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Three documents are required a none expire visa, passport, boarder crosser.

Instead they will pay some different coyotes thousands of dollars to bring illegally.

The come here and purchase identities they do not care who lives they are getting ready to destroy.

See our government makes their business to determine to know who is here when they came what is there address who is their employers and so on and so forth.

We not talking about 10,000 we are talking about millions.

What do you think it is very important to answer the door to our census officials?

This is a none stopping conversation for me.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Mon Apr 14, 2008
Some time back approximately 44 people from rural areas in Pakistan, that included some women and children, were lured by offers of good jobs by agents and taken to Iran. There they were literally sold as slaves. Somehow four of them managed to escape and crossed the borders and walked some 700 miles of desert & mountaneous terrain back to their village. The matter came to the attention of a television channel and it brought the whole affair to the attention of the public. The Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan came into action and with the help of the Foreign succeeded in bringing back 23 of the enslaved men, women, & children. Some 16 still remain in slavery in Iran and nobody knows why. One wonders with disgust.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Sat Apr 05, 2008
Transforming consciousness is the Great Work. The State Department staff continues the international partnership effort to stamp out slavery -- every form of it. Americans can be proud of that.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Fri Apr 04, 2008
@ Joe in Tennessee -- I never met anyone who told me that will visit the U.S. ...for sex-tourism.

On the contrary, I know plenty of people who travel to Cuba, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, Burma, Algeria, Syria or Iran etc. with this scope.

Ambassador Mark Lagon shared with us an extremely important and humanitarian DipNote and you attempt to make the conversation just "inside America oriented".

Joe, WHAT'S THE QUESTION OF YOUR POST?

At least, America, makes an effort concerning this huge issue; a Global mission.

Do you know how much it costs and how difficult it is to have a Global Report on anything?

What the other countries do? NOTHING AT ALL!

Please specify your query.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Fri Apr 04, 2008
I'm afraid I missed this part of the posting in recognition of not only this day in American History but for all that is left to do:

American, with help from its allies and the continuous perseverance of the DoS as done one extraordinary job in bringing archaic cultures into the reality of civility and its meaning to all of its citizens. More exposure with actual change has come forth in the last decade then ever before in human history and the DoS is directly responsible for much of it, regardless of who has been in the Executive Office.

Kudos for all personal is often neglected as it seems an expectation; but, I could not imagine the number of people who have been saved through YOUR concerted efforts in this specific problem as well as other undertakings of those less fortunate in attempting to create democracies worldwide.

It is why America is still the standard of humanity worldwide.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Fri Apr 04, 2008
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/03/102103.htm

What do you call it when it persists here in America?

What do you call it when it persists in certain Religious context here in America protected by separation of Church and State?

What do you call it when American single females are known to have been detained in other countries without American reaction?

What do you call it when economic conditions force a male or female to sell themselves out of necessity rather than force?

Is this all not the same?

The owning of any Human being by any other is not legitimate in any context anywhere, including America if democracy is an actuality.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Fri Apr 04, 2008
@ All DipNoters -- I personally suggest that before or after reading the State Department Reports on Trafficking, all of us guys should watch the "Human Trafficking" movie with Donald Sutherland and Mira Sorvino.

Before watching the movie, I was just reading the State Department Trafficking in Persons Reports (http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/) in a way ordinary readers do. Just theoretical.

After the movie, I understood the real importance and the Global effort of these State Department's Reports.

Now, I read them with my soul.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/human_trafficking_basics/ Wed Apr 02, 2008