Blog topic #3

This video points to the problem of complacency with regards to the Thai government in their efforts to shut down human traffickers in their country.  The video discussed human trafficking from the point of view of getting people into the country to cheap labor which is a problem that we as Americans can understand fairly well.  The sound byte of the activist at the end of the video sounded like it could have been a man from Arizona or southern  California talking about the governments lame excuses for their delay or failure to step up efforts to prevent illegal immigration. I believe that in the case of the Thai government they have to have some kind of motivation for keeping the human trafficking business going and the labor coming in because otherwise they would have stepped in by now.  I know that Thailand is infamous for their trafficking, both for labor and sex, and I have a feeling that one way or another the government is touching that money.  Otherwise they would have a great motivation to shut down the traffickers because they aren't getting tax money on the income of the "immigrants."