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- Good afternoon.

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I am Linda Dixon,

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Program Manager for the
Department of Defense

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Combating Trafficking in
Persons, CTIP, Office.

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Welcome!

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This is the DoD's 2020 National Slavery

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and Human Trafficking
Awareness Month event.

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Please rise for the arrival
of the official party,

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and remain standing for
the Pledge of Allegiance.

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♪ I pledge allegiance to the flag ♪

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♪ of the United States of America, ♪

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♪ and to the republic
for which it stands, ♪

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♪ one nation, under God, indivisible, ♪

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♪ with liberty and justice for all. ♪

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Please be seated.

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We are pleased to acknowledge
the official party.

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The Ambassador-at-Large for the Office

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to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons

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at the State Department,
Ambassador John Cotton Richmond.

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(audience clapping)

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The Director of the Defense
Human Resources Activity

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for the Department of
Defense, Mr. William H. Booth.

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(audience clapping)

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And the Acting Director

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of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency,

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Dr. Daniel P. Walsh.

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(audience clapping)

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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we have a interesting
program for you today.

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Unfortunately, our second speaker, Kumar,

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was unable to join us,

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but we promise that the next hour

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will be compelling and insightful.

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We will start with a brief video
which is the latest product

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from our Combating Trafficking
in Persons Program Office.

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Our CTIP Program Office major goal

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is to educate every member
of the Department of Defense

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about trafficking in persons.

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So with that, watch the video please.

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- [Narrator] United States
military and civilian forces

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strive to promote our interests abroad

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and to protect our freedoms at home.

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We interact and ally on a daily basis

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with local civilians, government,

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and military personnel around the world.

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In performance of our duties,

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U.S. forces may encounter terrible crimes,

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and serious human rights violations,

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such as sex trafficking, forced labor,

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slavery, kidnapping,
torture, and child soldiers.

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These acts, when performed
under color of law,

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meaning committed in official capacity,

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rise to the level of gross
violations of human rights.

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United States law and DoD
policy define a number

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of inhumane acts as gross
violations of human rights,

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including, but not limited to,

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many forms of trafficking in persons.

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Historically, U.S. forces
encountered these violations.

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In World War II, Korean women
were forced into prostitution

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to serve as comfort women
to Japanese soldiers.

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In Southeast Asia, Burmese minorities

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were trafficked for labor and prostitution

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by Burmese military forces.

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And more recently,

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in some Middle East and African countries,

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children are conscripted to serve

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as soldiers, porters, cooks,
minors, and sex slaves.

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So, what should we do
when we see or suspect

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a gross violation of human rights?

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Consider the DoD's response

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to a situation of great
concern in Afghanistan.

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In spite of a state-supported ban,

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several members of the
Afghan Security Forces

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continued to take part in
the tradition of bacha bazi.

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In English, dancing boys.

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In private parties, young
boys dressed as girls,

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forced to dance for the
entertainment of the men,

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passed around, and often used for sex.

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The practice is a form
of human trafficking,

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and when the participants
are uniformed forces,

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and the crime is committed
under color of law,

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it is also a gross
violation of human rights.

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- [Charmane] And human trafficking

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is defined as a form of modern day slavery

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where people--

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- [Narrator] In Afghanistan,
the Program Manager for

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the DoD's Combating
Trafficking in Persons,

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or CTIP, Program Management Office,

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briefs all new arrivals
at Bagram Air Base,

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so they'll know what to look for,

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and how to immediately report

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suspected violations, such as bacha bazi.

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- It's important to know that
our OCONUS CTIP mission here

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operates from a foundation
of shared understanding

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that human dignity and
respect are force multipliers.

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So, we will continue to do the hard work

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to move the needle forward

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to ensure these heinous
crimes and incidents

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do not happen within
our military footprint.

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- [Narrator] U.S. forces under
the U.S. Southern Command

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also encounter gross violations

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of human rights on a regular basis.

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SOUTHCOM's Human Rights Office delivers

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required training to
all deploying personnel,

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and issues a standing orders pocket card,

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to remind them of the five R's
of their mandated reporting,

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in accordance with SOUTHCOM's
zero tolerance policy

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for human rights violations.

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If you witness or suspect
a violation, take action.

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The DoD's position is clear.

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Any suspected trafficking in persons

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or other human rights violations

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must be reported immediately.

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Each regional command has a mandated

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reporting chain based on the region.

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So, now is the time to make sure you know

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the reporting channels
of your particular AOR,

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and to be prepared at all
times to see it, report it.

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- Ladies and gentlemen, it
is now my honor to introduce

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the Director of Defense
Human Resources Activity,

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Mr. William H. Booth.

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Mr. Booth is a member of the
Senior Executive Service.

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In his capacity as the Director

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of the Defense Human Resources Activities,

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he provides administrative and operational

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oversight of the Field Activity,

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which includes

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the Combating Trafficking
in Persons Program Office.

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Immediately prior to this assignment,

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Mr. Booth served as the
Assistant Deputy Undersecretary

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of the Air Force Management,

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and Assistant Air Force Deputy
Chief Management Officer.

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Mr. Booth retired from the
Air Force after 28 years

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serving in a wide variety of positions

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of increasing responsibility,
at Wing, Major Command,

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Unified Command, and Air
Force Headquarters level.

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We are very fortunate and thankful

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for Mr. Booth's leadership and support

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of the Combating Trafficking
in Persons Program.

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Mr. Booth, sir, the floor is yours.

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- Thank you.

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(audience clapping)

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I hope the video had the impact on you

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that it has on me every time I see it.

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This stuff really goes on.

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Yes, it just goes on overseas, right?

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No. Linda brought to
my attention not too...

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Yeah, I'm already off script. (laughs)

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Linda brought to my
attention not too long ago.

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No, I'm on mic.

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- Oh!

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My bad!

