Ed Royce: “You have heard today about the unconscionable child sex tourism industry which has been operating now for years…”

“You have heard today about the unconscionable child sex tourism industry which has been operating now for years overseas. There are child victims at home here, too. Our proactive efforts to help countries identify incoming child predators will also encourage them to alert us when those foreigners convicted of sex offenses against children attempt to enter the United States, just as we are going to control the process on this side. I thank Mr. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Mr. Eliot Engel of New York, and I encourage Members to support passage of the International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking. I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4573, the International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Sex Trafficking. This bill, along with the others under consideration this week, will dramatically improve our efforts to diminish the tragic effects of human trafficking and child exploitation. I am especially pleased to speak in support of this particular legislation, which would curb child sexual exploitation. Recently I chaired a field hearing in Houston on the unconscionable issue of human trafficking and child exploitation in our major cities. In Houston, and in many other cities across the United States, women and children, some not even in their teens, are held against their will and forced into prostitution rings.…”