{"id":346443,"date":"2021-06-22T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=346443"},"modified":"2021-06-22T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:06:36","slug":"kilili-says-marianas-not-immune-to-impacts-of-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kilili-says-marianas-not-immune-to-impacts-of-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilili says Marianas not immune to impacts of human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_346444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346444\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-346444 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gregorio-Kilili-C.-Sablan12-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-346444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Ind-MP) has teamed up with Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) on a legislation that aims to strengthen detection of human trafficking incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said in his e-kilili newsletter over the weekend that he and Walberg introduced the Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act, H.R. 3957, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Marianas is not immune to the impacts of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstruction companies working [on] our islands have lured foreign workers with false promises about wages and working conditions, only to withhold pay and confiscate passports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said human trafficking concerns were also behind the decision to deny H-2B visas for workers from the Philippines, although that ban is now lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The delegate said, although some of these problems have been addressed, Sablan said that federal agencies must remain vigilant and be given the tools they need to fight human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>He said their bill will ensure U.S. Department of Labor employees are taught how to recognize human trafficking and refer these cases to federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Walberg said human trafficking is a terrible scourge and that they need to use every tool at their disposal to stop it from happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Ind-MP) has teamed up with Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":333106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}