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Importance Of Lobbying

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A major portion of lobbying for a cause is lobbying Congress. The lobbying of Congress needs to be targeted to specific committees and staffers within the committees in order for it to be the most effective. The committee that would best be the targets of my lobbying group would be the judiciary committee, specifically the subcommittees of the Constitution and Civil Justice and Immigration and Border Security. These would be ideal because they handle civil rights issues such as human trafficking and also handle matters regarding refugees, which is what many human trafficking victims are classified as. These subcommittees would also have jurisdiction for many additional reasons. The subcommittee on the constitution and civil justice would …show more content…

The subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights have jurisdiction over “(1) Constitutional amendments; (2) Enforcement and protection of constitutional rights; (3) Statutory guarantees of civil rights and civil liberties; (4) Separation of powers; (5) Federal-State relations; (6) Interstate compacts; (7) Human rights laws and practices; (8) Enforcement and implementation of human rights laws”. The specific points of jurisdiction that relate to human trafficking are the third point and the seventh point. These two best relate to human trafficking issues because the legislation resulting from these two points would directly affect human trafficking victims and the resources they have access to. When lobbying, Red Lights for Human Trafficking would also want to lobby the Senate subcommittee, Committee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security because they have jurisdiction “(1) immigration, citizenship and refugee laws;… (4) Oversight of international migration, internally displaced persons, and refugee laws and policy”. These are two very important jurisdiction matters to Red Lights for Human Trafficking because one of the main goals of the organization is to help human trafficking victims gain access to resources that are needed to help for recovery and to attain the goal of gaining citizenship in the United States; this committee handles legislation that involves resources that the organization is lobbying to get victims access to and immigration laws which are important when helping victims gain citizenship in the United

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