Does the 'Sound of Freedom' film show the truth behind child sex trafficking? | Morning in America
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- Tim Ballard, whose anti-child trafficking advocacy is depicted in the film, says American border security is key to preventing abuses as seen in the film, and the issue is already political. Lt. Christopher Olivarez says it's over 85,000 children that aren't accounted for because there's no intervention from the federal government to vet the unaccompanied children crossing the border.
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I don’t think she anticipated that response. It’s time to start thinking about the children and not the optics or agendas. It’s also more than sex trafficking, it’s organ harvesting as well. It is simply vile.
@nuttzonyachin3198Trump???
Hello!!!Trump separated hundreds of children from their parents at the border!!!
They were living under inhumane conditions!
Where did Trump send hundreds of the children detained at the border a few😮 years ago and currently?? Where are those children.
Noooo! Trump doesn't care about stopping sex trafficking. He was a really close friend with Jeffrey Epstain!!! Epstain was a sex trafficker who was assassinated in prison!!The assesin want us to believe that Epstain commited suicide. NOOO!! That's a lie! Someone wanted his silence.
Houston has received hundreds of immigrants children where are they?
El Paso Tx too. Were are those childrens???
Of course ignore all the misinformation and propaganda this is about the children!!! Facts don’t matter who cares about the actual information and the fact that most human trafficking is due to immigration laws that are pushed my republicans and older teens and underprivileged women and sex workers!!! Ignore all that and think of the children! Anyone who disagrees is obviously pro pedophilia!!
Omg...what is harvesting?? Sounds sick :(
@@sarahmiles8131it’s exactly how it sounds probably messy…
That was just the surface of it. They left out the organ trade.
This too needs to be brought to attention
@@kulafachi9571 and the 81 labs in Ukraine
Children deserve to be safe ❤️ Child Trafficking is Horrific and it needs to be Stopped !
Absolutely fact based. Even if it wasn't, why would anyone be demonizing this movie? It's just soooooo strange that anyone would attack this movie. Very sus.
Not that strange then you think about it why they may be attacking this film.
@@0607guy for what reason?
@@wereproductsnotconsumers8179 Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry and those in the industry would like to keep it that way. And those who utilise this industry also have an interest in not bringing this issue to light.
From the article that I sent-
Since its release, survivors who have criticized the film have been frequently accused of being “pedophiles” or “groomers” - the kinds of people by whom they themselves were once victimized.
“If I share anything publicly that’s opposing the film I get a lot of name-calling, a lot of lashing back,” Jose Lewis Alfaro, a sex and labor trafficking survivor who now works as a consultant and lived experience expert on trafficking issues, said. “It’s just really interesting to me how people are more than willing to hear a wealthy rich man’s superhero story, and aren’t willing to trust and listen to those who have actually lived through it.”
“It’s not awareness. This movie is full of assumptions,” said Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman, the chair at the United Nations’ fund for victims of human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, “and a dangerous portrayal of what trafficking is.”
Piraino-Guzman, himself a survivor of childhood sex trafficking, has been critical of OUR’s work in the past, and the film, he said, furthers the same issues he’s called out before.
“When fans of the QAnon movie called me a pedophile because I dared to criticize how the film did not hire any survivors to help write the script or consult, I spent an hour crying,” said Sabra Boyd, a journalist, consultant, and child labor and sex trafficking survivor.
“I can't comprehend saying that, especially not to a child trafficking survivor. I don't understand why fans of the movie would rather listen to Tim Ballard than actual trafficking survivors,” Sabra Boyd said. “But the problem is that solutions to human trafficking and child trafficking are not exciting like an action movie.”
Alfaro worries about the effects of calling trafficking survivors “pedophiles,” beyond just the emotional impact it has on them individually.
“You’re making them feel like they don’t even want to talk about this issue anymore,” he said. “There’s a lot of harm that happens with that and ultimately we have nothing to blame but these overly sensational depictions.”
Dr. Beth Bowman is the founder of the Restoring Ivy Collective, which, like many other survivor-led organizations, offers practical services for survivors, including support groups and referrals for housing and case management.
Bowman bluntly said that many people in the anti-trafficking world are “pissed” about the film.
“It’s a sensationalized story that you only get trafficked if you’re taken by bad men in a white van,” Bowman said. Like other survivors, she was disturbed by the racialized undertones of the film, in which every villain is Latino and the hero is a lone white man. “It’s this awful ‘white versus the world’ narrative that just isn’t true. Most of the time people aren’t kidnapped. There’s poverty and abuse involved, for instance, an uncle is the trafficker. They aren’t typically that far from their families.” People who buy into the narratives promoted by the film and by some anti-trafficking groups, Bowman said, seem to have a vested interest in believing trafficking happens elsewhere, in exoticized far-away situations, and never at home. “They believe there’s a moral or ethnic or socioeconomic or national shield around them and their kids.”
