Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert has an
interesting reason for opposing immigration reform:
He believes it leads to child sex trafficking. Gohmert relayed
these beliefs to his fellow legislators in a speech on the House
floor Monday.
When legal status and amnesty is talked about here in
Washington, it becomes a magnet and draws people in. And for all of
the children that are drawn in illegally, you know that some get
sucked into sex slavery. Human trafficking becomes even bigger
business.
What? Even if political chatter about amnesty does lead to an
uptick in immigration, I’m not sure the promise of getting on the
U.S. government’s official radar is a big win for international sex
traffickers. These aren’t the folks being lured by a pathway to
citizenship.
If Gohmert means that undocumented immigrant children might be
more likely to get drawn or forced into the sex trade—well, that’s
not unreasonable. But a big part of the reason for that would seem
to stem from their undocumented status.
Anyway, Gohmert continued:
Because of the talk of amnesty in this town and because we do
not have a secured border, then this administration, and this
Congress also, is complicit in helping lure people into sex
trafficking.
Note that he doesn’t say immigration itself will lead to
increased child sex slavery—merely talking about
immigration reform is enough to embolden the evildoers,
apparently.
Gohmert has previously garnered attention for lamenting
that “Vietnam
was winnable, but people in Washington decided we should not
win it.”
[h/t Maggie
McNeil]
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