REVEALS A PRETTY TROUBLING FATE FOR A LOT OF THE UNACCOMPANIED
CHILD REFUGEES FROM SYRIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND PAKISTAN.
NOW, FOR THESE CHILD REFUGEES WHO END UP IN GREECE, IT
TURNS OUT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE ñ
THAT THEY ARE BEING FORCED TO SELL THEIR BODIES IN ORDER
TO AFFORD THE JOURNEY TO THE UK AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
THE REPORT FOUND THAT THE AVERAGE PRICE OF A SEXUAL
TRANSACTION WITH A CHILD IS ABOUT Ä15, OR ABOUT 12.50 POUND.
IT COSTS TO GO FROM GREECE TO THE UK TO AND THOUSANDS OF EURO,
SO MOST OF THE TIME THIS ISN'T EVEN ENOUGH TO GET THEM TO
WHERE THEY NEED TO GO TO PAY THE SMUGGLERS TO MAKE THE JOURNEY.
THE LARGEST GROUP OF CHILDREN SELLING SEX ARE AFGHAN HE
BOYS, ALONG WITH SYRIANS, IRAQIS, AND IRANIANS.
THE MAJORITY OF CUSTOMERS ARE OLDER MEN AGED 35 AND OLDER.
THE REPORT ALSO FOUND THAT SOME OF THE CHILDREN SELLING SEX
BECOME ADDICTED TO DRUGS, MAKING IT EVEN LESS LIKELY THAT
THEY WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO PAY SMUGGLERS, AND LEAVE
GREECE TO CONTINUE WITH THEIR JOURNEYS.
IT ALSO IDENTIFIES THAT RATE AND OTHER FORMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OF
CHILDREN IN THE CAMPS, AN INCREASE IN CHILD MARRIAGES ñ
SO OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A REALLY SAD SITUATION, IT'S SAD WITH THE
REFUGEE CRISIS, AND THESE KIDS A LOT OF THE TIMES ARE COMING
OVER, SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS IN THESE WAR-TORN
COUNTRIES TO FIND A BETTER LIFE, AND THEY ARE HOPING TO GET
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND AS WE KNOW A LOT OF THE EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES CLOSED THEIR BORDERS LAST YEAR, SO THEY GOT STUCK IN
GREECE AFTER COMING OVER FROM TURKEY, AND THEY ESTIMATE THAT
THERE IS ABOUT 2300 UNACCOMPANIED MINORS IN GREECE
RIGHT NOW WHO DON'T REALLY HAVE A PLACE TO GO, AND THEY DON'T
HAVE TRANSLATORS, OR A LOT OF OTHER WAYS THAT COULD HELP THEM
SORT OF MAKE THE TRANSITION, HOPEFULLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES,
AND SO UNFORTUNATELY THEY HAVE BEEN PUT IN THIS POSITION WHERE
THEY ARE SELLING SEX TO MAKE MONEY.
AND IT'S REALLY SAD.
YEAH.
SO, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC STORIES THAT THERE IS
ABOUT THE REFUGEE CRISIS, AND AS WE HAVE PEOPLE FEAR MONGERING
AROUND SYRIA, AND ESPECIALLY AS WE HAVE SOMEONE SAYING THAT HE'S
ñ THAT HE CARES SO MUCH ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL BABIES THAT HE'S
WILLING TO BOMB ASSAD'S GOVERNMENT, WE STILL HAVE THAT
SAME PERSON IN THE U.S.
SAYING HE IS NOT WILLING TO TAKE IN ANY SYRIAN REFUGEES.
SO WHETHER THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, AS TRUMP CALLS
THEM, IF THEY ARE GASSED, THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, WILL
BE TAKEN IN?
NO.
IF YOU HEAR THIS STORY, WHO DOESN'T IT THINK ñ
WHO DOESN'T THINK IT IS HEARTBREAKING?
AND IT IS NOT JUST SYRIANS, IT IS AT DENNY'S AND IRAQIS AND
IRANIANS AS WELL AS SYRIANS, BUT VERY FEW OF THEM HAVE BEEN
PLACED INTO EUROPE OVER THE LAST YEAR, 191 OF THEM.
IT TAKES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO GO INTO THE COUNTRIES AS THE WAY
THAT ñ IN A WAY THAT HANNAH DESCRIBES, AND I MEAN $12 ñ OR
12 POUNDS I SHOULD SAY, THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO GET THERE.
AND SOME OF THEM ARE ADDICTED TO DRUGS.
THIS IS WHAT THEY CAME TO THE WEST FOR?
WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM SOME HELP.
SO FOR THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE IN THE UK, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THIS
DUBS AMENDMENT, WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE UK TO BRING IN A BUNCH
OF UNACCOMPANIED MINORS AND HELP THEM REHABILITATE WITHIN THE
REGION, AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY ACTUALLY ENDED THIS SCHEME, IT
WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE IN ABOUT 3000, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY ALL
OF THESE CHILDREN, AND THEY STOPPED IT AFTER TAKING ONLY 350
CHILDREN.
