McCain: Create Human Trafficking Task Force! (oops, we already have one)

masbury

5-7-2008 11:14 PM

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As President, I’ll increase cooperation and communication between all agencies of the federal government <STRONG>by establishing an Inter-Agency Task Force on Human Trafficking, whose purpose will be to focus exclusively on the prosecution of human traffickers and the rescue of their victims</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/07/mccain-trafficking-taskforce/"><P>While McCain’s proposal sounds great and creates the illusion that he is a champion of <A href="http://www.polarisproject.org/">this particular cause</A>, there is one problem — an “Inter-Agency Task Force on Human Trafficking” already exists. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/07/mccain-trafficking-taskforce/">a result of the <A href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/10492.pdf#page=11">Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/07/mccain-trafficking-taskforce/">the task force is already set up to do much of what McCain proposed</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/07/mccain-trafficking-taskforce/">combating sex trafficking, bringing traffickers to justice, and focusing on victims</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/87E9EE97-92B8-4642-811F-A1CC4F3B1E15/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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masbury says:

"While McCain’s proposal sounds great and creates the illusion that he is a champion of this particular cause, there is one problem — an 'Inter-Agency Task Force on Human Trafficking' already exists."