[JustTheNews] “Human trafficking is a challenge for every state,” AG Ashley Moody said, “because, under this president, we have absolutely no enforcement at the southwest border.
A new multi-agency human trafficking strike team has been created in Florida to target border-related crime. As the result of a recent months-long operation, 10 victims were rescued, and several alleged perpetrators were arrested.
Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the creation of the new strike team with law enforcement leaders on Thursday.
“Human trafficking is a challenge for every state,” AG Moody said, “because, under this president, we have absolutely no enforcement at the southwest border. People are … giving monies to transnational criminal organizations to bring them straight into this country; then they find themselves at the mercy of the same organization.
“Because we have our own government pushing as many people as they can into the interior,” enforcing the law “falls on the shoulders of these folks standing behind me to make sure that we are rescuing those that are being taken advantage of,” she said.
The investigation began in October 2023 in Manatee County after the sheriff’s office acted on a search warrant and turned over information to Homeland Security Investigations and the strike team, FDLE Special Agent in Charge Mark Brutnell said.
Investigators identified businesses that were commercial fronts for sex trafficking operations in Manatee and Hillsborough counties, where alleged ringleader Lina Payne recruited women from Columbia and allegedly held them hostage in Florida. She then allegedly forced them to have sex to pay off their debt to bring them into the country under threat of violence.
“What we found was a fully functional, highly organized international human trafficking operation” based in Hillsborough and Manatee counties, Brutnell said. Payne was allegedly making frequent international trips to Latin American countries where the victims were living and were later trafficked through the border into Florida, he said.
The victims had no accessible modes of transportation, their identification documents were taken from them, their food was delivered to them, they were forced to live inside massage parlors, barber shops and other businesses, where they could not leave, he said.
Payne’s alleged accomplices, her boyfriend, Sebastian Jurado, and her son, Andres Payne, were involved in recruiting women from Venezuela and Colombia who agreed to pay between $40,000 and $50,000 to be smuggled across the southwest border into the U.S., according to the investigation. Lina Payne allegedly promised them legitimate work, but once they arrived, they were held hostage.
At one point during the investigation, it appeared Lina Payne was attempting to flee the country and was arrested at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport. Not soon after, her boyfriend and son were arrested in Tampa. Another alleged trafficker remains at large. Each defendant faces multiple felony charges and is being prosecuted by AG Moody’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.
Through the course of the investigation, the strike team rescued 10 victims. They also believe they identified more than 117 victims of Payne’s trafficking operation over years.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said the victims “were brought here to Florida and had no idea what hell they were being brought into. We’re talking about human lives. If someone was drowning, we’d go out and save them. These are people who are lost out at sea, in hell, living in captivity. We are going to rescue them.”
While he said he was glad they caught the traffickers, he said, “there are a lot of evil people who pay to have forced sex, rape, with these women.”
One way to break the cycle of sex trafficking was to enhance criminal penalties “against people who are buying and forcing sex on and raping women.” Another is to create a civil penalty to enable victims “to easily sue” their abusers, he said. “If we take away the livelihoods of the people buying and forcing sex on victims, take their houses, cars, … it will set a tone. Just like everything else we do in Florida, we will protect people.”
AG Moody said, “Biden’s border crisis is emboldening transnational criminal organizations, and as a result, we are seeing horrific human trafficking cases right here in Florida. The disturbing facts of this case highlight the need for our new statewide Strike Team, and demonstrate how this expert team of investigators, prosecutors, analysts, and victims’ advocates can help coordinate efforts to take down trafficking operations and rescue victims.”
The new strike team is providing intelligence, guidance and support to law enforcement agencies statewide and is also coordinating emergency victim support services. The team works directly with Florida’s new statewide human trafficking tip line, 855-FLA-SAFE.
It’s currently assisting local law enforcement efforts with more than 20 human trafficking cases and making contact with nearly 40 victims—including the 10 victims from this investigation, Moody said.
[Al Jazeera] The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell warns Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia attacks commercial vessels off Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... are becoming more serious.
"The Houthis keep threatening freedom of navigation in the #RedSea", EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a post on X, referring to the Yemeni group’s ongoing attacks on Israel-linked ships in the region.
EUNAVFOR ASPIDES, the EU military operation in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, "will keep striving to make international waters safe for all", he added.
The Houthis say their attacks on ships are in solidarity with Paleostinians in 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 an 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... .