“I’m going to be honest,” said Rafael Bautista, another labor trafficking expert who’s also a survivor. “I will not watch the movie out of respect for survivors and the movement. It’s harmful and it takes us back many years of work.” He’s struggled to get people to care about labor trafficking, even when it involves children, he said, pointing specifically to the thousands of migrant children whose whereabouts are unknown after they entered the United States as unaccompanied minors, and who may be victims of labor exploitation. He worries that because they’re looking for scenarios of international kidnapping and literal bondage depicted in films like Sound of Freedom and Taken, people may miss more common signs of trafficking at home - in nail salons, agricultural settings, or among domestic workers.
The creators of Sound of Freedom have not hidden their desire to use their audience’s concern to boost their ticket sales. At the end of the movie, Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard, appears in a special PSA to urge people to buy more tickets to the film. Some people working in the anti-trafficking space have tried to figure out how to speak to people who might have seen the film in hopes of nudging them in a more productive direction.
“What does helping look like to you?” asks Blair Hopkins, the executive director of SWOP Behind Bars, which advocates for sex workers and trafficking survivors who are currently incarcerated or working on re-entry after getting out. “I would for sure tell someone the answer is not to buy more tickets to movies.”
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People valid reasons to dislike this movie. By name calling those who are against this movie and the harmful narrative it spins, you are silencing actual human trafficking victims. So congrats, way to go man
@wereproductsnotconsumers8179 They're ordered by the ones doing it. Biden and all the other western leaders are in on it. Its all part of the immigration insanity.
Anyone against this film has got something to hide !
Hollywood and disney are hiding something from coming out
They do.
From the article that I sent-
Since its release, survivors who have criticized the film have been frequently accused of being “pedophiles” or “groomers” - the kinds of people by whom they themselves were once victimized.
“If I share anything publicly that’s opposing the film I get a lot of name-calling, a lot of lashing back,” Jose Lewis Alfaro, a sex and labor trafficking survivor who now works as a consultant and lived experience expert on trafficking issues, said. “It’s just really interesting to me how people are more than willing to hear a wealthy rich man’s superhero story, and aren’t willing to trust and listen to those who have actually lived through it.”
“It’s not awareness. This movie is full of assumptions,” said Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman, the chair at the United Nations’ fund for victims of human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, “and a dangerous portrayal of what trafficking is.”
Piraino-Guzman, himself a survivor of childhood sex trafficking, has been critical of OUR’s work in the past, and the film, he said, furthers the same issues he’s called out before.
“When fans of the QAnon movie called me a pedophile because I dared to criticize how the film did not hire any survivors to help write the script or consult, I spent an hour crying,” said Sabra Boyd, a journalist, consultant, and child labor and sex trafficking survivor.
“I can't comprehend saying that, especially not to a child trafficking survivor. I don't understand why fans of the movie would rather listen to Tim Ballard than actual trafficking survivors,” Sabra Boyd said. “But the problem is that solutions to human trafficking and child trafficking are not exciting like an action movie.”
Alfaro worries about the effects of calling trafficking survivors “pedophiles,” beyond just the emotional impact it has on them individually.
“You’re making them feel like they don’t even want to talk about this issue anymore,” he said. “There’s a lot of harm that happens with that and ultimately we have nothing to blame but these overly sensational depictions.”
Dr. Beth Bowman is the founder of the Restoring Ivy Collective, which, like many other survivor-led organizations, offers practical services for survivors, including support groups and referrals for housing and case management.
Bowman bluntly said that many people in the anti-trafficking world are “pissed” about the film.
“It’s a sensationalized story that you only get trafficked if you’re taken by bad men in a white van,” Bowman said. Like other survivors, she was disturbed by the racialized undertones of the film, in which every villain is Latino and the hero is a lone white man. “It’s this awful ‘white versus the world’ narrative that just isn’t true. Most of the time people aren’t kidnapped. There’s poverty and abuse involved, for instance, an uncle is the trafficker. They aren’t typically that far from their families.” People who buy into the narratives promoted by the film and by some anti-trafficking groups, Bowman said, seem to have a vested interest in believing trafficking happens elsewhere, in exoticized far-away situations, and never at home. “They believe there’s a moral or ethnic or socioeconomic or national shield around them and their kids.”
