In Saturdays post I linked to this article about the GAO report to Congress on Illegal Immigration.  The article, early on, goes into a subject that is one that turned me against the status quo before I left Minnesota....Human  trafficking.

The U.S-Mexican human smuggling business generates billions, but ICE agents have never managed to seize more than $17 million a year in smugglers' assets, Richard M. Stana, director of the GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Issues office, told the committee. He called those results "tepid."

A decade ago, 90 percent of Mexicans and other would-be illegal migrants crossed into the U.S. without using so-called coyotes, Stana said. But with a new wall and twice as many border agents, they increasingly use professional smugglers. That has meant higher prices charged by the smugglers, which attracted organized crime gangs to a business once dominated by less-violent operations rooted in migrant communities.

On the Texas border, the Zetas, the vicious former enforcers of the Gulf Cartel narcotics smuggling organization, have branched into the human smuggling trade.

"As we've done more to secure our borders, alien smuggling organizations have increasingly become more bold, violent and dangerous," subcommittee chairman Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said Thursday. "Particularly troubling is the potential for these organizations to smuggle terrorists into our country."

Signs of sophisticated, highly armed and well-financed smuggling operations and related kidnapping and extortion rings have emerged in all U.S.-Mexico border towns, as well as large cities like Houston and Phoenix.

In Arizona, a pre-dawn battle between human smugglers and gangsters killed 21 people on July 1 in the Sonoran desert south of Nogales.

In Houston, agents rescued 11 immigrants held at gunpoint in a house by one violent group of coyotes in 2009 and later dismantled a network of 14 illicit transportation companies used by smuggling rings.

The State Department’s 2010 “Trafficking In Person’s Report” talks about the types of human trafficking (aka slavery) that comes into the US and it is quite depressing.

I've written about this in the past.  What I had to say then still applies today....

I asked at the time where the feminist organizations were then and I say it again now.

"The women came mostly from Mexico and Central America.
When they arrived in Minnesota, the women had their passports and other identifying documents taken away and they were forced into a world of prostitution. In one night, two women serviced more than 80 men in a south Minneapolis house." (emphasis mine)

80 men in one night.....the sound you hear is my heart breaking into a hundred pieces! The truly sickening part, as John at Powerline reports, is that the Minneapolis police refused to participate in the raid because the perps in this raid were illegal immigrants and Minneapolis is a "sanctuary city"...
This "sanctuary city" loophole is atrocious! What about the women that were abused by these perps? Where is their sanctuary Mayor Ryback?

Open borders Democrats and Republicans support of SLAVERY with their continued support of illegal immigration!  This is one cost of illegal immigration that we simply must stand up and refuse to pay!  It is a moral as well as legal imperative.