The Woman Who Named The Rescue Industry: Laura Agustín
In the modern political zeitgeist, the American public has been seized with news of sex slaves— What are commonly called traffickers, and what is frequently described as sexual human bondage emerging at a border.
The headlined alarms make the safe and comfortable recoil; the voting public demand we do something to make it stop, to uncover and destroy the beast.
But something weird has also happened. The corruption of a topic once thought to be unimpeachable. Take this story in the Washington Post, for example: Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence: U.S. Estimates Thousands of Victims, But Efforts to Find Them Fall Short.
What?
It turns out nearly 30 million dollars was spent, in a passionate effort, to find a relative tiny number of victims. The "experts" had estimated over 50,000 sex slaves, then up to a million, and warned of a tidal wave on the horizon. Yet over ten years, and aggressive funding, the activists on the ground foun…