• sci@feddit.nl
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      from what i read in the article comments, the human trafficking law only covers trafficking across state borders

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          In the US the federal government has very little power to regulate individual’s actions that power is typically reserved for the states. The federal government deals with international and interstate matters.

          So the federal government can make laws against selling people across state borders but they can not make laws against selling people within state borders. Because that power belongs to the states.

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          It also means that they didn’t have a need for such a law until 2009.

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              That’s obviously the most logical reason. For decades, no, centuries there have been legions of parents selling their children in the hotspot of Mississippi. These outlaws found the loophole and it was only stopped because of a 2009 law! Fucking braindead.

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                1 year ago

                Or it happened but not to that degree. It doesn’t have either or lmao

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            Yeah, because if MISSISSIPPI doesn’t have a law specifically forbidding something, it’s always just because it doesn’t happen.

            In related news, the past didn’t happen.

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                It’s called knowing the first thing about the history and present day of the worst state in the Union.

                Fear mongering is what GOP politicians from Mississippi and other deep red states use to retain absolute power in spite of having done a consistently piss poor job for over half a century.