[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H507]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE SCOURGE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind my colleagues of 
the scourge of human trafficking and its impact on children.
  It is well known that human trafficking is more profitable than drug 
trafficking because the vicious cycle of using someone over and over 
again is both profitable and obviously devastating for that human 
being.
  In children and youth, they are used for sex trafficking. It is well 
known that you are apt to be trafficked from your school, from your 
primary or secondary school, online.
  So I have introduced H.R. 30. I ask my colleagues to join me in the 
Stop Human Trafficking in School Zones Act, in which I am joined by my 
colleague, Congressman McCaul, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs 
Committee.
  We have seen human trafficking go beyond the borders of this Nation. 
It is international. It is dastardly, as I said. It is in airports. It 
is in bathrooms in public transit places.
  I want to congratulate the NTZ operation in my own community that has 
stopped human trafficking at sports arenas.
  Let's protect children. Join H.R. 30, the Stop Human Trafficking in 
School Zones Act.

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