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  Yep, Pretty simple.  Republican voters are just shitty people with shitty morals. 
  They look at an event like this and are amped by the creativity of making a point about "open borders" and think they are making liberals look bad by forcing them to acknowledge what a real problem illegal immigrants are.
  Nevermind the fact that they are bussing people around and dropping them off in the freezing cold with no plans for shelter or care just to make a political point.
context: Nothing owns the libs like abusing vulnerable minorities. >
  
  And committing Federal crimes for human trafficking. >
  
  It’s the same thing bro these people aren’t being taken willingly and all the previous people misplaced this way have said they were lied to. That’s like the definition of human trafficking bro, just because they’re taken to a Dem’s house to punk them or a dungeon it’s legit the same difference for these people. >
  
  No? You're the one comparing these.
  The scenario you're bringing up is composed of three crimes: kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual slavery (which is itself a composite of a bunch of individual crimes, but that's not the point here). You're the one grouping this particular composite crime under the banner of "human trafficking," when, in reality, human trafficking is simply a crime that happens within this composite, and can happen independently of it as well. >
  
  It’s not productive to compare victims of different crimes and try to figure out which ones we can and can’t sympathize with or who had it the worst. Many things are crimes and the perpetrators of crimes are punished and prevented from reoffending in an ideal world regardless of the severity of the crime or the level of victimization they put on their victim.
  Human trafficking is “Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.” At least that’s the definition according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. There can be a sexual component to the crime and that would be called sex trafficking and be a similar yet separate crime with a separate definition. Also people who are sex trafficked are victimized to varying degrees but if someone is sex trafficked it doesn’t matter how badly they were victimized they were still sex trafficked and it doesn’t minimize other peoples experience to call it what it is. Likewise for human trafficking, just because you didn’t traffic humans as bad as the other guy doesn’t mean you don’t go to jail for it! >
  
  Can we stop exploiting vulnerable groups to use as political props? Super weird >
  
  Isn't the whole fecking Christian Christmas story about accepting two migrants/wanders in (minus the whole barn part) not kicking them out to somewhere completely unknown? 
  Doesn't putting them on a bus on Christmas eve defeat that message >
  
  I'm sorry, did you expect Conservative Christians to know and understand a story from the Bible? >
  
  Ahhh I see how I was wrong. If only someone could dumb it down for them to get.. Say like a picture book or something for 5 year Olds? >
  
  Among many things that frustrates me is the shear cruelty of this stunt. These are people who have gone through a lot of suffering. You would think a “Christian” a day before their high holy day would show compassion to these people. Fuck Abbot. I guess it is more important to own the libs and get a couple of minutes on Fox. >
  
  Stop using people for politics! These are PEOPLE!! >
  
  
  These are PEOPLE!!
  
  Not to the GOP. That should be the biggest take away from this whole thing. >
  
  Correcto. They refer to them more easily as animals or a disease. Only suitable to be wiped out and systematically destroyed. Like stray dogs with rabies. >
  
  There was a country in Europe that did that a while back. >
  
  I think I've heard of that. Can't remember which though. Tip of the tongue. >
  
  How does anyone still support Republicans? This is so disgusting. >
  
  The people who support them admire them for their casual cruelty.
  It really is as simple as that.