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Matthew Holgate is student body president at Vanguard University in California. And he’s becoming an expert in human trafficking, especially among his people in the Navajo Nation.
He sees the need to counsel people who have been caught in this evil web of human abuse that often leaves victims suffering from indescribable trauma. His goal includes creation of a non-profit to raise awareness of trafficking among Native American communities
LABOR TRAFFICKING
- Biggest form of trafficking
- Accounts for about 2/3rds of all trafficking globally.
- Victims of this tactic may end up
- Washing dishes
- Or other menial tasks
- Or exhaustive hard labor, at little or no pay and terrible living conditions.
“Traffickers are sneaky and traffickers are smart”
- Often setting up situations that make it difficult to bring charges against them.
- Extortion and intimidation often involve immigrants
- Who know little about protective laws,
- Who feel helpless when the traffickers confiscate their documents, leaving the immigrants with no identification capability.
- Traffickers prey upon immigrants already existing distrust of government agencies.
When it comes to finding ways to manipulate people,
“Traffickers use multiple avenues to get to people who they may seek out as being vulnerable.”
Holgate offers a statement he regards as very valuable, attributed to Dr. Beth Grant, co-founder of Project Rescue:
‘Human trafficking is one of the most tangible forces of evil that we can see today. Trafficking at its core is people hurting people – and people taking away the freedom that God gave everyone – and using another person’s freedom for their own personal gain.’
Resources
Learn what human trafficking is so that you can begin to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending it. Vanguard University -Resources
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