WHICH IS REALLY SAD.
THE UK DEFINITELY HAS A PROBLEM RIGHT THERE, AND GUIDES YOU TO
UNDERSTAND AT LOOKING AT SOME OF THE RESEARCH, THERE'S A QUOTE
I'M SITING FROM THE GOVERNMENT ñ FROM THE GUARDIAN LAST YEAR,
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAVE CARRIED OUT 8% OF THE PROMISED PG
RELOCATION THAT THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO.
AND THE TWO COUNTRIES THAT BASELY TOOK IN MOST OF THE
REFUGEES AFTER THE AGREEMENT WERE MALTA AND FINLAND,
WHICH ARE TINY COMPARED TO SOME OF
THE BIGGEST COUNTRIES.
PREVIOUSLY, WHERE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ACCEPTED LESS THAN 10%
OF THE 160,000 REFUGEES THEY PROMISED TO MOVE TO SAFETY,
AS WE MENTIONED HERE, AND CENK, AS YOU SAID, ONE OF THE
UNFORTUNATE REPERCUSSIONS OF NOT FOLLOWING THROUGH IS THAT THESE
DESPERATE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TRY TO FIND WAYS TO FIND SOME
SORT OF SANCTUARY TO MOVE TO, AND IS SUCH A HORRENDOUS
STORY AND IT GOES HAND-IN-HAND WITH THE HYPOCRISY WE SEE
ON THIS SIDE OF THE POND.
NOW, AGAIN I'M NOT GOING TO TURN AROUND AND SAY THAT THE
STATE IS AT FAULT FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE, THERE'S 20
OF OTHER COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TO BE OPENING THEIR BORDERS AS
WELL, AND ALLOW DOING ñ ALLOWING PEOPLE THAT ARE CLOSER BY
TO COME IN AND TRY TO FIND SOME SAFETY, BUT AT THE SAME
TIME, DONALD TRUMP IS GOING IN AND PALMING THESE AREAS,
THE FIRST THING I TWEETED OUT AFTER IS, IF YOU ARE GOING
TO BOMB THEM BASED ON THE REASON THAT THESE BEAUTIFUL BABIES
WERE FACING AN ASSAULT, THAT IS SO HYPOCRITICAL IF YOU ARE
LITERALLY NOT GOING TO OPEN UP YOUR BORDERS, AND HAVE STATED
THAT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO LET ANY OF THEM IN, NONE OF THEM.
THAT IS THE ACADEMY OF HYPOCRISY.
THE UNITED STATES HAS SUCH A POWERFUL WAY OF LEADING THE
CHARGE, AND OPENING UP THEIR BORDERS AND SAYING THAT WE WILL
ACCEPT SYRIAN REFUGEES.
AND THEN IN THE UK, TERESA MAY WHO HAS FALLEN HAND-IN-HAND
BEHIND DONALD TRUMP, SHE MAY CONVINCE THEM TO OPEN UP
THEIR BORDERS, BUT IT IS A RESULT OF THESE EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES NOT STAYING TRUE TO WHAT THEY SAID THEY WERE
GOING TO DO WHEN IT COMES TO THESE RELOCATIONS.
I AM GENERALLY AN OPTIMIST, BUT THIS STORY CHALLENGES
OPTIMISM OF THE WORLD.
BECAUSE NO MATTER ñ BECAUSE NOT ONLY ARE WE JUST NOT LETTING
THESE POOR PEOPLE INTO THE COUNTRY, AND WE NEVER LEARNED
ANYTHING FROM HISTORY, JUST LIKE WHEN THEY CAME TO THE SHORE OF
ST.
LOUIS DURING THE HOLOCAUST, AND WE WOULD NOT LET THEM IN AND
THEY WERE SENT TO HOLOCAUST CANS AND MURDERED.
HERE WE ARE AGAIN, AND WE GOT MASS KILLINGS IN SYRIA AND
WE ARE NOT TAKING PEOPLE IN, JUST LIKE THE PAST.
AND WE SAY THAT ISIS IS LIKE THE NAZIS, THAT THEY ARE THE WORST
OF THE WORST, LET ALONE WHAT ASSAD HAS DONE WITH THE
CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AND WE STILL WON'T TAKE THEM IN.
AND THEN THE OTHER PART THAT IS SUPER DEPRESSING IS THAT
MOST OF THE CUSTOMERS ARE MEN OVER THE AGE OF 35.
SO THEY ARE BUYING GENERALLY YOUNG BOYS, AND KNOWING THE
HORRIBLE SITUATION THEY ARE IN, THEY THINK, NOT HOW CAN I HELP,
BUT HOW CAN I TAKE ADVANTAGE FOR MY INTERESTS?
IT IS BEYOND GROSS.