cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36046492
The Trump administration has aggressively rolled back efforts across the federal government to combat human trafficking, a Guardian investigation has found.
The sweeping retreat threatens to negate decades of progress in the drive to prevent sexual slavery, forced labor and child sexual exploitation, according to legal experts, former government officials and anti-trafficking advocates. They say the administration’s moves are impeding efforts to prosecute perpetrators and protect survivors in the United States and around the world.
“It’s been a widespread and multi-pronged attack on survivors that leaves all of us less safe and leaves survivors with few options,” said Jean Bruggeman, executive director of Freedom Network USA, a national coalition of service providers, researchers and trafficking survivors.
I am perpetually haunted by a news story I saw circa 2018 showing footage of children being led around New York at about 1AM by a prim kindergarten teacher-type woman. News sources at the time said they came from the border. So what in the name of God were they doing in New York across the continent? I have had a rising sense of panic about this for ever and I fear you are dead on. Want a never ending goodie bag of slaves with no paper trail? Militarize a border.