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.
This is a long read, but worthwhile. The details are compelling. The administration has, unsurprisingly, tried to reframe the trafficking problem as one of immigration. This has allowed them to cut funding and staff, redirect resources, and ignore effective projects so they can bolster their deportation efforts. All of this is massively harmful to real victims and real solutions to human trafficking.
This is the definition of “when all you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail.”
No, this implies that there is a desire to fix anything in the first place
No, this is the definition of supporting pedophiles because that is what they do and that is who they are
This is actually the opposite. The only problem they give a shit about is nails, so they are breaking all their other tools by bashing them into the wall.