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- That's okay, she's
trying to take care of me.

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That recently, not too
far from where I live,

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out in the Herndon area,

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we had a major roundup
of human traffickers.

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That's where we live and work.

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So this is real.

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This is not something
that's just far, far away,

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but when our military are deployed,

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when our civilians are deployed.

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But even if we're in garrison,

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even if we're here at the Pentagon

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or the Mark Center where most of us work,

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it is our responsibility

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to do the same things

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that you saw in that order
from SOUTHCOM Commander.

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And let's never forget that.

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Now, I will actually go
to my prepared remarks.

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The video did it, okay?

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Thank you everyone for being here.

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Absolutely thanks to the folks
that organized the event.

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It takes a lot of work.

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Thanks to each of you that do your bit

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every single opportunity
you have to help us

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and the never-ending campaign

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to eradicate this thing
called human trafficking.

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We're honored today to have
Ambassador Richmond with us.

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Ambassador Richmond, basically,

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is an ambassador to the world
to help lead this effort.

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He's the federal government lead

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over at the Department of the State

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for eradicating human trafficking.

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And frankly, I'm just
amazed he even had time

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to give us a few minutes today, so sir,

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thank you for being here.

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The President declared this the month

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that we focus on preventing
human trafficking,

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with a proclamation of it, you know,

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National Slavery and Human
Traffic Prevention Month.

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We have events such as this.

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But more importantly, let's talk about

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what we in the Department
have done over time.

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There's things to be proud of,

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and there are certainly things
to strive for in the future.

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First of all,

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we were the first department
in the federal government,

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and our acquisition
regulations, and the DFAR,

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to insert a clause that actually mandates

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that contractors pay
attention to trafficking.

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Way back in 2006.

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But as you see even
today, incidents occur.

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So that's the good thing.

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I'm glad to tell you all

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that soon we will be the
first federal entity to,

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in our DoD schools,

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to have training for the
students on this subject.

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And obviously, we'll
offer that same training

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for their parents.

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A great step forward,
because it's the young folks

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that are the next generation.

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And if they're trained and
understand what to watch for,

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even a student abroad could be
in effect a first responder,

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as we try to eradicate human trafficking.

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So I covered those three
points rather well.

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Brenda, smile.

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Okay, okay.

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But you know, now let's talk

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about this a little bit more to home.

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Why do we care?

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Why do we care?

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We care because part
of our national fabric

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is ensuring that everyone can live free.

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What this nation was founded

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is on the principles of equals.

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Equal opportunity.

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And yes, there was some times in our past

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when we had to struggle to get there,

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but as a nation, we got there.

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And now, we need to be the
shining light for the world.

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Next to the State Department,

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we probably have more
people in more locations

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than anyone else in the
American government.

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Actually, I can make a contention,

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we have more people than State

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because we have Marines
in all of the embassies,

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I do believe, so wherever
they are. (laughs)

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But my point is,

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we have an opportunity
to make a difference.

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And that's what this is
about, making a difference.

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If it's like this while it's the month,

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it's the month that we recognize,

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and we think about combating trafficking.

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It's good thing, and I thank the good lord

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that President Trump made that
point in the proclamation.

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But this is something we actually need

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to focus on 365 days a year, period.

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We need to be the first responders.

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In our DHRA family,

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we have a wide group of
prevention portfolios.

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We had the portfolio in our
Suicide Prevention Office,

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where we're doing our best to try to help

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stem the suicide rate in the military,

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and our civilian population
in the department.

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We have our Sexual Assault
Prevention live stream,

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which is trying to do the
same in that egregious area.

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And then we have our CTIP Program,

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which is trying to help stem the tide

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in this equally egregious area.

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The only term in this video that causes me

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to have some chagrin,
and it has to be there,

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is the use of the word
gross before violation.

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Because for me personally,

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anything that entraps a person,
takes away their freedom,

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that is a violation, whether
it's labeled gross or not,

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that we have to be willing to report.

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Let someone else make
that legal determination,

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if it reaches the level
of being actionable

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from a legal viewpoint and being gross.

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We're just first responders.

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The military and civilian members

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of the Department of Defense.

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Our contracting partners,

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Active Guard Reserve,
full-time, part-time,

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everyone in the DoD
enterprise, has a role.

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So as you're dealing in your daily jobs,

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doing that paperwork here in the Pentagon,

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which we all love staff work, right?

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Think about as you're doing that,

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how you could have an impact
on the front lines of this war.

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And this is a war.

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How can you have an impact?

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The first thing is by just
your personal dedication,

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and your personal support of the effort.

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Not just one time a year to come

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to an event in the Pentagon auditorium.

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And quite honestly, what's been
going on the last few days,

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that we got 30% of this auditorium full

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is kind of a pleasant surprise.

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Because we know what's
going on in the world.

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But I will tell you this,
in the words of our SecDef,

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Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense Esper,

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"Each of us take a solemn oath

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"to support and defend the Constitution.

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"The Department's mission
imparts a special responsibility

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"to each of us to serve
with the utmost integrity,

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"and be diligent in protecting
the duties and confidences

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"with which we have been entrusted."

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Helping combat human trafficking

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is one of those duties.

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Yes, fighting the nation's wars

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is just one of those big duties.

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Doing our best to preserve the
defense, provide deterrence,

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and help our partners and the state

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to do the diplomatic mission,
is one of those duties.

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But also, doing what's right
on this important front

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is one of those duties.

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I thank you for being here.

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I look forward to hearing
the speaker we do have here.

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The speaker we don't have
here, quite honestly,

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he was tied up in some
ongoing events of the week

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that made security heightened

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and he couldn't actually
make the connections

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getting out of country in time.

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So yes, even the actions
going on right now

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in the four areas
impacted even this event.

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Thank you.

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(audience clapping)

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- Thank you, Mr. Booth.

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We will now move directly to our speaker,

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Mr. Harold D'Souza.

