America is the world’s most prolific human trafficker. That’s the clear implication of this UN definition, at least.
Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Just who is exploiting whom is a topic of little curiosity in these matters. Though I think certainly our legions of foreign software developers, lettuce pickers, landscapers, hotel maids, and otherwise lethargic left-wing voters have certainly been induced by payments or benefits to advance a separate party’s selfish ends through exploitation of their presence here. So I’m very much looking forward to the resulting trials, as the docket will be dense indeed.
In the meantime, I was nearly moved to tears by this horrifying event. Apparently, the American President has spirited an Egyptian woman away from her home in Egypt and is exploiting the act for political gain.
President Trump and his aides worked for several weeks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to secure the freedom of Aya Hijazi, 30, a U.S. citizen, as well as her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, who is Egyptian, and four other humanitarian workers. Trump dispatched a U.S. government aircraft to Cairo to bring Hijazi and her family to Washington.
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The couple and their co-workers had been incarcerated since May 1, 2014, on child abuse and trafficking charges that were widely dismissed by human rights workers and U.S. officials as false.
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A senior administration official said that no quid pro quo had been offered for Hijazi’s release but that there had been “assurance from the highest levels [of Sissi’s government] that whatever the verdict was, Egypt would use presidential authority to send her home.”
Putting on a brave face with her captors
Sending the dual-citizen Hijazi home would have been a very brief flight from Cairo, and so I presume the American aircraft’s navigation equipment must have malfunctioned egregiously for the trip to terminate in Washington. Though as it stands the American taxpayer, and the attention of his elected executive have been devoted to transporting Egyptian inmates across the Atlantic for some reason.
But you shouldn’t accept my assertions for where Ms. Hijazi’s home is; nor should you accept her’s. As always, men lie with their tongues and speak the truth with their feet. And where did her charitable feet suggest the home of her heart actually resides?
Hijazi…was working in Cairo with the Belady Foundation, which she and her husband established as a haven and rehabilitation center for street children in Cairo.
That’s nice. Truly, it is. If the charges against her are false, then she seems a genuinely philanthropic sort. Just not an American philanthropist. For if she were, our own cities offer an embarrassment of opportunity for charitable Americans wishing to help children on the street. One example among countless is depicted below.
Just as the feet of David Brooks’ son left tracks straight to his heart’s home in Israel, so too does Aya Hijazi’s. She wants a better life…for Egyptians. America is simply the safe harbor from which that work can most effectively be accomplished. That’s advantageous for Egyptians, much less so for the people whose home this truly is.
The truth is that what a person is isn’t altered by where they go and whom they help. A Chinaman feeding Ugandans remains a Chinaman. Just as an Egyptian feeding Egyptians remains an Egyptian, no matter how exotic this theory may seem on the surface. But it is telling when the “I’m as loyal an American as you” narrative doesn’t even survive the first bout of charity work.
That’s why I’m calling for the immediate release and return of all trafficked foreigners in America. Their homeless need them at home.
I’ve always found the hyphenation ethnicity insulting from the beginning. Something that I’m sure it was meant to be in the leftist worldview.
While I’m merely “American” (or worse) “White”, the much vaunted people of color get to add a multiplier bonus to their title. African-American (+1 PC Bonus), Egyptian-American (+3 PC Bonus), Muslim-American (+100 PC Bonus), or even funnier Somali-American (-100 PC Bonus because even libs knows Somalis are shit no matter what they tell themselves).
It goes without saying that anyone hyphenating what they are is clearly the first item on the list, and a distant way from the second.
But even worse, for someone merely “American” or “White” we are just expected to be noise in the background that keeps the lights on and the food flowing to the dinner table without complaining.
I too think we should do them a favor and put them back to where they most identify and save the hyphens for the nutjob feminists that get married to some poor schmuck.
They’re all Fake-Americans.
They have to go back.
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“Dual citizenship” is no real citizenship at all. It’s just fence-sitting.
Agreed. No country should allow it.
One caveat: there is a small leventine country whose dual citizens benefit it tremendously.
Or, as the late great Joe Sobran waggishly put it, dual-loyalty would be an improvement.
Anyone that feels the need to hyphenate is simply “the rest of you”
I’m still waiting for the door to his De Niro’s arse.
HaHa. ‘Importing 3rd World poor to do Jobs Americans Won’t’ is brutally racist.
Make elitist Americans do those jobs.
Living and working in Saudi Arabia the police stop me for an imagined traffic violation. I hand him my residency document. He doesn’t look at it. Many are illiterate so I am not surprised.
He asks in Arabic, “What is your nationality?”
“American,” I reply in Arabic with the Lebanese accent that I had absorbed after years with the eponymous natives. The accent matches my generic American “ethnic” look, a product of unknown Native American provenance and content. It’s a look that can mean anything to anyone: Italian? Spanish? Lebanese? It depends on what you want to hear, or better, imagine, depending on your proclivities. For this police officer, married to the verbal cues, it was Lebanese.
“American? No, you are Arab.” And with that he tossed the document back into the car. For the Arab, nationality isn’t something given with a shiny new passport. You are what you are, even when you aren’t, and no one knows it better than an Arab. All the paper and Proposition in the world won’t change that.
“I’m calling for the immediate release and return of all trafficked foreigners in America.”
Screw that. We stole them fair and square, and we’re keeping them. It’s payback for centuries of White slavery raids against European coastal villages.
@John the Forsaken, they’ve retired “Somali-American” for the more palatable “Minnesota Man”.
She’s bringing pizzagate evidence to Sessions
Porter,
I just want to say that I only discovered your blog a few short weeks ago but I have become an avid fan, reading almost everything in your archives. Were American culture not so thoroughly debased, your writing would be generously distributed and provided handsome payment. In any event, your wit and sagacity are much appreciated.
Perhaps the most underreported story of 2016 was the genuine motivation of the Orlando massacre gunman/terrorist, Omar Mateen. As he cold-bloodedly gunned down one person after another in that hedonistic nightclub, he said into his cell phone that he wished that the U.S. would cease bombing “my country,” meaning Afghanistan. This was never picked up on even though for a day or two it was reported by the Los Angeles Times.
In other words, I am sure we all recall the endless weeks during which the left and media–I need not ask, for I know I repeat myself–tsk-tsk’d right-wingers for their terrible xenophobia. After all, the rationale went, Mr. Mateen was a “homegrown” Islamic terrorist.
Well… He may have been born in the U.S. of A., but as far as being “homegrown” goes… His heart said otherwise.
Exactly. People instinctively understand the difference between home and a hotel. And their loyalties always lie with the former, no matter how many amenities are offered by the latter. Mexicans want to live here because non-Mexicans have created a far more liveable society. But they wave Mexican flags even into the Nth generation because the heart rarely leaves home. Just as if I were comfortably cosseted in a sterile Tokyo technotopia, my loyalties would still remain with my people, even though we’d all agree I was just as much Japanese as a samurai.
Thanks for the kind words, and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the blog.