Open Borders Led to an Explosion of Human Trafficking Victims. We Can Stop It.
A humanitarian crisis has been unfolding inside America's borders, largely ignored for years: the mass trafficking of vulnerable children. National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month comes to a close this year, with a promising update: 2,700 child exploitation victims have been located by the Department of Justice in just one year under President Trump’s leadership. These are 2,700 innocent lives restored, but the work is by no means done. With continued aggressive federal action underway and ensuring criminal networks under remain under constant pressure, the America First Movement is intensifying its campaign to expose the failures that enable exploitation, advance policies that put the safety of children first, and eradicate child trafficking nationwide.
During their time in office President Biden and “Border Czar” Harris did not merely ignore rampant human trafficking across America’s southern border; they enabled the mass import of vulnerable minors while emboldening smugglers to grow criminal networks at the expense of their victims and the American people. The scale was unimaginable, and historic.
Time and again red flags were raised constantly about the damage caused by their policies. As Tara Lee Rodas, a former Health and Human Services (HHS) official, testified before Congress, “[These children] have no idea they’re being trafficked. They know they’re going to work, but they don’t understand the situation they’re about to be in.”
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