Human Trafficking Prosecutions Decline Under Trump Administration

[Quixote1818]

Federal efforts to combat human trafficking in the U.S. have slowed under the Trump administration, according to government data and human trafficking advocates, Axios reports.

There are thousands of trafficking victims in the U.S., including children trafficked into prostitution and agricultural and domestic workers who are paid little or nothing. The Trump administration has cut back on prosecutions of these crimes and assistance to victims.

Last year, the National Human Trafficking Hotline identified almost 15,000 people who were likely trafficked. That’s more than any year since at least 2012. The number of defendants charged with human trafficking by federal attorneys fell to 386 last year, from 553 in 2017, according to the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.

So far this year, federal attorneys have prosecuted 39 percent of the cases referred to them with child sex trafficking as the lead charge, according to Syracuse University.

That’s down from 49 percent in the last year of the Obama administration.

More: https://thecrimereport.org/2019/09/09/human-trafficking-prosecutions-decline-under-trump-administration/

[Midnight Writer]

1. Let's see. No testing, no Covid-19. Then no prosecutions, no child sex trafficking. Makes sense.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Republican party is the sociopath party

[Brainfodder]

3. That's still an appauling #!

That crime needs the death penalty apparently?

[Solly Mack]

4. But how can that be? Trump was all about ending human

trafficking in 2018.

That was sarcasm. In case it wasn't obvious.





https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-working-end-human-trafficking/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-taking-action-end-human-trafficking/

[crickets]

5. "more than any year since at least 2012" - winning. 😣

[Doreen]

6. Why would they prosocute human traffickers?

They would have to prosocute themselves. No one could convince me that they are not doing that with some of the peopke they have caged on the border. What happened to those 700 woman and girls who dissapesred from the vile detention camps?