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Heidi Heitkamp

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Heidi Heitkamp is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic-NPL Party, she was the first woman elected to the Senate from North Dakota. During her tenure, Heitkamp focused on issues such as agriculture, energy, and rural development, advocating for policies that benefited her state's economy and communities.

Sep 22, 2013

We need to take this problem out of the shadows.

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Sep 22, 2013

Somehow we have to reduce the demand and the sense that it is OK to do this.

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Sep 22, 2013

I am trying to get at what is going to stop people from demanding these services or using the services of human beings who are trafficks.

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Sep 22, 2013

We have learned from our work in domestic violence that there is a way to begin to have deterrence against those people who would participate on either end.

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Sep 22, 2013

This is, in fact, human slavery. There is no other way to, I think, identify it.

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Sep 22, 2013

We could use five FBI agents in Fort Berthold right now. We have 3,000 pending criminal cases in tribal court.

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Sep 22, 2013

It is just so critically important that we get on top of this.

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Sep 22, 2013

One of the things that we did in domestic violence is we began to prosecute cases without victim testimony.

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Sep 22, 2013

It is not just these victims. It is crime against every person in this country.

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Sep 22, 2013

If we are just always going to rely on repairing a victim, you are going to miss the statute.

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Sep 22, 2013

Because it would seem to me that if people knew that there was a path forward for coming out of the shadows, there would be less of this kind of activity.

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