“I’m going to be honest,” said Rafael Bautista, another labor trafficking expert who’s also a survivor. “I will not watch the movie out of respect for survivors and the movement. It’s harmful and it takes us back many years of work.” He’s struggled to get people to care about labor trafficking, even when it involves children, he said, pointing specifically to the thousands of migrant children whose whereabouts are unknown after they entered the United States as unaccompanied minors, and who may be victims of labor exploitation. He worries that because they’re looking for scenarios of international kidnapping and literal bondage depicted in films like Sound of Freedom and Taken, people may miss more common signs of trafficking at home - in nail salons, agricultural settings, or among domestic workers.
The creators of Sound of Freedom have not hidden their desire to use their audience’s concern to boost their ticket sales. At the end of the movie, Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard, appears in a special PSA to urge people to buy more tickets to the film. Some people working in the anti-trafficking space have tried to figure out how to speak to people who might have seen the film in hopes of nudging them in a more productive direction.
“What does helping look like to you?” asks Blair Hopkins, the executive director of SWOP Behind Bars, which advocates for sex workers and trafficking survivors who are currently incarcerated or working on re-entry after getting out. “I would for sure tell someone the answer is not to buy more tickets to movies.”
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People valid reasons to dislike this movie. By name calling those who are against this movie and the harmful narrative it spins, you are silencing actual human trafficking victims. So congrats, way to go man
@@Peace-nm6bx From the article that I sent-
Since its release, survivors who have criticized the film have been frequently accused of being “pedophiles” or “groomers” - the kinds of people by whom they themselves were once victimized.
“If I share anything publicly that’s opposing the film I get a lot of name-calling, a lot of lashing back,” Jose Lewis Alfaro, a sex and labor trafficking survivor who now works as a consultant and lived experience expert on trafficking issues, said. “It’s just really interesting to me how people are more than willing to hear a wealthy rich man’s superhero story, and aren’t willing to trust and listen to those who have actually lived through it.”
“It’s not awareness. This movie is full of assumptions,” said Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman, the chair at the United Nations’ fund for victims of human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, “and a dangerous portrayal of what trafficking is.”
Piraino-Guzman, himself a survivor of childhood sex trafficking, has been critical of OUR’s work in the past, and the film, he said, furthers the same issues he’s called out before.
“When fans of the QAnon movie called me a pedophile because I dared to criticize how the film did not hire any survivors to help write the script or consult, I spent an hour crying,” said Sabra Boyd, a journalist, consultant, and child labor and sex trafficking survivor.
“I can't comprehend saying that, especially not to a child trafficking survivor. I don't understand why fans of the movie would rather listen to Tim Ballard than actual trafficking survivors,” Sabra Boyd said. “But the problem is that solutions to human trafficking and child trafficking are not exciting like an action movie.”
Alfaro worries about the effects of calling trafficking survivors “pedophiles,” beyond just the emotional impact it has on them individually.
“You’re making them feel like they don’t even want to talk about this issue anymore,” he said. “There’s a lot of harm that happens with that and ultimately we have nothing to blame but these overly sensational depictions.”
Dr. Beth Bowman is the founder of the Restoring Ivy Collective, which, like many other survivor-led organizations, offers practical services for survivors, including support groups and referrals for housing and case management.
Bowman bluntly said that many people in the anti-trafficking world are “pissed” about the film.
“It’s a sensationalized story that you only get trafficked if you’re taken by bad men in a white van,” Bowman said. Like other survivors, she was disturbed by the racialized undertones of the film, in which every villain is Latino and the hero is a lone white man. “It’s this awful ‘white versus the world’ narrative that just isn’t true. Most of the time people aren’t kidnapped. There’s poverty and abuse involved, for instance, an uncle is the trafficker. They aren’t typically that far from their families.” People who buy into the narratives promoted by the film and by some anti-trafficking groups, Bowman said, seem to have a vested interest in believing trafficking happens elsewhere, in exoticized far-away situations, and never at home. “They believe there’s a moral or ethnic or socioeconomic or national shield around them and their kids.”
“I’m going to be honest,” said Rafael Bautista, another labor trafficking expert who’s also a survivor. “I will not watch the movie out of respect for survivors and the movement. It’s harmful and it takes us back many years of work.” He’s struggled to get people to care about labor trafficking, even when it involves children, he said, pointing specifically to the thousands of migrant children whose whereabouts are unknown after they entered the United States as unaccompanied minors, and who may be victims of labor exploitation. He worries that because they’re looking for scenarios of international kidnapping and literal bondage depicted in films like Sound of Freedom and Taken, people may miss more common signs of trafficking at home - in nail salons, agricultural settings, or among domestic workers.
