I would ask that my written opening statement be entered in the record. This hearing, and it's called the unprecedented migration at the US Southern Border. The exploitation of migrants through smuggling, trafficking and voluntary servitude really started a couple years ago with Senator Portman holding a hearing through his PSI subcommittee on example of involuntary servitude at an Ohio egg farm. More recent news stories after the Robert Kraft massage parlor scandal, New York Times wrote a really good investigative story just laying out the reality of these massage parlors and often Asian women that had been smuggled trafficking in this nation. (01:16–01:35)
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