I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
Quotes about traffickers (16 Quotes)
The problem is the traffickers are very good at controlling their victims, ... They don't have access to TV, their ability to learn English is restricted, so getting the message directly to the victims is difficult.
Touching the matter of the defilement to which the temple courts had been subjected by traffickers acting under priestly license, Farrar gives us the following 'And this was the entrance-court to the Temple of the Most High The court which was a witness that that house should be a House of Prayer for all nations had been degraded into a place which, for foulness, was more like shambles, and for bustling commerce more like a densely crowded bazaar while the lowing of oxen, the bleating of sheep, the Babel of many languages, the huckstering and wrangling, and the clinking of money and of balances (perhaps not always just), might be heard in the adjoining courts, disturbing the chant of the Levites and the prayers of priests'
Very often we see traffickers taking advantage of people's desperate situation, moving into a situation where families can be persuaded or compelled to part with their children.
These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers.
Drug traffickers benefit from the paramilitary skills, the access to weapons and links to other clandestine groups that terrorists can provide. Terrorists, for their part, gain a source of revenue and expertise in money laundering from drug traffickers,
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
They have to usually pay off their debt for being brought over by working. And those are the dangerous traffickers, the ones that are owed a lot of money. A lot of them are in New York City. We don't keep any Chinese children in the New York home that's why.
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting an important economic need. And we are a nation of laws, and we're a nation of immigrants. And if we're going to address the real threats, then we need to have a temporary worker program to allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists and the traffickers and smugglers that are trying to come into this country illegally.
We followed the money around the globe and into the hands of major Colombian drug traffickers, ... We've shown the black market peso exchange for what it is -- the largest known drug-money laundering mechanism in the Western Hemisphere.
The (Colombian) government's ambitious eradication campaign, to date, has met with heavy resistance from traffickers and armed insurgents,
This action underscores our determination to do everything possible to fight drug traffickers, undermine their operations, and end the suffering that trade in illicit drugs inflicts on Americans and people around the world,
If we are going to abolish modern-day slavery, then we have to put the traffickers out of business. That's going to demand, unfortunately, the cooperation of the victims.
Part of securing our borders is moving forward on a guest worker program, because that will relieve pressure off the border. It will allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the terrorists, the smugglers and traffickers that are trying to come into this country for the wrong reasons.
Begin to work out programs for regular migration. Begin to work on better cooperation among law enforcement and social ministries on the welcome of migrants, the integration of migrants and enforcement of mechanisms against smugglers and traffickers.