The creators of Sound of Freedom have not hidden their desire to use their audience’s concern to boost their ticket sales. At the end of the movie, Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard, appears in a special PSA to urge people to buy more tickets to the film. Some people working in the anti-trafficking space have tried to figure out how to speak to people who might have seen the film in hopes of nudging them in a more productive direction.
“What does helping look like to you?” asks Blair Hopkins, the executive director of SWOP Behind Bars, which advocates for sex workers and trafficking survivors who are currently incarcerated or working on re-entry after getting out. “I would for sure tell someone the answer is not to buy more tickets to movies.”
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People valid reasons to dislike this movie. By name calling those who are against this movie and the harmful narrative it spins, you are silencing actual human trafficking victims. So congrats, way to go man
This administration is so worried about optics. They just push these kids out without vetting sponsors, so what if they have to stay in a detention center for more than two days or two weeks to properly vet sponsors. This is disgusting.
Russia the republican friend, is doing all of that bad things to Ukrainian children. Shame on republicans for supporting Russia
Optics has nothing to do with it, really the issue is underfunding and the push to keep immigration from happening.
It's absolutely disgusting what this administration has done, especially when it comes to losing 85,000 kids. There is a special place in hell for these people
Excuse me your former president locked children in cages and many Children came up missing under his watch so shut up
Shame on the USA for allowing this
I saw the movie..awesomely done. Then I just finished a book The Crime at Black Dudley published in 1929...and in the end, one of the characters laments about the grooming of children for this same dang thing. This has been happening forever and needs to stop today. No more pretending otherwise
Your engagement means a great deal. Thanks for being there.
So sad 😢
Not just sad but immoral, deadly, and it makes the leaders RICH!!!
Great job with the interview ❤
My God help them. All
I’m glad the right I finally coming around to helping these migrants and given them the help they need. Finally something the left and right can agree on.
As long as there is a market for it. There will be trafficing. U need to track the money. See where its coming from
Fabian Marta, a financial patron of “The Sound of Freedom,” was charged with being an accessory to child kidnapping a few weeks after the film premiered.
Yes. They even accused Ballard for things he didn't do.
That I called sad
SO MANY children that were in those Cages during the Pandemic and taken away from their Parents were most definitely trafficked... SMH.. And, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the Only Ones who could've done it were the Authorities! It's time for the Truth to be EXPOSED!! Those kids Deserve a fight for their Lives. GOD is watching U.S. ...ALL 💔
Im tryna watch it but cant.. This gives me the chills.. knowing elites fighting/paying to hide it.. sad evil world
Yes.. I remember those kids and parents at the border that were separated during the pandemic…They sure kept quiet on that one…🤔🤔🤔
There blaming mexico united states sperated family migrants sperated kids an parents an what happen to the ones that been lost in the system there blaming cartels
If it is somewhat fictional doesn't matter! The real and despicable fact is: NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO KILL THE INNOCENCE AND PURITY OF A CHILD! This is not about religion, not about politics, ethical matter or social class! CHILDREN ARE NOT FOR SEX!!!!!
Those who disagree are also p. .. .le
God don’t forget about these world and these kids and animales who are being abuse daily god please 🙏
I thought the film was about farts.
Listen…I simply do not believe all of this! Can anyone tell me where ALLLL these millions of “Legal Refugees and Asylum Seekers” are being held? I have tried every legal avenue I know to try and locate them. I have decent job vacancies that need to be filled ASAP, I can provide housing and a good wage! I hit dead ends and roadblocks everywhere I go. I have tried all the “Rescue Organizations” Catholic Charity’s is a being one that says they house them. You try to get through to them to help! It’s impossible! I have tried Customs and Border Protection and they give me names of the same organizations that stonewall me! I can the runaround like “Oh, they are at a “processing facility”. I ask “Where?” Answer? ‘We can’t divulge that information!” “Can I apply to to receive or vett people? I have jobs and housing!” Answer, “We can put you on a list!” I never hear from them! I want to know where they are. I keep hearing “Millions”. But you try to located them! They only place you can find “workers” are at your Local Lowe’s or Home Depot! I don’t want straight illegals! I wanted folks that are vetted refugees or Asylum folks!” That’s a “Conspiracy all itself! And I also think this new movie is a total “Crock of 💩!” The Colombian FARC has been disbanded and trust me. They don’t need to ship young children INTO Colombia from other poor nations to exploit! They have more than enough right in Colombia! People need to stop listening to the news and dig up and investigate their own facts and conclusions!
GOOD FREAKING QUESTION !!! You know it can't be good if it's hidden.