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.
“No one has ever been as hard as I am when it comes to exploitation, particularly, they say, the sexual exploitation of children. No one has ever been as hard. So we wiped it out. It’s gone and it won’t be … there has never been anyone more dedicated to sexual exploitation is what they say.”
Remove half of the context and it finally becomes accurate:
You don’t really have to remove any context except understanding how stupid Trump is. If you just read that without knowing Trump it would be a confession
I originally explained it was gone so he was going to pull funding because it wasn’t needed but the bit got too long so I snipped all that. It’s painful to think in his voice for too long.
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