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Mr. D'Souza is a survivor
of labor trafficking

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and debt bondage, in the
United States of America.

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Originally from India,

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Harold stepped down from a
senior management position

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in order to pursue the American dream,

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which he believed was within his reach.

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For 133 months, Harold was exploited

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at the hands of a human trafficker
within the United States.

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Losing his freedom and struggling
to keep his family safe,

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today, Mr. D'Souza

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is a survivor,

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a advocate,

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public speaker,

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and a member

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of the U.S. Advisory Council
on Human Trafficking.

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Please join me in welcoming
Mr. Harold D'Souza.

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(audience clapping)

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- Thank you.

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I think this came off here.

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How are you doing?

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Good afternoon, everyone.

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- [Audience] Good afternoon.

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- Thank you first and foremost
for inviting a common man,

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a survivor, especially to the Pentagon.

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It means a lot to me, and
to all the immigrants,

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not only in the United States
of America, but globally.

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Respected

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Dr. Walsh,

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Mr. Booth,

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my good friend, I would say.

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But I'm very proud to say
that Ambassador John Richmond

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is a very happy, humble,
honest, and a good human being.

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And he has done a fantastic
job way back in India,

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and I thank you very much
for encouraging survivors

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to live a happy life.

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And moving ahead, I want to
thank Linda, Brenda, and Laura.

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Especially Linda and Brenda

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for being so cool,
caring, and compassionate,

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for organizing my logistics,

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my travel plan to D.C.,

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and again, giving me a ride here,

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and making my life very easy.

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So thank you very much.

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Having said that,

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I want to thank each and
every individual sitting here,

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and I just want to share what happens

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in the life of a human labor
trafficking and debt bondage

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in the United States of America.

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And just moving ahead,

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I just want to share, I have titled my,

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I've written a book, A Frog in a Well.

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But why I say that,

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I grew up in a village
in India, Mangalore.

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It's a small village and

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we don't have running
water or electricity.

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So every house, there is a well.

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And from the well, we get the water.

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Same way, in the life of a victim

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of human labor trafficking
or sex trafficking,

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the victim's life is
like a frog in the well.

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The frog thinks that's the world,

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because there's water, there's everything.

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But not knowing there's
a better world outside.

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So, same in the case
of a labor trafficking.

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We didn't know that
there's, you have choice,

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you have freedom, your
happiness, other factors.

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But having said that,

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I just want y'all to understand
how a person like me,

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who is educated, or a girl
who's highly educated,

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can become a victim of sex
trafficking or labor trafficking.

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Understand one thing, I am from India.

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Mine's is an arranged marriage.

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I got married on May 29, 1994.

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And in those days,

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we never exchanged photographs or nothing,

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I just went and saw her.

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But we got married.

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But today, I am a happy husband.

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We are married for more
than 25 years, happily.

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But, what I'm going to say is that

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we work our marriage and relationship

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on trust, faith, commitment.

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And that's how we get into
this type of situation.

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I was invited to the
United States of America

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in the year 2003, on an H-1B visa.

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On a salary of $75,000,
that is mucho money.

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Especially for people like me, like India.

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Because we convert one dollar into rupees.

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It was like fast-forwarding my life.

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And I thought I could improve my life

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and change the life of my kids.

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And that changed me, of coming here.

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I came on four things.

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I came on a trust.

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I came on a faith.

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I came on a promise.

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And I came to live my American dream.

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But little did I know

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that I was walking straight into a trap

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because I was manipulated,
I was tricked, and trapped.

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The day I landed in February of 2003,

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my perpetrator asked me,
"Harold, do you have any cash?"

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And I said yes, I was carrying
$1,000 cash from India.

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So he said, "Oh, it is
not safe! Give it to me!"

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And I believed him.

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I just didn't know, so
I gave him the cash.

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And I forgot about it, thinking
that it's in safe custody.

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And what happens?

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He makes me and my wife
work in a restaurant.

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I came as a business developing
manager on a $75,000 salary.

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Everything in black and
white, on an H-1B visa.

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Makes my wife and myself
work at a restaurant

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from the day one, the day we landed,

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in the evening at seven o'clock.

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And within few days,

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we were working from 14
hours to 16 hours a day.

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Nonstop, seven days a week, 365 days.

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And he fixed the very first day,

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"Harold, you got two boys."

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My two sons were four
years and seven years old.

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And he said, "You know, you need money.

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"You need to buy a house."

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Like he just showed us the moon.

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And he fixed the salary of
my wife for $2,000 a month.

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So we said, "Okay, that's cool."

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But what happens?

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We started working.

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And within weeks, we were
working like 16 hours a day.

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I still remember the first day,

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when I was coming home at night,

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two o'clock, from the restaurant.

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And we are so excited to see our kids.

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And that, out of excitement,
I opened the door,

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like you open the door of your house door.

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I opened the door.

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And I was so excited, I
opened the door so hard, fast,

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that I hit so hard on my son's head,

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because my younger son was
sleeping next to the door,

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waiting for us.

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And my older son was six
feet away on the floor

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in his undergarments,
they're sleeping like rats,

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waiting for us.

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But that, what happens breaks you down.

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Breaks a parent down,
his trust, the dignity.

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But this all continued.

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And having said that, I
just want to play a video,

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and I'll continue my journey.

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This will give you a total idea.

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Oh, sorry.

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- Human trafficking.

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It's victimizing tens of thousands

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of hard-working people in America.

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And as hard as it is to believe,

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it's happening here in the Tri-State.

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Kathrine Nero walks you step-by-step

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through a family's American dream,

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and the moment they
realized it was all a sham.

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- $75,000 a year.

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That's the money Harold
D'Souza was promised,

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the money that made him uproot his family

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from India and move to Blue Ash,

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the money he never saw.

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What he did see was
confusion, starvation, lies,

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and years of fighting to
get the life he longed for.

