How Mass Illegal Migration Drives Sex Trafficking and Prostitution
December 04, 2024
Although you wouldn’t know it from the self-styled humanitarians who claim to care about the well-being of migrants, the mass illegal migration crisis they champion exacerbates more than a few harmful social pathologies. Among these are sex trafficking and prostitution which occur both along the illegal migration routes and at the final destinations in the U.S.
The example of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is illustrative. Millions of Venezuelans migrated to neighboring countries in South America, thus voting with their feet against the socialist Chavez-Maduro regime and the intense poverty it has generated. Tren de Aragua members were part of this outflow, and they brought with them women, usually from very poor backgrounds, whom they forced or otherwise encouraged to engage in prostitution. In Peru’s capital of Lima, Tren de Aragua began to violently muscle in on the local prostitution business, killing local prostitutes while bringing in women from Venezuela. Due to Biden-Harris open-borders policies, Tren de Aragua has expanded its criminal empire to the U.S., wreaking real havoc throughout the country and claiming American victims.
The Biden-Harris administration sent the message that migrants who could make it to the U.S. border would get to stay. This policy drew migrants northward through Panama’s Darien Gap. FAIR’s recent report on the Darien Gap has demonstrated the disturbing and heart-breaking levels of sexual violence against migrant women, including young girls, by criminals and human smugglers who prey upon them. These findings are supported by the Assessment Capacities Project, which points out, “[w]omen are mainly exposed to sexual violence, including the risk of trafficking, prostitution, or sexual abuse, inside the jungle” during the great illegal migration through the Darien Gap.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/12/04/how-mass-illegal-migration-drives-sex-trafficking-and-prostitution
