Luis CdeBaca: The TT Interview
It’s time to redefine what human trafficking really is: slavery. So says U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
After speaking at Rice University earlier this week, the ambassador will attend the annual Central Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking conference in Austin on Wednesday. He spoke with The Texas Tribune about why he thinks people are uneasy about admitting human trafficking is a problem, how involved Mexican cartels are in the crime, what Texas has done ...
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The wealth of the American colonies was made from stolen land and slave labor. Similarly, whole segments of our modern economy are built on the labor of people who have no rights to be in this country or to protest harsh and inhumane work conditions. Their situation is almost identical to the slaves of that earlier era, who at least were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. We need the modern equivalent of that act, freeing people who are here working to have legal standing and the protection of the law. It is the right thing to do and someday we will look back with shame that it took us so long to do it.