It is my hope that with the help of your testimony, we will raise awareness about this issue and identify solutions that...
I could not agree with you more. I think part of the exercise here is to determine what can we at the Federal level do t...
I especially thank you for your presence here today.
I am proud to cosponsor my friend and colleague, Congressman Ted Poe--his one bill, the End Sex Slavery Act, and his sec...
I want to first take this opportunity to commend the Houston Police Department.
Texas is a major crossroads in the United States for human trafficking and forced labor.
A broken immigration system is the best tool available to a would-be trafficker.
Every year, according to the State Department and the Department of Justice, between 14- and 17,000 people are trafficke...
We must work to protect at-risk individuals and create safer neighborhoods and communities in Texas and across the Unite...
We got to treat these kids as victims of crime and not prostitutes.
If the johns are afraid, the rapists are afraid of being publicly humiliated--and Judge Poe did this when he was a judge...
Children should never be in a position in life where they feel like nobody is going to look for them.
We need the Feds to build a Human Trafficking Regional Database in LEO.
You take that victim and you put them in jail, even though they are not a criminal and we know they are not a criminal, ...
I have worked hard to empower inmates to share information about crimes they are aware of in the free-world.
bi-partisan legislation on the framework of the 'Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act' proposed by Sen. Cornyn and Con...
In a country like this, we can only provide 30 beds for trafficked boys that are domestic trafficked boys?
What you need to look out for is someone like me. What you need to look out for is your granddaughter.