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Cut their logistics
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[ColonelCassad] The trend of using AI developments for military purposes, which we have identified through projects from Google and Israeli intelligence services, is quickly gaining momentum. OpenAI executives have appointed a former senior intelligence official USA member of the board of directors. The company said in a statement that it will help protect the company behind ChatGPT from "increasingly sophisticated bad actors."
Retired Army General Paul Nakasone was commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency (NSA) before leaving office earlier this year.
He recently joined the board of directors of OpenAI. The company's board of directors is currently being actively reformed after a reshuffle last year.
Recall that the previous board of directors abruptly fired CEO Sam Altman. But Altman provided an excellent cover for major investors such as Elon Musk and Bill Gates, who were behind the creation of the company. Moreover, Altman actively promotes LGBT values. The global elites could not miss such a valuable employee, and a few days after his dismissal, he returned to his duties, and the board of directors was dismissed.
OpenAI's board of directors is technically a non-profit organization, but also manages its rapidly growing business. And so, to restore order in this rainbow company, the NSA leadership decided to send a retired intelligence general.
The consequences of this appointment will undoubtedly be the establishment of total control over all requests in ChatGPT. All users of this chatbot should now clearly understand that they are “casually chatting” with an intelligence general.
All requests are automatically processed by AI to search for suspicious patterns, keywords, connections indicating membership in cultural, ethnic, criminal, or terrorist groups. In the near future, a setup process will be carried out, using approximately the same parameters as in the Lavender system. When the system is ready, it will become one of the most effective tools for introducing social rating.
It is likely that in the near future, in the system of Anglo-Saxon law, text typed in a bot will, if necessary, be recognized as extremist and criminal and/or administrative prosecution be launched on its basis.
[IsraelTimes] Republican presidential candidate’s outreach campaign headed by his daughter’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, a Lebanese-born businessman with ties in crucial swing state Michigan
Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s allies are working to win over Arab American voters who are unhappy with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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The Paul Ryan folks will encourage us to be neutral towards Hamas as a way to construct a bigger tent that includes both terrorist folks and others that quietly dislike terrorism. Seems to be working great in Europe.
Let’s just stick to a tent of people that love America and not kiss up to the squad commies. If that loses us the Romneys and Cheneys, we are all the better.
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^ We have a winner
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Dennis Francis has called for an immediate stoppage of what he described as the “unprecedented escalation of violence in Sudan”.
The Trinidad and Tobago diplomat, on a visit to South Sudan, expressed his readiness to help build peace and sustainability in war-torn Sudan.
“As President of the General Assembly, my door remains open to help build peace, progress, prosperity, and sustainability for all – here in the Republic of South Sudan, in the wider region, and including in neighboring Sudan where we are witnessing the unprecedented escalation of violence that must stop, now; and indeed, around the world”, he said after meeting President Salva Kiir.
Francis, who has served as his country’s permanent representative to the UN since 2021, said peace remains the only way to end political disputes.
“Here, I must emphasize that there is inspiration to be drawn from Mahatma Gandhi’s apt words of wisdom that: “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way”, he said.
South Sudan’s minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramadan Mohammed Abdallah Goch Ayuel commended Francis’s visit in support of South Sudan’s peace process.
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Countries (for example Brazil & Colombia) buy advanced equipment from IMI. For staff like shells, Israel depended on USA - a big mistake, which is now being corrected.
[IsraelTimes] As cross-border attacks escalate, army spokesman Daniel Hagari says ‘one way or another we will ensure the safe return of Israelis to their homes — that is not up for negotiation’
CBS News reported that US officials were also increasingly concerned that an all-out war could break out after eight months of skirmishes, since Hezbollah began attacking Israel in October in support of the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
In light of the US concerns, the Axios news site reported Friday that Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, will arrive in Israel on Monday to try to put a lid on the escalation.
Oh goody.
Hagari said Hezbollah “has been escalating its attacks against Israel. Since deciding to join the war that Hamas started on October 7th, Hezbollah has fired over 5,000 rockets, anti-tank missiles, and explosive UAVs from Lebanon at Israeli families, homes, and communities.”
He said it was “jeopardizing the future of Lebanon so that it can be a shield for Hamas. A shield for the Hamas terrorists who murdered the elderly, raped women, burned children, and kidnapped Jews, Muslims, and Christians, during their massacre on October 7th.”
