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Obama: Human trafficking 'not a business model'

Sheeh, yet he advocates restricting the ability of the Border Patrol to combat that very thing ???

Usual Obuma rhetoric.

Don Jose de La Mancha

Migration from Mexico to the USA is down to a net of zero for the 1st time in 60 years, according to the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton. People caught trying to cross the border are down 54% from 2008, at the lowest level in almost 40 years. Predictable since the Border Patrol has nearly twice as many people on the US-Mexico border & they're using military type technology. And not all illegal migrant workers are victims of human trafficking. If they want to be in the USA & they're not stuck paying off a debt to a coyote, they're not a victim.

Obviously the learned folks from Princeton have not been there, obviously you haven't either. The poor folks at the Border Patrol basically are ordered to watch the march. If they come in by themselves, then we're the victims. Get real.

Perhaps. But it needed to be said by our President. This is a deplorable practice, and one in which we're just putting in systems in-place to combat.

Neither is running the largest amount of debt in US history a good business model.

One third of the $16 Trillion dollar national debt belongs to Obama.

Were you complaining of the deficit when the previous administration started 2 totally unfunded wars? One of which was based upon "misinformation" and close to $10B mysteriously disappeared.
On top of that the cost of those wars were not added to the books until Obama took office.
Your numbers are based on way too simple of an equation. The devil is always in the details..

We are nearing the end of Obamas term and you are still blaming Bush.

Pathetic blind allegiance to a poor leader..

Here is a little light reading on Obama from the man who took down Nixon.

http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781439172506?redirected=true&selectCurrency=USD&gclid=CK_MueOa2LICFU6d4AodIBgAAA

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bob-woodward-gaps-president-obamas-leadership-contributed-debt/story?id=17183930#.UGWOCK5CnKQ

Hey! Focus!!! This is about human trafficking, NOT about your whining or myopic hateration views regarding our president. Geez...

You're right. If Bush hadn't spent all his political capital on 2 wars, we probably wouldn't be where we are today. And the Democrats, who have controlled Congress since 2007 wouldn't be responsible for signing off on most of that debt either.

What does this have to do w/ human trafficking?! And sorry, but many of us have other concerns than the deficit. And while we can debate about who caused it (not) I read this article because I care about more than finances - in fact, finances are what's helped create and flourish modern-day slavery.

We all agree that it's bad. But the problem is that for all of the talk I've witnessed on this topic, nobody seems to have much in the way of effective (lawful, anyway) solutions. So there really isn't much motivation for a deeper conversation on it. Sad, but true.