Blake Farenthold Quotes

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or another nation's.

When we look at human trafficking, we always think that it's far away from us.

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

The slave trade must be suppressed.

In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time to recognize that this evil affects communities all over the world, including here in Nevada.

Unfortunately, in Nevada - and more specifically, in Las Vegas and Reno - we've experienced incidents of human trafficking. In Las Vegas, the average trafficking victim is as young as 14. We must act to prevent this disturbing criminal activity from occurring in our communities.

In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.

I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.

To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

BEWARE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKERS (COYOTES, POLLEROS) They can deceive you with assurances of crossing in a few hours through the mountains and deserts. This is simply not so! They can risk your life taking you across rivers, drainage canals, desert areas, train tracks, or highways. This has caused the death of hundreds of persons.

I think the United States has to take the leadership for the entire world [on human trafficking].

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.

We have a moral obligation to raise awareness and educate those around us so we can create a world where human trafficking is a thing of the past, and bring these human rights violations to an immediate end.