[FoxNews] Migrants are threatened with violence, controlled through fentanyl addiction, safe house founder says
Heartbreaking images of minors at the southern border—alone and clutching nothing but a piece of paper—have become tragically familiar. According to border patrol data, since President Biden took office in 2021, nearly 540,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the southern border. Many of these children fall prey to sex traffickers, facing unimaginable conditions and exploitation.
Fox News recently spoke with a 20-year-old sex trafficking survivor, whose identity we agreed to conceal for his safety. He still lives in fear that his captors will find him. Trafficked from South America to Mexico and then across the border, he was finally rescued at the age of 18 and brought to Bob's House of Hope.
Bob’s House of Hope is the first safe house in the country dedicated specifically to male sex trafficking survivors. The victim shared harrowing details of his experience: trafficked six to eight times a day, beaten, and threatened with death if he dared to speak out.
"I saw good people die," he said.
Bob Williams, the founder of the safe house, was inspired to create this refuge after his own experiences.
"They just feel that it just happens to girls and women," Williams said. "And that's the problem. That's the stigma that we have to change. The fact is that we believe up to 50% of human trafficking victims are boys and men."
Bob’s House of Hope welcomes both U.S. citizens and migrants. He works with law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and FBI.
"As a survivor, I said we are going to take anybody because these kids that are migrants are protected under the Federal Sex Trafficking Act," Williams explained.
Shockingly, many victims at Bob’s House of Hope have been trafficked by their own families, viewed as nothing more than dollar signs.
"Most of these kids are trafficked by somebody they know, whether it's an uncle, a neighbor, or someone else," Williams noted.
Williams describes a disturbing cycle: many migrants are labor trafficked during the day and then forced into sex trafficking at night.
A common question he says he hears is, "Why can’t the boys escape?" He explains that not only are they threatened with violence, but they are also controlled through addiction, specifically fentanyl.
"This fentanyl problem is so serious that they hook these young people on drugs," he said. "That, combined with the fear of threats against their families, is controlling."
A recent Office of Inspector General report revealed that ICE lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors in just the past few years. Williams expresses little doubt that many of these children have been trafficked.
"We know that a lot of these children were sold to gangs or trafficking groups by their families," he stated. "Predators prey on vulnerable kids. We had a case where a young man was trying to reunite with his family in Florida and was picked up by a gang under the guise of providing a ride to Miami. But that ride never materialized."
The mission of Bob’s House of Hope is to help heal the trauma these young men have experienced. The program lasts four years, offering housing, a safe space with therapy, animals, and education.
After completion, the goal is for them to transition to independent living, equipped with a car, a job, and the opportunity to pursue college.
Landon Dickeson, the chief operating officer of Bob's House of Hope and a therapist, sheds light on the challenges these young migrants face.
"From birth, they were often rejected by their parents and grandparents, frequently sold for money to be brought to the United States for further abuse," Dickeson explained. "They arrive here confused, don’t speak the language, and struggle to navigate our systems, making them incredibly vulnerable."
The survivor we spoke to expressed gratitude for the sense of family and comfort he has found at the safe house, and hope for a better life.
"All I can say is don’t lose hope, don’t give up. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel," he said.
Williams believes that alongside tightening border security, there must be harsher penalties for traffickers and complicit family members, as well as increased funding for programs like his that support victims.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Tom Homan, incoming head of ICE, has already said his final word on that subject. I’m looking forward to the shockwave after the first arrests, to be followed by rapid capitulation.
BREAKING: Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says his department will not participate in immigration enforcement.
"Any participation in immigration enforcement would have a chilling effect on our commitment to bias-free, community-oriented policing." pic.twitter.com/mA0g64efSa
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I'd be completely fine if we wished to sell or trade Minnesota. I know that would be seen as "collective punishment" since the more rural parts would pay for the sins of the twin cities, but there's a price to be paid for allowing evil to flourish.
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[KavkazUzel] The head of an organized human trafficking group received 13 years in prison in Stavropol, the prosecutor's office reported.
According to the department, in 2019, a resident of Stavropol created a criminal community of four organized groups that operated in the Izobilnensky, Trunovsky, Shpakovsky districts and in the city of Nevinnomyssk.
In October 2021, in the village of Verkhnerusskoye, the defendant met a man who was in a difficult situation and needed money. He moved him to Mikhailovsk and took his documents, promising work and free housing. Then the convicted person entered into a purchase and sale agreement and transferred the man to a livestock farm, the Stavropol Territory Prosecutor's Office reported.
A resident of Stavropol was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of Russia (management of a structural unit (organized group) and Part 3 of Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (human trafficking). The court sentenced him to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony. The organizer of this criminal group was previously convicted. The case against the rest of its members is pending in court, according to a statement on the department's website.
