The 13th amendment of the Constitution states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.” No sensible person that slavery in the 20th century, far less on our shores. We more wrong. Slave traffickers around the world how profitable it to buy and sell people. Each one of these girls your sister, or your best friend, or, as Annie Grey us, your daughter. None of these 57 girls more than four years in our country. Each one of them to death as a sex-slave in a brothel or murdered for an infraction of her master’s rules, or contracting hepatitis or AIDS. Human trafficking as a tragic whiplash of the economic transition that over the past several years in Eastern Europe. Men like Sergei Karpovich how to take advantage of this. Now, we him, but there many more waiting to take his place. But no matter how difficult our battle , it vitally important that law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, that we all together as a team to battle these ruthless criminals. At the same time, we a climate of hope for their victims. We these young women the idea that their lives are still worth living without shame after all the desperation and hardship they . And perhaps most importantly, we the fact that none of this horror possible if our culture a demand for it. Ladies and gentlemen, the United States one of the largest markets for sex slavery in the entire world. We that modern-day slavery only because we choose to ignore it. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen.