Why isn’t something like this covered under human trafficking?
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from what i read in the article comments, the human trafficking law only covers trafficking across state borders
Your country is wild….
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.
Yeah we know that's why we dominate a lot of the headlines
It also means that they didn't have a need for such a law until 2009.
Or it just didn't make the news
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.
Or it happened but not to that degree. It doesn't have either or lmao
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.
Jeez, the fear mongering really works on you eh?
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.
So are there any other states without child selling laws? Asking for a friend.
Isn't Mississippi still one of the few states with an unenforceable (and symbolic) pro-slavery law on the books too?
They're a special kind of asshole in that state.
They're a special kind of asshole in that state.
Cue Phil Ochs' take on the state...
I'll always uplemm a Phil ochs video!
Great song! If you combine this, Mississippi Goddam and the movie Idiocracy, you have an almost exact picture of Mississippi today.
Actually pretty sure that penal slavery is still the law of the land in all or almost all of the states.
Wouldn't put it past Mississippi to officially endorse the much worse and extremely illegal chattel slavery, though. It's just something they'd do.
Lots of states have unenforceable laws still on the books for reasons of symbolism, particularly with regard to sodomy and gay people.
Yeah I know. A lot of "we want to be hyper-authoritarian bigots but the constitution won't let us! We're still gonna officially brag about how awful we are, though" state proclamations going around, have been basically forever.
Still doesn't mean that Mississippi isn't the worst hellhole of them.
I take that more as a good sign. We should have limited laws rather than a law for everything possible someone can do wrong.
Then again the fact should be seen as a condemnation of that woman. Don't be the reason a new law is made.
What kind of car?
My kid is acting up.
Im not sure if its a good thing its so rare or bad that there wasn't a law against it.