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Harold and Nancy D'Souza moved
to the U.S. 11 years ago.

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- Back in India, it's
every person's dream,

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I would say, to come to the United States.

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- [Kathrine] With $1,000 in their pocket,

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faith, promise, and a dream.

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- The faith got changed to fear.

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The promise got transformed into slavery.

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And my dream, which I
came, was like a hell.

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- [Kathrine] Within months,
the nightmare began.

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They worked 15-hour day, 7 days
a week, and never got paid.

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The D'Souzas are educated,

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but they say they were still brainwashed

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by the restaurant owner
who brought them here.

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- Well, whatever he said, we believed.

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- [Kathrine] Erin Meyer,

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from End Slavery Cincinnati
and the Salvation Army,

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says that story is a common one.

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- It starts off as a seemingly,

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particularly with labor trafficking,

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this is a great job, it's
gonna be a great opportunity.

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And then, it divulges into this

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abusive, restrictive, and
coercive relationship.

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- [Kathrine] So for more than a year,

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the D'Souzas lived with
no money, no furniture.

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Their children, Bradley,
now a sophomore at UC,

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and Rohan, a junior at
Sycamore, slept on the floor.

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Clothing and food were scarce.

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- If you don't have a pair
of shoes, you can still live.

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If you don't have some basic,

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no television, you can live,

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but it's very difficult to
live if you don't have food.

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And I can still feel it.

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- [Kathrine] The restaurant owner,

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whom the D'Souzas won't name
for fear of retaliation,

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never paid them a penny.

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- In U.S., we didn't know the culture.

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We didn't know the people.

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We were totally clueless.

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- [Kathrine] Eventually, Harold and Dancy

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took their story to Blue Ash police,

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who sent them through to
the Department of Justice.

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- She said, "This is a
case of human trafficking."

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Till then, even we did not realize

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that we had been trafficked.

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- [Kathrine] On the other side now,

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he's proud of his perfect attendance

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at his new job at Children's Hospital,

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and Bradley and Rohan
have an entire trophy case

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of awards honoring
their community service.

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- This community helped us so much.

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Us giving back however little
time is still not enough

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to make up for the thanks that we have.

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- We came with a dream, to
be registered in America,

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and today, I think we
are living the dream.

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- Harold says the food he
eats, the air he breathes,

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it's better now that
his nightmare is over.

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WCPO reporter Lucy May

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has an in-depth look at
the D'Souzas on WCPO.com,

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including the outcome of
their lengthy court case,

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and how you can help identify
victims of human trafficking.

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Kathrine Nero, 9 On Your Side.

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- So anyway, I just, in
all my presentations,

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my life has entirely been flipped.

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Alice said that we turn
obstacles into opportunities,

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and I always said,

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just to take three things
from my presentation is,

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be happy, be empowered, and be thankful.

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So every day I am really
happy, I'm thankful,

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and I'm empowered.

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And that goes to each
individual sitting here.

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Every individual has played
a very big role in our life,

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my entire family life.

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We all four were born in India,

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but I can proudly say
that we were all raised

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in the United States of America.

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I think they always say,

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the biological mother who
gives birth to a child,

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but the mother who raises that child

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is much bigger than the biological mother

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who gives birth to the child.

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But having said that,

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when we started working in
the restaurant, what happens?

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This labor trafficking in
the United States of America

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happens at four places.

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It happens at restaurants.

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It happens at gas stations.

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It happens at convenient stores.

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It happens at motels.

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These are the places where I know,

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where I got victimized, re-victimized.

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There are other places
like agriculture farming.

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But these are the four common places,

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which happens on a very high scale,

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especially with foreign nationals.

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So, other thing is that, for
any common man to survive

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in the United States of
America, you need four things.

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You need a state ID.

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You need a work permit.

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You need a Social Security card.

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And most important, you need freedom.

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The second part, what
does the perpetrator do?

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If my name is Harold,
my son's name is Rohan,

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or somebody's working there,
they'll not call you by name.

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They'll call you, "Illegal, come here."

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They always told me I was illegal.

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That's a nickname.

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Every immigrant who's working here

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in the United States of America

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under the table, is being paid cash.

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They're always termed as illegal.

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What happens?

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He does a couple of things.

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The perpetrator starts
to control the victim,

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because whenever you
call a person illegal,

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he or she thinks that he's a criminal.

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And that is what happened to us.

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We thought that we were a criminal.

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But that is what his plannings are.

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And down the road after a
couple of months, he tells me,

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"Harold, you need to take a bank loan."

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I said bank loan, I didn't want.

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Because we didn't have anything

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like you need to build up credit.

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In India we didn't have anything

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like credit cards

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or what is to build a credit.

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But he manipulated, tricked me,

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took me to the bank, one fine day,

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and takes me to the bank,
and I didn't know which bank,

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and still today, I didn't know

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because he drove me someplace.

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I go to the manager's cabin,
I sign a couple of documents.

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In five minutes, there's
a check in my name,

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a five-figure check in my name.

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And then takes me to his house.

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He's, by the way,

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most of the perpetrators

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in the United States of
America, or maybe globally,

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are multi-millionaires.

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Because they make rich profits.

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It's very intoxicating for them.

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They get so much joy when they see you,

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it's like removing a fish from a fish bowl

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and throwing it out.

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They enjoy it.

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I can literally see it
in my own eyes right now.

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So he takes me to his house, well, Harold,

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to his million-dollar house,

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and tells, "Harold, let's celebrate.

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"You're a rich man."

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He gets two shot glasses,

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pours some scotch,

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and says, "Cheers! You're
a rich man, let's enjoy."

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And it was late afternoon.

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So I just gulp it down, the scotch.

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And before it would reach in my stomach,

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from his pocket he removes a check,

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and tells me, "Harold,
you owe me this money."

