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The Grim Reality Of Human Trafficking In South Carolina
Fewer cases, more victims … and a disturbing rise in missing children.
Fewer cases, more victims … and a disturbing rise in missing children.
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Let me get this straight, Alan has a massive task force and a $1.5 million budget and hasn’t done much to “end” human trafficking but if he can get $10 million a year he can end it? Sounds a lot like the drug war where mo money does nothing except grow government.
Same with screwalls where failure is always rewarded with mo money.
Alan is more full of crap than his father Joe “you lie” Wilson.
Human trafficking is a pretty serious issue and having adequate funding helps to lead to major busts, but this is also a program for which there is “never enough” funding. Eventually there’s a steep decline in the amount of additional people saved and a steep increase in the number of friends-of-friends living in half million dollar homes and six figure pick up trucks.
Unfortunately it’s the human condition. Goes for public/private school administration, C-suite empty suits, pastors of megachurches, etc. Politicians just know how to speedrun it.
Jeff, that is exactly what this is! They needed a new crisis-du jour so they can bleed the taxpayers even more and now they have a rebuttal, albeit a manufactured one, whenever anyone says something about prostitution being a victimless crime. Our friends at GovCo are becoming quite creative in creating new industries with which to not only bleed the taxpayer, but make more people into criminals. Like the DUI industry, the CDV industry, the victim advocacy industry, and the war-on-drugs industry; the human trafficking industry will feed the court and prison industries to make sure they can only expand in scope and size, never shrink.
Ain’t government wonderful?!
Let’s be honest here. Most trafficking victims are either black, Hispanic, or poor whites, none of which the GOP cares one iota about. Witness our Governor’s refusal to allow a summer feeding program that would not use one cent of state funds, just federal funds–in lock step, all the GOP Governors also refused the funding. You know how they hate to “expand government” unless it’s to give welfare to billionaires and the rest of the 1%. Then, they are all for corporate welfare. The hypocrisy of the GOP never ends. You know–they are the “anti-crime” party unless it’s to nominate a presidential candidate who has been indicted more times than most of their base can count. And they’re all “Christians” as witnessed by the Texas incident in which the governor’s orders were to obstruct federal border agents from saving a woman and her two children from drowning. Now circle back to my 2nd line here. In the GOP faux-christianity party, only affluent whites count. Trump is not the GOP’s savior, but they sure treat him like one. If these fake Christians actually read their Bibles, they’d realize he’s been a test and they have failed miserably–he’s the literal embodiment of what their (unread) Bibles warn them about. It’s sad to see this nation sinking farther and farther into a Christian theocracy, or what’s worst, Christian Fascism, but that is where the US is heading. Faux “News” warns them about “socialism” but they sure love ’em some fascism.
Why do people like Kristian Kiel pump out so many kids when they lack the wherewithal to feed them? It is not the taxpayers’ job to feed your brood.
From 2012 to 2023, the official population of South Carolina increased by 14 percent. So based on the official numbers, the net increase of trafficking on a per capita basis (which is the best manner to evaluate almost any metric of societal issues) is 5%. HOWEVER, that “official” number doesn’t do a good job of capturing the effects of the inflow of illegal immigration – that is a constantly moving target. Could it be enough to make the net 5% increase in human trafficking such that there has been statistically no meaningful change since 2012? I think it’s certainly possible. The Mexican cartels are probably the largest human trafficking industry in the world – literally a multi-billion dollar industry. Until that issue gets under control (and it probably won’t because no politician has the guts to enforce the letter of the law and engage in the enormous mass deportation needed to stem the tide), southern states allocating a few million dollars isn’t going to do very much. Wilson shouldn’t be thrown under the bus for this – the problem has roots that go far beyond his jurisdiction.