[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 34 (Monday, February 26, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H1249]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        DENICE MIRACLE--AMERICAN AIRLINES EMPLOYEE TO THE RESCUE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, New York City lights, modeling, and 
starring in music videos sounds like a script from a movie. So when two 
young girls met a man they knew as ``Drey'' on Instagram, they thought 
they had their ticket to the spotlight. Little did they know they were 
about to be victims of human sex trafficking.
  The 15- and 17-year-old girls headed to the airport, ready to check 
into their American Airlines flight. Denice Miracle, however, was 
working the American Airlines ticket counter when the girls approached. 
She noticed that the teenagers looked nervous. They had too many bags, 
no adult was with them, and they had one-way, first-class tickets.
  Denise's training kicked in, recognizing the red flags of human 
trafficking. She immediately alerted law enforcement, and they came to 
the rescue. Thankfully, this story ends with both girls returning home 
safely. They were not trafficked into the scourge of human slavery, in 
large part, because of Denice, who saw something and said something.
  We thank people like Denise Miracle for their work, for their 
personal involvement in rescuing these two girls from evil.
  And that is just the way it is.

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