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[KavkazUzel] Seven people, including three organizers of the riots, have been declared wanted in connection with the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport. 28 cases against 135 defendants have been sent to court.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, today the Soviet District Court of Stavropol Krai sentenced five more residents of Dagestan in the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport; they received from seven to eight years of imprisonment.
Mass riots at Makhachkala airport occurred on October 29, 2023, due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots, including nine police officers. 1,200 people were brought to administrative responsibility. What happened at Uytash airport and how the investigation is proceeding is described in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Case of the pogrom at Makhachkala airport".
Seven people have been put on the wanted list following the riots at the Makhachkala airport, including three organizers, the Russian Investigative Committee reported.
"Seven individuals have been placed on the wanted list, including three organizers of the crimes," TASS quoted the department's statement as saying.
A total of 142 people were involved in the riots, 28 cases were sent to court. "In relation to 135 defendants, the preliminary investigation has been completed, 28 criminal cases have been sent to court for consideration on the merits," the Investigative Committee added.
The message on the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of Russia also stated that on October 29, 2023, Ilya Ponomarev (Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev was recognized as a foreign agent), Abakar Abakarov, and Israil Akhmednabiyev posted publicly available publications in the Telegram messenger aimed at inciting hatred and hostility towards Israeli citizens among residents of the Republic of Dagestan and encouraging them to organize and participate in mass riots on this basis.
On February 17, 2024, relatives of the participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request for leniency.
On December 23, 2024, the Ust-Labinsk court sentenced eight defendants to prison terms of seven to eight years. On December 11, courts in Stavropol Krai also sentenced 10 residents of Dagestan to long terms. On January 10, a court in Georgievsk sentenced four residents of Dagestan to 10 years in prison in the airport riot case.
The five were sentenced to seven to eight years in a general regime penal colony.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, 27 criminal cases on the riots in Makhachkala were sent to the courts of Kuban and Stavropol. On September 26, 2024, the Novokubansky Court began considering the case of six residents of Dagestan. The defendants are Magomed Gadzhiev, Shamil Gadzhiev, Bashir Magomedaliev, Alibeg Ramazanov, Roosevelt Tagirov, Magomednabi Shaikhslamov. On December 16, 2024, the court sentenced Tagirov to eight years in prison, the rest of the defendants - to seven years.
Mass riots at Makhachkala airport occurred on October 29, 2023, due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots, including nine police officers. A total of 1,200 people were brought to administrative responsibility.
The Soviet District Court of Stavropol Krai sentenced five more residents of Dagestan. They were found guilty of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and of failing to comply with transport safety requirements causing major damage (Part 3 of Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the regional prosecutor's office reported.
According to the investigation and the court, on October 29, 2023, Jamal Gadzhiev, Vagab Gadzhiev, Vadim Gadzhiev, Nazhmutdin Gadzhiev and Alibek Gadzhiev took part in mass riots at the Uytash airport, accompanied by violence and destruction of property, on the basis of national and religious hatred and hostility towards Israeli citizens.
"The airport's property was destroyed and damaged to the amount of more than 24 million rubles, the requirements of transport and aviation security were violated, which led to a complete blocking of the airport's operations, the delay and cancellation of regular flights, and their redirection to other airports. Illegal actions were committed against 30 government officials, 23 of whom suffered bodily injuries of varying severity," the prosecutor's office said in a statement on its website.
The court sentenced five residents of Dagestan to imprisonment for a term of seven to eight years in a general regime penal colony.
[IsraelTimes] Australian authorities say a Sydney home that was previously owned by a senior Jewish community leader was vandalized and two cars set on fire overnight, amid a series of antisemitic incidents in the city in recent months.
The attack, the third targeting the Jewish community in Sydney in two months, happened on a property once owned by Alex Ryvchin, the co-chief executive of the Executive Council of the Australian Jewry, according to New South Wales Premier Chris Minns.
“These are horrifying antisemitic attacks… it is truly disgusting,” Minns says during a media conference.
“While police can’t categorically at this early stage of the investigation say that the attack and the residence are linked, clearly it would be a massive coincidence if they were not linked.”
Police say the house in the upscale suburb of Dover Heights was spray painted in red. There are no reports of injury.
“I tell you no fire, no vandalism, no paint, no threats, no intimidation will stop me. I will continue to fulfill my duty to my country, my community, and my people,” Ryvchin tells reporters after the incident, vowing to continue advocating for the Jewish community.
New South Wales state police minister Yasmin Catley vows to “hunt” down the perpetrators.
“We will find you and lock you up,” Catley says. “What we are seeing on our streets is totally un-Australian.”
