Recently V4CR has just completed a three-part, multi-location,
filming in several active trafficking corridors, throughout Southern Arizona,
where thousands of illegal incursions into the United States occur every year.
These routes (that run through the county I live in) often involve adults and
children walking through the desert for six days straight. Many of these illegal immigrants do not
survive the journey. For the young children that are brought into the country
the desert can be unforgiving. Those that survive the long trek will face an
obligation to pay for their passage in the form of sex or labor for many years
to work off their debt to the cartels and traffickers.
For the last couple years,
I have lived out in the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by beautiful mountains and
on dirt roads, but smack-dab in the middle of drug and human trafficking
territory. In the morning when my
husband would take our dog and hike the mountains for time alone with God, he
would often find caches and camps of these immigrants. There would be abandoned sleeping bags,
garbage, radios, clothing, and shoes. It’s heartbreaking to see and I was
excited to hear that these veterans have a clear strategy for educating the
public, raising awareness through their Contraland Film, rescuing victims,
training law enforcement, investigating trafficking rings and putting predators
behind bars. They use their military experience to run covert operations all
over the country; working with law enforcement and border patrol agents. What a comfort to know that the fight against
trafficking is making progress through mighty men and women of prayer and
passion who are taking ground physically and spiritually, and that children who
are deep in the clutches of evil are being rescued.
