Fact & Fiction

"Ladies and gentlemen, the United States is one of the largest markets for sex slavery in the entire world. We need to realize that modern-day slavery is only occurring because we choose to ignore it." - Human Trafficking

Did anybody else happen to watch "Human Trafficking" on TV this weekend? I caught the last hour or so on the ION channel on Sunday night. It's a made-for-TV miniseries starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland that debuted in 2005 on Lifetime--and it's definitely not for the faint of heart.

The four-hour long movie looks at a fictional sex slave trade ring and the actions Mira Sorvino's character, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, takes to stop it. Mira Sorvino, a real-life Amnesty International Ambassador, says that she chose the script for its authenticity, and the Department of Homeland Security even signed on to advise.

The first video is a TV promo for the series.


The second takes clips from the movie itself--heads up, it includes some of the more disturbing parts of the film, but I like Mira Sorvino's speech that plays as the voiceover and think it's important to hear.

"An ounce of cocaine--you can only sell it once. A woman or a child: You can sell them . . . every day over and over and over again. The markup is immeasurable. Human trafficking, ladies and gentleman, is the business of the future."