Customs Border Protection
Father Chris of Our Lady of the Skies Chapel at JFK Airport
wears Blue in support of STOP Trafficking campaign.
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Blue Campaign
Creates awareness to help stop human trafficking
Hudson Contactless Stores
Coming to an airport near you
Introducing Hudson Nonstop
– our first contactless
store – powered by Amazon’s
Just Walk Out technology. Set
to open at Dallas Love Field
Airport in Q1 2021, the store is
designed with customer ease
and convenience at its core,
complete with single points
of entry and exit to promote
social distancing in the #COVID19
environment. Travelers
on-the-go will enter the
store using their credit card,
take the products they’re looking
for, and then walk out of
the store – it’s that easy!
Hudson’s use of Amazon’s
Just Walk Out technology only
further transforms our business
model as we continue to
pursue digital innovation in
our stores. Learn more about
this exciting new initiative for
Hudson and what it means for
our travelers, here: https://
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“Today’s traveler is progressively
more connected,
mobile, and time sensitive –
and they have higher expectations
for convenience, safety,
and speed during their shopping
experiences,” said Brian
Quinn, EVP and Chief Operating
Officer of Hudson. “The
addition of Amazon’s Just
Walk Out technology perfectly
complements our current digital
footprint, providing travelers
with yet another quick,
secure, and contactless shopping
experience that meets
their needs.”
Just Walk Out technology
allows travelers to quickly enter
the Hudson Nonstop store
using their credit card, take
the products they’re looking
for, and then walk out of the
store, offering shoppers an
innovative walk-through experience.
After they leave the
store, shoppers are charged
for the items they selected and
walked out of the store with.
Not only will customers be
able to purchase Grab & Go
food and beverage selections,
but they will also be able to
shop for the brands and products
Hudson is known for, including
travel convenience
essentials, electronics, and
personal protective equipment
(PPE) under Hudson’s
proprietary “Traveler’s Best”
line.
With the addition of Amazon’s
Just Walk Out technology,
Hudson team members
will now be able to spend more
time focused on enhancing the
shopping experience for customers,
while still providing
the Traveler’s Best Friend service
that they’re known for.
The elimination of checkoutline
friction for shoppers will
also appeal to both the timesensitive
traveler and the dealseeker
alike, as purchases can
be made at the speed and convenience
that best fits their
travel schedule.
BY JEFF YAPALATER
The Trafficking Victims Protection
Act of 2000 was created
to combat trafficking in persons
(TIP) through “three Ps”: protection,
prevention, and prosecution.
Before 2000 few people, even
in government, understood that
an illegal immigrant working in
the U.S. could also be a modernday
slave, and should be treated
as a victim.
The Blue Campaign encompasses
a wide range of programs
designed to engage the American
and global public, the Department’s
federal, state, local and
tribal law enforcement partners,
nonprofit and nongovernmental
organizations, and governments
around the world.
The Blue Campaign’s name
and symbol—a dark blue stroke
underscoring the campaign’s
name—was chosen by the Department
to evoke national and
international efforts to combat
human trafficking with reference
to the “thin blue line” of
law enforcement, as well as the
global anti-human trafficking
symbols the Blue Blindfold, produced
by the United Kingdom
Human Trafficking Center, and
the Blue Heart, developed by the
United Nations Office of Drugs
and Crime to help raise international
awareness about this
global tragedy.
To try to stop trafficking at
airports, CBP initially identifies
a person suspected of trafficking
then forwards the information to
the HSI group, where the individual
(s) are investigated. If there
is enough evidence of wrongdoing,
then the case goes to the government
prosecutors for indictments
and potential punishment
according to a JFK HSI official
Agents say that the subject of
human trafficking is usually a
young woman, either kidnapped.
lured or has family threatened,
and illegally brought into the
U.S. Their IDs and perhaps passports
are confiscated so that the
enslaved individual cannot escape
from their captors under severe
threat of retaliation. Often
women succumb to their prison
like environment and fail to try
to escape. HSI wants everyone to
know that if the public can help
identify these enslaved people
they will be aided, given care and
assistance to begin a new life.
This is what Blue is all about.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
works with other federal,
state and local law enforcement
agencies to raise awareness
about the heinous crime of human
trafficking and the U.S. government
role in the prevention of
trafficking, protection of victims
and prosecution of traffickers. A
strong partnership between law
enforcement agencies and the
public is needed to empower the
victims to reach out for help.
Human trafficking is a crime
that affects every country in the
world. Worldwide, women and
children and the primary victims.
CBP Officers and Agents
have a unique role in recognizing
potential victims and informing
them about opportunities for
help. CBP recognizes that our as
our officers and agents are the
country’s frontline as the first
U.S. government officials seen
by potential trafficking victims
and traffickers upon entry into
the United States. CBP is training
its officers and agents to identify
potential victims of human
trafficking coming to the U.S.
through our borders. To date,
more than 38,000 CBP officers
and agents have been trained.
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