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Now can you believe?

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In one second, I lost four things.

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I lost my voice.

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I lost my courage.

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I lost my hope.

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And I lost my freedom.

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And it was not 10,000, friends.

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It was not $20,000.

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It was more than $40,000.

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And now I was thinking,
"Where in the world,

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"I'm going to pay this money back to him."

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But at that particular moment,

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I realize now after maybe 10 years

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that that was actually a debt bondage.

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I had no clue.

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But, before really I could realize

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what was going on in my life,

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and before I could digest
what was happening to me,

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he comes to me,

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and I speak of this man from the bank

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and he says, "Harold, don't worry!

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You owe me much more."

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I said, "Oh my God, so that
was not the final bill?

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"So there is much more."

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So this continued.

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Comes December.

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We never saw snow in our life.

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Like I told you,

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in our house there has no
electricity or running water.

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Even having a cube of ice for
me, was like having ice cream.

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So we saw snow for the first time.

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Guess what?

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We get a note from the schoolteacher

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that both my sons cannot to come to school

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if they don't wear snow jackets.

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My kids had sweaters from India,

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so which we used to wear.

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But I didn't what was a snow jacket.

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My chef, he bought the snow jackets.

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And gave to my kids.

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And then we get a note next
day from the schoolteacher

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that both my sons cannot come to school

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if they don't wear snow gloves.

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Now we didn't know,
they had woolen gloves,

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but what I'm trying to say,
these are all red flags,

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which could have been identified

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at a very early stage in the school.

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Continues.

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What I'm trying to share,

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because I've got limited time.

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But just the tip of the iceberg

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of what happens in the life

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of a victim of labor
trafficking and debt bondage.

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Comes, after almost a year, my wife,

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she could not take it anymore.

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She used to break down,

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that was an every day story.

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And what happens to a man,

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a husband, a father,

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when you have got two kids.

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I always tell.

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I failed on four P's.

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I failed as a person.

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I failed as a provider.

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I failed as a protector.

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And I failed as a parent.

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But having said that,

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after one year, my wife
could not take it anymore.

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So she confronted the
perpetrator in the kitchen.

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In the morning, 10 o'clock,
when they're putting the buffet.

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And says that, "Why don't
you pay me my back wages?"

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And do you know, right
from San Diego to New York,

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or anywhere in the
United States of America,

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whichever small town it is,
perpetrators use four words

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to every immigrant.

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Number one, "I'll get you arrested."

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Number two, they do this action.

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They'll pull their hands and
say, "I'll get you handcuffed."

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Number three, "I'll get you deported."

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And number four, I'll get you jailed.

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Now, no foreign national wants
to hear these four words.

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Because everyone here has come to do

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a better living for their family
back in their own country,

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or to have a good life.

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Every foreign immigrant
who come here to work,

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are good human beings.

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They are not criminals.

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But this is what they tell.

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And what happens?

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Everyone gets scared, including me.

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So he told my wife, he does like this.

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"I'll call the immigration
department right now.

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"And tell them that you are illegal.

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"You are not supposed to work here."

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You make a person work for over a year,

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and then say that you
aren't supposed to work?

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But having said that, my
wife didn't say a word.

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She said that, "Why don't you pay Harold

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"the $1,000 he gave you?"

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So he calls me, looks
into my eyes straight,

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and tells, "Harold? What cash? What money?

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"You didn't give any cash."

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Friends, like I told you, I'm from India.

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But in one second, my
emotions, my feelings,

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and my sentiments, was shattered.

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I just couldn't do anything.

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But I always say,

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in God's word there is
delay and not denial.

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And my chef, he heard it.

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He was in a similar situation
in some other state.

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And he got his status later on.

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So he told me, "Harold,
you need to get out.

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"If you don't get out,

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"you, your wife, and
your two sons are dead."

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And that is how we went and
started to fight our case.

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Eventually, my case went to the FBI.

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It's a long story.

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I went to the Blue Ash police station.

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I was running from post to pillar,

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I didn't know what happened.

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He sold the restaurant.

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We were kicked out of the restaurant.

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What happened?

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My life became from bad to worst.

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I didn't know whom to contact.

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Because he's always tell me

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undercover cops come,

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or immigration department
comes to the restaurant,

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and so don't talk to any Americans.

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So then all these things transformed,

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and we didn't know what to do.

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We got re-victimized.

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I got re-victimized at another place.

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He hired a guy to shoot me.

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And I could see, he threatened me that,

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"I'm going to kill you."

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With this, I surely say
that I saw the movie

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The Good, The Bad, The
Ugly of Clint Eastwood

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when I was in India.

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So it's so exciting when you see blood,

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and when you see gunshot,
then it's big thriller.

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It's a big movie.

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But when somebody threatens you literally

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and you can see it and he mean it,

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that he's gonna kill you.

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So one day, I was talking
to my wife in the afternoon.

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I was so traumatized, and
I was telling my wife,

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"You know that I'm not going to live.

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"And I'm going to die."

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My younger son was playing
on the floor on the corridor,

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so I always tell,

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"Do not be scared, what the child speaks.

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"But be scared what the
child sees and hears."

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So in few seconds, my son
comes and taps me on my back.

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And I look at him.

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He says, "Dahlu, if you die,
who takes care of my school?

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"What will happen to me?"

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That is when it hit me that
I need to do something.

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If I die, he dies.

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If I die, my wife dies.

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And so I thought, "I got to live.

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"Come what may."

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And that is what gave
me the determination,

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the willpower, and God's blessing

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that I need to come out of this situation.

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And I had no clue that
how I'm going to do this.

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How I was going to make it happen.

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Eventually my kids went to the FBI.

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So I have a lot of respect for DoD,

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all the delegates sitting here,

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the law enforcement agencies.

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Because the FBI agent was her first case,

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she was doing a case on labor trafficking,

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that one on an H-1B visa.

