Sam Brownback: “Irina's story is told all too often and is reenacted all too often around the world today. Our Government estimates that…”

“Irina's story is told all too often and is reenacted all too often around the world today. Our Government estimates that between 600,000 and 2 million women are trafficked each year beyond international borders. They are trafficked for the purpose of sexual prostitution by organized crime units and groups that are aggressively out making money off the trafficking of human flesh. It is wrong. This bill seeks to deal with that wrong and that tragedy that has occurred and is occurring around the world today. This is significant human rights legislation that this body is going to pass. I hope, predict, and pray that it will pass today. It is significant human rights legislation for those poor young victims who are trafficked and who are caught sometimes with the view that, 'I am just stupid, I got caught in this,' but who live this horrible, hellish life they have been put into and trafficked into and can't find their way out.”