Tea at Trianon: Human Trafficker Busted: ICE Probe Uncovers Brutal Exploitation Ring

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Human Trafficker Busted: ICE Probe Uncovers Brutal Exploitation Ring

From Gregg Jarrett:

Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez, a Mexican national and leader of a large, brutal sex trafficking operation, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after an extensive investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to Breitbart. Hernandez-Velazquez, 48, was extradited from Mexico to the United States in February 2021. He pleaded guilty to a sex trafficking charge in April 2023 and received his sentence on July 10, 2025.

According to federal prosecutors, Hernandez-Velazquez and his family in Mexico used force, fraud, and coercion to lure young women from Mexico into prostitution in the United States. The traffickers falsely promised these women marriage proposals from men living in the United States. However, once the victims arrived, they were enslaved in the sex trade. The victims were beaten, forced to undergo abortions, drugged, and threatened with violence against their families if they refused to comply. (Read more.)