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She never did a case on that.

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But what really amazed me
was that I was so scared,

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that I was so scared
to talk to an FBI agent

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because I was told that I'll get deported.

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I'll get jailed.

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That was all that thing going on.

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But, the FBI agent did her investigation.

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She did everything,

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but one thing I do,

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I respect all the law
enforcement agencies here,

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sitting here.

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Is that, once she came to my house,

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she came to know that my wife was engaged,

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or involved into some sexual abuse.

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So she came with a deputy
or somebody to talk to,

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because she merely got

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the information from the witnesses.

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But it was so emotional for us.

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And then later on,

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after some more interaction with her,

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she's always come to my house.

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And then she realized
that I was not talking,

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because I think law enforcement
agencies can read us,

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very well, our body language.

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And then she told me that,

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she came and she went out
again, she came back in.

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And she looked into my eyes and she said,

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"Harold, I'm here to help you.

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"I'm not here to deport
you or to get you arrested.

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"I know that even if you work illegally."

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Or she said under the table,
she didn't say illegally.

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"But you are working under the table,

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"and taking money as a cash."

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And I was working in a store.

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And yes, I was getting paid cash.

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How I'm going to run my family?

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"I don't care.

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"But I'm here only to help you."

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But that touched me.

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I'll tell you one thing,

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when law enforcement agencies
talk like that to a victim,

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that you know, we're
only here to help you,

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and they understand the feelings,
emotions, and sentiments

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of a victim, then that changed me.

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Then I thought, oh, this
lady is coming to help me.

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She's not a law enforcement agency.

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Every time she came to me as a mother.

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Her nature, her passion.

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So that touched me.

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She was so caring.

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So then I started coming out,

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and started sharing and talking to her.

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Then things started changing for me.

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And eventually, we got the CP visa.

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I didn't know what was a CP visa,

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that's Continued Presence.

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Then I got the U visa,

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and then we got the
permanent residency card.

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But, the way that things went,
it was such a slow process.

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It was, whenever a law
enforcement agency comes to you,

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they are there only for maybe
a half an hour, or one hour.

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But how are we going to survive

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for the next couple of hours,

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or couple of days, or couple of weeks?

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The community of Cincinnati
helped us so much.

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And I know there some
people, like one day,

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we were taking food from a needy,

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a need place where they
give food to the family.

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And we're just walking
out, my wife and myself.

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There's a chaplain

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who used to come to our
restaurant regularly.

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He saw us.

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He say, "Hey, how are y'all?"

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We said, "We are fine."

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Then he said, "No, I don't
think y'all are fine."

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Well, then since you're like here,

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we are going to some parish
to get us some things.

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So he said, "Then what happened?"

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And I said, "The restaurant got closed

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"and we got kicked out."

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But there were four people,

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they stood in the middle of the road,

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hold their hands and pray for us.

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So I think those are the things

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that really changed our life,

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it's God's blessing.

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How perpetrators break you,
your dignity, your pride.

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Imagine you're a father,

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there are so many fathers here,

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so many men here, they all got kids.

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Think your kid is five your old.

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A perpetrator, he takes his hand

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and gives a full slap
in front of your child.

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What do you do?

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That is the most hopeless
situation for a father

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to go through that.

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To have seen your child hit

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or slapped for no rhyme or reason.

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You will not hit a child
even if it is not yours

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for no rhyme or reason.

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Even if there is some small reason,

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you will not slap him.

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But guess what,

41:15.330 --> 41:17.170
when you slap a child,

41:17.170 --> 41:21.010
the child will cry for
a couple of minutes.

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But for the dad or for the parent,

41:22.970 --> 41:25.530
it sticks lifelong.

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It doesn't go.

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But these are certain
things that transformed.

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And then I just didn't know
how to handle the situation

41:33.740 --> 41:37.000
but things started moving
and changing in my life.

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And then we decided that,

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I never wanted to be in
on this news channel.

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And they wanted to blur my face.

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But then I saw two people
die here, immigrants.

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And that is what changed me.

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Today, we buy a bottle of
water, we buy Starbucks coffee,

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but do you know in
Cincinnati where I lived

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or where I was being victimized,

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people sell human beings.

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Like I'm just giving you
example, Linda, he'll say,

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"Okay, yeah, Brenda, here
can take Harold for $25,000,"

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"or $50,000."

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That's what they do, and
I've seen this happen.

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And that is the reality.

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There's something when it's too accepted,

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that how this entire industry works.

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This industry, basically,
is very, very ruthless.

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And that is what changed me.

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I still remember one of my friends,

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he was from India, from Goa.

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He was working with me here,

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and these people,

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white people don't get caught.

42:32.400 --> 42:33.840
Whenever they're a victim
of labor trafficking,

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they move from one street to
another, one place to another,

42:35.840 --> 42:37.290
they're never at one place.

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So that's why most of the
cases do not get surfaced.

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It gets closed.

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They'll use them for
maybe a year, two years,

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and they move out.

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And what happens,

42:47.460 --> 42:49.370
anywhere in the case of labor trafficking,

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the perpetrator withhold the salary

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of minimum eight months.

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Why?

42:52.973 --> 42:54.337
Number one, the immigrant,

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whether he's from Mexico, India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Guatemala,

42:58.200 --> 42:59.330
he doesn't have a bank account.

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So the perpetrator say,

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"Okay I'm keeping the cash,

43:00.996 --> 43:02.057
"whenever you're going
back to your country

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"I'll give it to you."

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So slowly and gradually
he's in his clutches.

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So for eight months, salary
is not withhold with them.

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He says, "What do you need money for?"

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Any case of labor trafficking,

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whether it is restaurants, gas stations,

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convenience stores or motels,

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they give you accommodation next door,

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the perpetrator.

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So accommodations are available
nextdoor, why, what happens?

