Right-Wing Lie of the Day 0020
“The Biden administration is engaging in human trafficking because they are enabling this to happen” at the southern border. -- Katie Pavlich
The core of this Lie is the attempt to equate migrant smuggling with human trafficking. They are not the same thing. Smuggling is focused on transportation, while trafficking is focused on exploitation. At the most
basic level, migrant smuggling involves consent by both parties, while human trafficking does not.
Vetting of sponsors under the Biden administration is no different than the vetting that took place under previous administrations. While there was one incident in 2014 in which migrant children were released to a human
trafficking ring, but that is the exception rather than the rule. The 2014 incident resulted in a congressional investigation and a criminal indictment.
"The government is not recruiting, transporting, transferring or harboring people for the purpose of exploiting them in any form — sexual
exploitation, forced labor or anything else — and they are not using force, fraud or coercion to make that exploitation possible," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an associate professor with the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
"It is self-evident that this is not trafficking, as they (the Biden administration) are releasing the children to be reunited with their
families. So this is a very sensational and inaccurate framing of what we are looking at," said David Kyle, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. "Are Biden policies unintentionally encouraging smuggling or protecting children by placing them with families? Perhaps all of the above, with several caveats, but definitely not abetting ‘trafficking.’"
More info:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/06/katie-pavlich/katie-pavlich-f alsely-claims-biden-administration-/
Jeff.
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