Message from mlacosta

[Anonymous]

The session on Human Trafficking was not new to me as well. I was born in Mexico and when my mother made a choice to come to the USA illegally she made plans to bring her children too. When I was seven, I was smuggled to the US and I remember quite vividly the stories that my older siblings told of people getting killed on their way to the "Norte" or the north. I didn't want to leave my grandmother, but I didn't have a say so in all of this. Over the years I learned that many who put themselves in the hands of complete strangers dodn't have the same luck that my family had.

This session only raised the awareness that no one is safe; not here or anywhere. My heart goes out to all the young men and women who are used as objects for someone else's pleasure.

A couple of weeks ago my eighteen-year-old son and I were watching Night Line and we were sickened to know that in our country there are young teenage boys and girls who are kidnapped and sold into prostitution and many of them don't get out of it alive.

The best thing we can do as teachers is to raise awareness on this issue and make sure that the student we come across know that they need to be cognizant of there surroundings and who they deal with.