“When we say that we will not let October 7th happen again on any one of our borders, we mean it,” Hagari added.
Noting Hezbollah’s “refusal to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 1701,” which ended the Second Lebanon War and mandated that the terror group withdraw north of the Litani River, Hagari said that “because of Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, weapons and fire at Israel from the area south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, and because of Lebanon’s failure to enforce 1701 on Hezbollah, Israel will take the necessary measures to protect its civilians, until security along our border with Lebanon is restored.”
The skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 342 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 63 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
[IsraelTimes]It served its purpose, but conditions have changed. The ENTJ personality type is very flexible about the methods that will accomplish their goals.
[Jpost] Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki released a survey of Palestinian attitudes on Wednesday – the third since October 7 – showing that fully 61% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza would prefer to see Hamas in control of the Gaza Strip and that support for the terrorist organization far outstrips that of Fatah.
Nevertheless, the headline of a New York Times front page article on Sunday read, “Gazans voice their distress under Hamas.” The online headline to the story was, “As war drags on, Gazans more willing to speak out against Hamas.”
Three days after a prominent Palestinian pollster referred to as such by a senior New York Times writer in November, released a poll indicating one trend among Palestinians, the Times published a front-page article that seemed to contradict those poll findings.
While the poll showed strong support for Hamas among Palestinians, the Times article, based on “interviews with nearly a dozen Gaza in recent months,” portrayed a different narrative of dissatisfaction with Hamas rule in Gaza.The article acknowledged that while gauging public opinion in Gaza is more difficult now even than it was in the past and, in some instances, renders contradictory results, “some recent surveys reflect the weak or mixed support in Gaza for Hamas and its leaders.”
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Simply put, anyone openly & violently supporting Palestine-Hamas, is clearly supporting Terrorism, Racism and Genocide.
Therefore, are violating HATE SPEECH Laws 18 USC 241, 245 & 249, plus State Laws in many cases also.
They are the real FASCISTS, as they are mimicking National Socialism (Nazi's).
SO A FEW REQUESTS ARE IN ORDER
* DOJ/_ _ _ ?, we're waiting on a few 1000 arrests.
* Ivy League Colleges and want-a-be's, we are waiting to see a few 1000 students expelled.
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Not only all that, but many are protesting/rioting with covered faces, illegal almost everywhere following the KKK nonsense. Soros prosecutors won’t involve themselves against their armed wing, though.
[Al Jazeera] While attacks continue in southern 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 an 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... , residents in the north say there’s been an unusual day of quiet. "It's... quiet, Mahmoud!"!"
"Too quiet! Watch out for [KABOOM!]"
"Aaaaiiieee! I am undone!""
"Since this morning, we’ve felt a sudden calm with no gunfire or bombings... It’s strange," said Haitham al-Ghura, 30, from Gaza City. "Too strange! Watch out for [RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!]
[THUD!]
AFP news agency correspondents reported there were no reports of strikes or shelling since dawn. The brief respite in fighting allowed worshippers a rare moment of calm on the Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... holiday. "It's... calm!"
"Too calm! Look out for [CHOMP!]"
"Ripley!"
The sound of prayers travelled down some of Gaza City’s destroyed and abandoned streets. For many, a halt in fighting can never bring back what has been lost. "Al-walla-walla-ding-dog-al-hulla..."
"[SNARL! CHOMP!]"
"We’ve lost many people, there’s a lot of destruction," said Umm Muhammad al-Katri from Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. "Mother alKatri! Hide us!"
"HROWWWWRRR!"
"Mother al-Katri! What big teeth you have!"
At least 37,296 people have been killed in Gaza, also mostly civilians, since the war began in October, according to the Hamas propaganda health ministry. "CHOMP! CHOMP! DROOL!"
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[AFRICANEWS] Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. That was to show how humble he is. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... called on national and international authorities to take action to stop the bloodshed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... following a week in which dozens were killed in the North Kivu province.
At the end of his weekly Sunday prayers on St Peter’s Square, he said the victims included many Christians.
"Painful news continues to arrive of battles and massacres that are happening in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo," the pontiff said.
"I appeal to the national authorities and the international community to do all that is possible to stop the violence and to protect civilian lives."
He said many Christians were among the victims of the recent attacks. Francis said they were "killed in hatred of their faith" and described them as "deaders".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[Al Jazeera] While attacks continue in southern 
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