#2
"Previously owned" - Unless that means something different in Australian, the house *was* owned by a Juice but is not now, which means the moron(s) vandalized the wrong house. Dollars to donuts, there was an internet search involved, most likely AI assisted. Score one for ChatGPT!
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The lesson there, SteveS, is not only Don’t be Jewish, but also do not buy from a Jew, even by accident, lest you be forced to share their pain. To be followed by functional bans on selling to and standing in the vicinity of those people. Ghettos and expulsions keep everyone safer.
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Just as a point of order, Australian Authorities, it was just a couple of years ago Australian meant locking people in their homes, citizens turning in their neighbors, taking children from parents, forced experimental medical procedures, and camps. Oh, and arrest warrants for sharing memes which disparage dear leader.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds at Times Square demonstration chant for ‘intifada,’ vow to keep protesting even after hostage agreement
Hundreds hailed the Paleostinian "resistance" at a rally in New York City’s Times Square marking the ceasefire-hostage deal on Thursday night.
The crowd carried signs that said "The movement continues until Paleostine is free," and "Resistance® against occupation is a human right."
The protesters chanted, "Resistance® is glorious, we will be victorious," and "Long live the intifada."
Speakers urged the crowd to continue its anti-Israel activism, despite the ceasefire announcement.
"Our work is only beginning," a speaker told the crowd. "Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... has taught us that the enemy’s defeat is clear and in sight."
Another hailed the "heroism of resistance" and the "Al Aqsa Flood," Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s name for the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.
"The price has been devastatingly high but so it has been in every revolution," she said. "Now is not the time to rest, but to reignite the fire."
"Today marks a new phase and we won’t let up after a ceasefire," she said, as snow dusted the crowd and police and passersby looked on.
New York City, folks.
Activists passed out fliers advertising another rally to mark the presidential inauguration on Monday.
At least two men in the crowd wore Hamas headbands, one of whom had a peace symbol stitched to his backpack. Another held a banner for Samidoun, a US-designated terrorist entity.
Full name Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. It was designated as an arm of the communist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, which took part in the 10/7 invasion of Israel. In North America they’re active in the college anti-Israel scene and general anti-Israel leftist activities, and are a legal subsidiary of the left-wing nonprofit Alliance for Global Justice — supported by the usual very rich Progressive individuals and networks with tens of millions of dollars.
The rally was organized by the Paleostinian Youth Movement, a US activist group, and attended by several socialist organizations such as the People’s Forum.
A handful of pro-Israel counter-protesters sang "the nation of Israel lives" in Hebrew and heckled the anti-Israel demonstrators across a police barricade.
Anti-Israel groups in New York also celebrated the ceasefire agreement in public statements.
"Gaza has won, Paleostine has won, resistance has won. Imperialism and Zionism has lost, the Democratic Party has lost, the future of the Zionist state continues to be eroded," said Within Our Lifetime, the most prominent anti-Israel activist group in the city.
Uh huh. You keep believing that, guys.
Anti-Israel activists have held hundreds of protests around New York City, starting on October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas attack.
[IsrelTimes] Three protesters have been arrested for disturbing the peace and damaging vehicles that were passing by an anti-hostage deal demonstration in Jerusalem, according to a police statement.
One of the suspects was arrested for spraying pepper spray at the protesters, police say.
The protesters also blocked traffic, including emergency vehicles, and set a fire in the middle of the road, according to the statement.
Opponents of the deal announced yesterday say its terms may endanger national security by releasing many convicted Palestinian terrorists while leaving some hostages in captivity and Hamas intact.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas member who participated in Nova festival massacre killed in overnight airstrike, IDF says, amid dozens of attacks across enclave that terror group claims endangered a hostage
The Israel Defense Forces struck dozens of terror targets across the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip Wednesday night and into Thursday, including a strike that killed a Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terrorist who participated in the massacre at the Nova music festival during the October 7, 2023, attack that started the ongoing war, the military said in a statement.
The Israeli strikes, which Hamas-aligned sources asserted killed at least 75 people and maimed hundreds more, came as Israel and Hamas appeared to be near a final agreement on a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, expected to begin on Sunday.
The agreement, if finalized, will have to be approved by the security cabinet and the full cabinet, which are expected to vote on the deal over the weekend.
According to an IDF statement Thursday, an overnight strike killed Hamas Nukhba force terrorist Muhammad Hashem Zahdi Abu al-Rous, who took part in the massacre at the music festival, where bully boyz murdered more than 360 people and took dozens more hostage into the strip.
In addition to killing Rous, the more than 50 strikes over the past day eliminated several other members of Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , and hit buildings used by the terror groups, weapon depots, rocket launchers, weapon manufacturing sites and observation posts, the IDF said.
