"Too often we hear that this sort of thing just 'doesn't happen where I live,'" Grassley said in the weekly GOP address. "The cruel truth is that trafficking is found in all 50 states."

"Shoving this horrific activity into the shadows only denies opportunity for a young girl or boy who deserves much better," Grassley continued in the video.

And that's why the Iowa lawmaker, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, is backing legislation to prevent trafficking crimes -- a bill titled the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, which passed unanimously out of committee.

FULL story at link. Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/gop-pass-anti-trafficking-legislation



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-brings-attention-to-victims-of-sex-labor-trafficking/

[Thor_MN]

1. I can only guess lack of sleep or broken clocks.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. This is the FIRST TIME I have heard of any issue from them that's not holy, Amurkin,

blah blah money, taxes. What's behind this? There's gotta be a gimmick. They CARE????

[daleanime]

3. Sadly, I simply don't trust this.....

wondering how he's going to take that issue and attack women's rights with it.



It would be nice if I was wrong.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Agree with other posters EXCEPT this speculation -

"sex and [font size="5"]labor trafficking[/font]". I.e., possibly a hidden reference to "illegal immigrants", where I have seen many articles about Mexican and Central American immigrants illegally brought into the U.S. by nefarious farmers via promises of work, and then held against their will (and often "enslaved" without pay), with the threat to turn them in for deportation.

I can imagine this bill being amended to death in order to focus on and provide mega-resources to the one ("labor" by emphasising "border security", etc, without any penalty to the industries that carry this out despite usage of the term "trafficking&quot and essentially ignoring the other ("sex trafficking", since to the GOP, "it's the victim's fault&quot . Also believe the amendments would try to force upending of President Obama's EOs & Signing statements that deal with the current immigrant population. And if Democrats balk, the GOP will then turn around and point the finger at Democrats for supporting "trafficking of illegals".

[jwirr]

5. Yes, he is from Iowa - Steve Kings playground. This is not what we think it is but Democratic

congress persons are going to have a hard time voting against it with a name like that. Remember when the Rs in the bush administration called bills by terrible names?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. And with Harkin gone and Ernst in

it's guaranteed to be amended up the wazoo to basically be honeypot legislation for the M$M to magnify GOP talking points, fabricate the legislation's intent, and entrap the Democratic Party.

[paleotn]

9. Very good points. (nt)

[Android3.14]

7. I distrust this as well

There's something nasty hidden here.

[paleotn]

8. broken clock moment...

...but really, isn't this just unregulated, free market commerce? I thought they like that kind of stuff? Ann would certainly approve.

Even if they're sincere, I'd bet dollars to donuts they'll try to pin the blame for human trafficking on Obama. Just wait and see.

[Iliyah]

10. There is an evil angel to it and its probably has something ugly to do with immigration.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. Meanwhile, in South Dakota...South Dakota House committee ends Jolene's Law...

..."SIOUX FALLS - People battling against child sexual abuse suffered a setback Wednesday.

After passing in the senate, a house committee denied funding to support their mission, but they're not giving up the fight.

KSFY News spoke with the woman whose name Senate Bill 71 carried, Jolene Loetscher."

http://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/South-Dakota-House-committee-ends-Jolenes-Law-295112391.html

And after the outcry...

"Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Friday that the state Department of Health recently came across extra grant money. That money will be used to fund the Jolene's Law Task Force."

http://www.kdlt.com/news/local-news/Jolene-s-Law-Task-Force-Saved/31652830

The amount of funds asked for so as to keep the Jolene's Law Task Force: $21,000

[adieu]

12. Now, they're going after sex trafficking?

After what they did to grant the Marianas Islands a special immunity to allow them to be considered a "US" company (so things made there can be labeled, "MADE IN THE USA&quot while not having to comply with US laws, so that women were imprisoned there to be prostitutes and slave-workers.

Those laws were drafted and passed by the GOP directly.

Disgusting.

[petronius]

13. Here's a link to the bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/178/text (make sure to click the link for the HTML or PDF version).

[Kelvin Mace]

14. Step #1 - remove David Vitter from the senate

And prosecute him.