43:21.580 --> 43:25.403
Number one, labor is available
24 hours, seven days a week.

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Maybe it'll rain, shine or snow,

43:28.700 --> 43:31.560
you cannot say I cannot
come, you have to work.

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And then lodging, boarding is taken care.

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And then you don't have to pay any money,

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so they don't need any salary.

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So that is how this entire
thing continues over there.

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I have time?

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Okay, one minute?

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Okay. (laughs)

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So anyways, thank you very much.

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And I just, we were
saying that one minute.

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See, this is how a
person disguise himself.

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And he's 32 years old, act as 81-year-old,

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and this is about six months back

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and he got caught in Delhi.

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And that's how people come here.

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And that's what I do,

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I'm creating protection, prevention,

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education and empowerment in India.

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I just went to India in
the month of November.

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I did about 30 presentations there

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trying to educate people not to come here.

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But now this man is in the prison.

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And he was to come to New York

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and send 30 lakhs to his agent.

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That 30 lakhs is like $44,000.

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One lady paid 53 lakhs,
that is $75,000 in advance,

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for husband and a kid,
and she got deported

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after six months from Mexico.

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So these are real life true stories.

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And how a victim like
me obviously can become

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a victim of labor trafficking
or sex trafficking.

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In India, when I grew up in my village,

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these baby elephants,
they're very naughty,

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they're tied with a thick chain.

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So they try to run.

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So they try to run,
they bruise, they bleed.

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But this elephant thinks that
I cannot run, this elephant.

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But after five years, this same elephant

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has got so much power it can topple a car,

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it can break a wall, it can prune a tree.

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But the same elephant today,

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I was in India, I've seen it,

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they tie this big elephant

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with the same leg with a thin rope

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What the elephant does,

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it just lifts its leg up
and down, up and down.

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So the elephant thinks
that my leg is tied.

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But then that's all in the mind.

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So that's what happens
in the case of a victim

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of labor trafficking,
that is all in the mind.

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They just cannot do anything.

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So I started a nonprofit,
Eyes Open International.

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Basically I'm focusing in
India, Pakistan, Nepal.

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I started with India, next is Nepal.

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Basically, I'm working on
the prevention education.

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I have a GoFundMe page where
I'm raising to raise funds.

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And this other hotline number,

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so I always tell people to
save it on their phones.

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Wherever I go so I have it on my phone,

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one of the human
trafficking hotline numbers.

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And this is my contact details.

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And in the end,

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I'd just like to end with one note.

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Is that, you know,

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do not tell Pentagon

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how big the perpetrators in your life.

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You know since I'm in the Pentagon

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I was just thinking when
I was coming, you know,

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but tell the perpetrator,

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how big the Pentagon is in your life,

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the Department of Defense.

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So thank you very much,

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I know what a great job you're doing.

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So Vande Mataram and God bless America.

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That you very much.

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(audience clapping)

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- Thank you so much, Mr. D'Souza.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is now my honor

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to introduce the acting director of the

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Pentagon Force Protection
Agency, Dr. Daniel P. Walsh.

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As the acting director,
Dr. Walsh is responsible

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for providing full range of services

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to protect people,
facilities, infrastructure

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and other resources at
the Pentagon Reservation

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and in DoD-occupied facilities

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in the National Capital Region.

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Within this scope, he
exercises the authorities

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of the Secretary of Defense with respect

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to force protection,
security and law enforcement.

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Dr. Walsh joined the agency
in 2008 as a scientist

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in the Chemical,
Biological and Radiological

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and Nuclear and Explosive Directorate.

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He previously served as
the assistant director

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of Security, Integration and Technology.

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Chief of Science and Technology Office,

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and a special assistant
to the agency director.

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Prior to his tenure at the Pentagon

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Force Protection Agency, he served

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as a hazardous materials and
weapons of mass destruction

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specialist for the New York City

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Department of Environmental Protection,

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supervising response,
analytical, operations

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for hazardous material
incidents throughout the city.

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Dr. Walsh, you have the floor.

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- Thank you.

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(audience clapping)

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I just wanna get some
thank yous out of the way.

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Thank you so much, that was, thank you.

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It's very impactful.

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Sharing with us, I just wanna,

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on behalf of everybody here
I just wanna thank you.

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Thank you so much, Mr.
Booth, for you and your staff

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for letting us participate and partner

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with you on this.

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You know, sometimes in the security

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and law enforcement world,

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they say it's a thankless job,

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but the truth is we get

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to police an incredible community here.

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So you guys are pretty good,

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when you see someone in uniform,

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you say thank you to us quite often.

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So in the policing world
we're pretty lucky.

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But the CTIP folks, you don't
get to wear that uniform

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all the time and get
recognized, I think, enough.

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And you deal with difficult stuff, right?

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Just moral failings and just
the depths of human tragedy

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every day, and sometimes
we get to go blow off steam

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at the range, I don't
know if you ever get to.

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(audience laughs)
So, you should.

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Maybe you're welcome
down, to come down there.

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For all you do, just thank you so much.

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Your whole staff.
(audience clapping)

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Just one last thank you is
for Roseanne and Amanda there

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who helped support this.

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They've been really busy,
they put on great events,

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so I just wanted to thank them.

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And just one final thought.

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I think it's appropriate as a
law enforcement organization

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that we're partnering in this issue,

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but it's not just a law
enforcement challenge.

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This is whole of society
human problem, right?

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And this is global.

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And when you said it,

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about the red flags with
the story about your kids,

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I have kids the same age as yours,

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when you said that you came here.

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So it particularly struck me.

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And you see those little sends messages

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about people who leave their
lunchboxes in the bathrooms,

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don't go by the bathroom
until we clear it.

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And we push out those

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See Something, Say Something messages,

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and maybe this week you're thinking about

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the folks doing the pre-operational stuff

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from our adversary overseas,

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or you're looking for
that suspicious package.