The military added that it took numerous steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strikes, including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence. It also noted Hamas’s use of civilian institutions and the population as human shields.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Thursday that Israel "escalated" its strikes across the territory following the announcement of the deal; the agency said that at least 80 people were killed and hundreds more maimed. According to civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal, among those killed were 20 children and 25 women.
Bassal said teams recovered the bodies of five children after a strike in the northern town of Jabalia. AFP also reported first responders and residents searching through rubble late at night in Gaza City.
Ambulance driver Abu al-Rish told AFP that "after the ceasefire was announced and people were happy and joyful, a five-story building was targeted, with more than 50 people inside." He added that "shelling is continuing, targeting one house after another."
Hamas’s armed wing, meanwhile, said that the Israeli attacks were putting at risk hostages intended to be released in the deal. "Any aggression and shelling at this stage by the enemy could turn the freedom of a prisoner into a tragedy," the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said on Telegram.
Without offering details, Abu Obeida, front man for the Qassam Brigades, claimed that an Israeli strike had hit near a location where one of the women to be freed "in the first stage of the ceasefire deal was located."
The deal will see the terror group release Israelis it has held hostage in Gaza, and Israel will release more than a thousand Paleostinian security prisoners.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 407.
[NYPOST] A senior Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... leader praised the Oct. 7 terror attack as a ''miraculous military and security achievement,'' while promising ''justice'' for those who committed so-called ''genocide'' in a stunning speech just after the cease-fire deal was announced.
Khalil al-Hayya's televised remarks were delivered from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... on Wednesday just hours after a long-awaited and widely celebrated cease-fire deal was reached between Israel and Hamas.
''What occurred on October 7 — a miraculous military and security achievement by the elite Qassam Brigades — will remain a source of pride for our people,'' al-Hayya said in the speech, according to a translated video shared by Israeli diplomat David Saranga.
"It struck the heart of the enemy and will lead, Allah willing, to the restoration of all our rights," he said — accusing the Jewish state of "genocidal wars, Nazi crimes, and acts of inhumanity," according to the translation.
"We will never forget or forgive those who participate in this genocide ... Justice will be served to these criminals, even if delayed" he was quoted saying.
"Our enemy will see no moment of weakness or surrender from us."
The Hamas leader, who also serves as the terror group’s top negotiator, also hailed the cease-fire hostage deal as a "historic moment."
The breakthrough peace deal was struck Wednesday after an intense 96 hours of negotiations brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States. It was briefly scuttled Thursday due to a "last-minute blackmail attempt" by Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, but the deal got the go-ahead again later in the day.
The three-phase agreement will halt fighting for 42 days with 33 Israeli hostages incrementally freed from captivity in exchange for the release of hundreds of Paleostinians imprisoned by Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Police and the Shin Bet indicted a 16-year-old from southern Israel on charges of “security offenses inspired by terrorist groups,” says a police spokesman.
Law enforcement arrested him in December last year on suspicion of planning to join the Islamic State terror group and manufacture explosives to use in terror attacks.
Police say the suspect planned to move abroad and join ISIS, but also considered staying in Israel to create a “military squad that would carry out attacks against Jews.”
The youth also “carried out activities for the purpose of preparing explosives,” the police say.
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[Regnum] Syria has agreed to deploy UN peacekeeping forces in the buffer zone on the Golan Heights near the border with Israel, the head of the country's new administration, Ahmad al-Sharaa, said on January 16, Al-Jazeera reports.
"We are ready to accept UN forces in the buffer zone so that the situation returns to the state that existed before the Israeli advance," al-Sharaa said during talks with a Qatari delegation in Damascus.
He added that Israel no longer has arguments for advancing deeper into the buffer zone.
As reported by Regnum news agency, in early December the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began deploying troops in the buffer zone on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria.
The IDF has previously tightened restrictions in towns near the Syrian border. Schools were cancelled in four Druze villages, farmers were banned from cultivating fields in the area, and checkpoints were set up in the Golan Heights. The Times of Israel reported that the IDF intends to declare the state's border areas with Syria a "closed military zone."
Russia expects that the agreement between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will create conditions for sustainable stabilization of the situation in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said earlier.
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[IsraelTimes] Hundreds at Times Square demonstration chant for ‘intifada,’ vow to keep protesting even after hostage agreement
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Thursday that Israel "escalated" its strikes across the territory following the announcement of the deal; the agency said that at least 80 people were killed and hundreds more 
..always the voice of sweet reason...
[IsraelTimes] Police and the Shin Bet indicted a 16-year-old from southern Israel on charges of “security offenses inspired by terrorist groups,” says a police spokesman.
