And, Mr. Eaves, in your testimony you list several factors that can prevent child trafficking.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
Senator Rubio, I want to thank you, in particular, for the work you have done recently in this area.
Let me thank both of you, again, for your commitment on this issue and for your frankness with this committee.
We need to make it very clear there is nothing culturally acceptable about going to these other countries, as Americans, and participating in these sorts of things.
Foreign governments tend to focus their anti-trafficking efforts on sex trafficking, which is horrifying, but there is also the issue of labor trafficking.
Let me just highlight one more thing that I am hearing from NGOs with regards to China.
There are some countries, where, because of certain geopolitical issues, there might be some internal pressure not to downgrade them.
The political considerations are not used in the TIP process to distort the tier rankings.
The United States has always been, and will continue to be, a leader in combating modern-day slavery in the world.
The average wait time has been 59 minutes, but the problem with that is sometimes the wait time is as long as 190 minutes.
What they need is a software upgrade on those kiosks so that they will work for international travelers.
I think that is further compounded by what is no doubt over the last 10 years not just a massive expansion in their military capabilities, but by increasing assertiveness.
My argument is the people you are releasing them to do not believe the war is over.
So if they are not that special, why did they want them back, all five of these in particular?





