“Our companions say that for some remaining people they are in touch inside the scam centers, even if they can somehow manage to exit, then they have no place to put them. Then, the remaining people have no money for the flying house and have no place to go, so they are recruited again in the centers, because they have no real alternative options, ”says Macher. “Some survivors have injuries like broken bones, which are from jumping out of the window to escape, and now organizations have no money to put them in hospitals, and without medical care, the survivors Can be paralyzed. “
Many sources tell Wired that organizations relying on funding have to prevent or reduce the work and close the employees. Macher, who has been running groups working with members of his network in the last week, says some survivors of the scam are being assisted to return home; However, shelters that temporarily give them homes and provide care are affected. “To give them homes after a safe and reliable shelter, some survivors, despite knowing the risks, choose to return to their exploitative work inside the scam centers,” Macher says.
Michael Brosowski, the founder of Blue Dragon, says, “There are shelters in neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Myanmar, which have just been saved, and helpline, and so now they have lost all their funding overnight.” Charity that is More than 1,700 smuggling victims rescuedTo prevent people from smuggling in the brothels related to the online scam.
Brosowski says that Blue Dragon funding is working to reduce the damage caused by freeze. “We are working to work what we can bite, how we can return without losing the most direct work,” Brosowski says. For example, training programs for social workers who help the smuggling people may have to cut.
Even if some funding returns – the freeze of the State Department is scheduled to be in place for 90 days – organizations supporting the victims can never be the same because employees get other jobs or get other jobs It is forced to move away from areas where they are working locally. Sources say that this disadvantage of expertise would be extremely harmful for relief efforts.
“They have damaged the relationship with local partners or officials, with which they worked regularly to address these issues,” two researchers from a global think tank.
In addition to human efforts, funding poses are likely to allow, even temporarily, criminal outfits to flourish. According to a government affair official in an international NGO with several American grants, some of some of the funding cut effect programs designed to identify potential criminals and help local law enforcement efforts.
“Identifying criminal networks, identifying bad actors, sending information to the National Security Council. Whatever is going on stops, ”add two global think tank researchers.
Ultimately, this means that smuggling victims will be trapped in unimaginable conditions, while more people around the US and the world will be at risk of suffering from compounds.
“These scam compounds scam those who are in the USA,” says Brosowski of Blue Dragon. “The US government can save hundreds of million dollars from cutting such programs, but scammers are going to take billions.”