But they mostly focus on international trade. Our own government offers programs and funding for foreign victims of trafficking but none for domestic. They seem unwilling to recognize that the majority of these victims are not foreigners, but the girls next door. Is it just easier to imagine that they are from other countries and that it can’t happen here to our own? A photo of a sad girl from Mexico sold across the border for sex makes for good fundraising, but few seem to care “about the black girl from the slums of Dallas or the white girl from the wrong side of the tracks.” It is a hidden crime that we turn our heads to and choose not to
But they mostly focus on international trade. Our own government offers programs and funding for foreign victims of trafficking but none for domestic. They seem unwilling to recognize that the majority of these victims are not foreigners, but the girls next door. Is it just easier to imagine that they are from other countries and that it can’t happen here to our own? A photo of a sad girl from Mexico sold across the border for sex makes for good fundraising, but few seem to care “about the black girl from the slums of Dallas or the white girl from the wrong side of the tracks.” It is a hidden crime that we turn our heads to and choose not to