Human Trafficking is Real

Dear Friend in Christ,

Many women and children who are trafficked are abducted from within the borders of the United States itself. According to a 2019 report by Human Rights Watch, picked up by our S.O.S. to End Human Trafficking in America program, most women and girls they interviewed said they were trafficked by people they know, who prey on their desperation, making false promises of paid employment, professional training, and education. They are transported within and across national borders, often under life-threatening conditions. Survivors recounted harrowing journeys wrought with death, rape, beatings, fear, theft, extortion, and lack of food and water. The danger of these journeys was captured by one 28-year-old woman who said, “You pray for death. You cry until you cannot cry any more. People die, faint, are beaten, raped.”

“Forced labor (human trafficking) in the private economy generates US$ 150 billion in illegal profits per year, about three times more than previously estimated”, according to a 2014 report from the International Labor Organization (ILO). “Two thirds of the estimated total of $150 billion, or $99 billion, came from commercial sexual exploitation, while another $51 billion resulted from forced economic exploitation, including domestic work, agriculture and other economic activities. This takes our understanding of trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery to a new level,” said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder. “Forced labor is bad for business and development and especially for its victims. Our new report adds new urgency to our efforts to eradicate this fundamentally evil, but hugely profitable practice as soon as possible.” The report indicates that more than half of the people in forced labor are women and girls, primarily in commercial sexual exploitation and domestic work, while men and boys were primarily in forced economic exploitation in agriculture, construction, and mining.

Please help the Miles Jesu Missions today, such as our S.O.S. to End Human Trafficking in America program, www.SOSfortheNeedy.org. Your one-time gift or pledge of whatever your means allow truly makes all the difference! In Miles Jesu we take our benefactors seriously and pray for you and your loved ones during our daily Mass, our holy hours and rosaries. This is our debt of gratitude, since the Miles Jesu Missions depend upon the Providence of God through people like you.

Yours in Jesus through Mary

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