She says that the three primary offender countries, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras all are run by what are basically gang governments. The governments are affiliated with and run by the La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, MS-18 transnational criminal gangs which have a membership in excess of 70,000.
Judge Jeanine Pirro focuses an underreported aspect of the problem being created on our southern border and the issue of illegal immigration. The somewhat obscure problem is that of the human trafficking of young girls and boys who are being recruited, under duress, by violent gangs and cartels into the sex and drug trades.
The judge breaks the problem into three different but related areas. There are the mothers who are running from traffickers voluntarily with their children. There are mothers using coyotes who then engage young girls as part of a sex trafficking operation. Thirdly, there are cartels bringing male children in to use in their drug trafficking operations.
Her guest, Conchita Sarnoff of the Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking says that things are rough in the Central American countries and the gangs and cartels are in charge.
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