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Title: Tucked in the hills of the smallest state in Mexico is a city called Tenancingo. (Sex Trafficking illegals)
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Published: Jun 16, 2014
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Post Date: 2014-06-16 23:36:17 by Horse
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A town of just ten thousand people, Tenancingo has thrived for the past half-century thanks to a lucrative family business. Grandfathers passed the trade down to fathers, and fathers in turn, to their sons -- that business is sex trafficking. But the prostitutes involved in their scheme aren’t willing participants. Many are from rural and indigenous villages throughout Mexico, and are kidnapped, trapped, and seduced in a trade the sons of Tenancingo have been perfecting for decades. Once in the U.S, the girls are forced to see as many as 60 clients a day. These men, typically called “Johns,” pay about $35 for 15 minutes of sex, according to Sanctuary for Families, a nonprofit advocacy group for sex-trafficking victims. The money is then wired back to Tenancingo, where mansions with lavish courtyards and tawdry cupolas line the streets. There’s a lot of debate around just how many sex slaves there are in the U.S. and how many are from this small city. Whether Tenancingo sends dozens, hundreds, or thousands of women a year to the U.S., there’s undoubtedly one place where many of them are sent: Queens, N.Y. There’s no doubt that pimping is one of the most lucrative illicit trades -- it’s also one where the criminals involved face the least risk of being caught by law enforcement or facing prosecution. The United Nations says that human trafficking is the third most profitable illicit industry, after drugs and counterfeiting. But in the U.S., local sheriffs and police departments spend 22 times more on fighting drugs than on fighting human trafficking, based on our review of government data. And 92 percent of sex trafficking cases are handled by local and state authorities, according to government estimates. There’s a booming sex slave industry in the U.S. and Tenancingo is at its core. “What we're seeing in New York is that [Tenancingo is] the major point of recruitment and training of pimps and it is a tradition that dates back two or three generations where now we see grandfathers have taught sons and their grandsons the art of pimping,” said Lori Cohen, an attorney at Sanctuary for Families who has worked with dozens of victims of the Tenancingo rings. How much can a Tenancingo pimp make in Queens? Based on our estimates, a pimp can make half a million dollars a year with three women working for him, each seeing an average of 20 clients a day, each for 15 minutes. We’ve based these annual profits and expenses of a Tenancingo pimp from numbers provided by Polaris Project, Sanctuary for Families and Harvard researcher on sex trafficking, Siddhartha Kara. Tenancingo pimps often rely on a “driver-delivery” model, in which they pay an associate -- often called a “ridero” -- to pick up and drop off the victim at houses, where she “services” clients. The girls headquartered in Queens are sent to every borough in New York City, all the way to the farms in upstate New York, to have sex with migrant workers. They’ve also been “delivered” to apartment buildings in New Jersey and Connecticut. The ridero can make somewhere between one third and one half of the total profit from the tricks. The rest, we’re told, goes back to the pimp. In the past, the driver has also been tasked with handing out “chica cards” to advertise the ring’s women. The cards would prominently feature pictures of naked women and a phone number, which Johns can call and arrange appointments. In recent years, the cards have become less common as authorities have cracked down on their use, we’re told by Department of Homeland Security investigator Elvin Hernandez. 
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