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But there is a See
Something, Say Something

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and an education challenge for this topic,

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for each and every one of us.

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For our spouses, for our families.

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You may have people in your family

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who are nurses, teachers, social workers,

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whatever, this is
happening under our noses

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every day as you drive
around northern Virginia,

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as you drive around this country.

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You can do those computer-based trainings

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and you can do this one on the computer

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and just kinda click
your way through like,

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maybe sometimes you do for
some of those other ones.

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Maybe you don't absorb it.

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I don't think you can listen to someone

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like yourself and just ignore that.

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And every year, I feel
honored to be able to partner

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with you all,

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and I'm shocked by how much I can learn,

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and what we can learn from sharing.

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So thank you again, thank you all,

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have a good day.

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(audience clapping)

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- Thank you, Dr. Walsh.

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Ladies and gentlemen, your attention today

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meets the Combating Trafficking in Persons

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training requirement.

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Please ensure that you
pick up a certificate

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upon exiting the auditorium and submit it

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to your training officials or coordinator

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if you wish to get
credit for this session.

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As we close our program,
we would like to show

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a Combating Trafficking
in Persons video trailer

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about the General Awareness Training,

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our specialized training for
investigative professionals

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and acquisition professionals.

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And also our DoD Education
Activities staff.

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- [Narrator] On any given
day, 25 million people

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are victims of modern slavery,

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also known as human trafficking.

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The Department of Defense supports

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the U.S. government's
zero-tolerance policy

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regarding this crime, which
violates the human rights

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of its victims and
jeopardizes the DoD's mission.

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Since 2002, the DoD has been fighting

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to break up this industry
by evaluating the problem,

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pushing for new initiatives,
raising awareness

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and equipping and enabling
all members to take action.

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The DoD launched online learning solutions

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to help combat trafficking in persons

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through joint knowledge online, or JKO,

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available worldwide, anytime, anywhere

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for four distinct and important audiences.

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For all DoD personnel,
General Awareness Training.

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This online course raises awareness

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of the pervasiveness of human trafficking,

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explains how trafficking
affects mission readiness,

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and encourages each learner

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to claim their role in the fight.

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For investigative personnel,
from military police

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to any personnel who conduct inquiries,

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such as audits, assessments, inspections,

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investigations or evaluations.

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Specialized training on how to respond

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to trafficking in person situations.

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This online course uses scenarios

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and case studies to
teach what to look for,

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where to look,

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how to respond when
trafficking is uncovered,

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and how its victims are affected.

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It also teaches what laws apply

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in different trafficking situations.

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For DoD contractors and defense
acquisition professionals,

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online training to explain their roles

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and their obligations
to fight trafficking.

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This online course provides information

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on the Combating Trafficking
in Persons language

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that must be included
in all DoD contracts,

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steps to prevent trafficking violations,

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and what to do if a violation
of the zero-tolerance

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policy is discovered.

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For DoD education professionals,
targeted online learning

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to fight the spread of human trafficking

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into DoD schools, at home and abroad.

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Educators are learning
about the vulnerabilities

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of DoD schoolchildren
to human trafficking,

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as well as the risk
factors and warning signs,

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and their role in combating trafficking.

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Each individual in the
Department of Defense

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can make a difference and
potentially save a life

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by becoming aware of human
trafficking indicators

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and knowing how to report them.

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The DoD is committed to
continuously expanding

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and improving the training it provides

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on Combating Trafficking in Persons.

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- Mr. D'Souza wants to come
and have a parting word,

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so we're gonna make a
change to our program

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to have Harold come back
and say a couple words.

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Thank you.

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- Thank you.

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But I just wanted to
share, on a happy note,

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that all the good work that you do,

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the pure reflection,

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the boys had, who I had
when I was very very young,

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I would like to introduce
my younger son is here.

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Rohan D'Souza, can you
stand up please? (laughs)

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(audience clapping)

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So he's my inspiration,
and I always believe

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that when y'all saved
me it was not one life,

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you had saved four lives.

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So my son, he's working for Apple now,

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he graduated one year early
without any student loan,

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so that makes me happy.

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He's a State Champion for tennis,

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so we are just hoping that he
gets to play in the Wimbledon.

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He's been a ball boy for Serena Williams,

55:36.540 --> 55:38.190
Djokovic, Federer for the last 10 years

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at Cincinnati Masters.

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My wife,

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she works for General Electric
Credit Union in Cincinnati,

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but today she's in Columbus
doing a presentation

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on human trafficking at the
attorney general's office.

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So it's the first time the
attorney general's office

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is doing a human trafficking
conference in Columbus,

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so she could not come.

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And my oldest son, he
works for Tesla in Chicago.

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And he'll be completing
in this April six years.

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So I just wanted to thank, you know,

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and thank each one of you for inviting me

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and all the wonderful job
you do for all the immigrants

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and I have to thank Dr. Gopal also

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for coming all the way from Chicago

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and everyone being here.

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Thanks a lot.

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God bless America.

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(audience clapping)

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- Most people are familiar
with sex trafficking

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as we just heard from our speaker,

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labor trafficking happens around as too.

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Forced labor, debt bondage
are two common forms

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of trafficking.

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Forced labor is also known
as involuntary servitude.

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According to the Department of State,

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forced labor is the biggest sector

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of trafficking in the world.

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This final short video we wanna show you

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is what you might see

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in DoD dealing with labor trafficking.

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It is mainly to point out
that it's not something

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that you can just write about.

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It is something that
you have to look into,

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look beneath the surface to find it.

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You can't just go out and do a audit

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and an inspection without actually going

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and talking to the people
and looking at the job sites

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and where they live.

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So with that,

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so I'm gonna show this last video.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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we all need to be aware of the indicators

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of both sex and labor trafficking.

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This concludes our event,

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thank you for attending.

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Please rise for the departure

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of the senior officials.