United States - Breeding Ground for Human Trafficking

 2022.7.20.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15465

Over 20 years have passed since human beings entered the 21st century. But there still remains a country where human trafficking, remnants of slavery society, are rampant as regular commercial activities.

It is none other than the U.S.

On June 27, the most terrible incident happened in the suburbs of San Antonio, Texas, in which 50-odd immigrants were found dead from suffocation in a container car.

According to the results of investigations, there were over 60 immigrants in the container car, who were all from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and beyond. They lost their lives from heatstroke and dehydration because the air conditioner of the car was not in operation.

An official of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection admitted that this was the most terrible case of human trafficking. The U.S. media including the ABC News also deplored that many people are being killed by human trafficking committed even in broad daylight, saying that this was the worst case of human trafficking in the U.S. history.

Human trafficking is an incurable disease that has been in place for hundreds of years ever since the founding of the U.S.

According to the data, from 1525 to 1866, 12.5 million Africans were brought to the U.S. and were forced into slavery.

From 2014 to date alone, about 2,980 migrants, who were lured by human traffickers, lost their lives in the U.S.-Mexico border area while they were heading for the U.S. dreaming of “wealth and prosperity”.

That the U.S., which still follows its nasty human trafficking history, issues the “Trafficking in Persons Report” every year and assesses the “human trafficking situation” of other countries at its will is absolute nonsense and an insult to the human rights.

Referring to such situation, a professor of the People’s University of China jeered at the U.S., depicting it as a patient who forces his medicine down the throat of other person and even writes a prescription to him. It will only worsen his disease, he noted.

The U.S. should place itself on the operating table first rather than hiding its ills by making a fuss about other’s “ills”.