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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.

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[-] [email protected] 106 points 3 days ago

Literally fucking campaigned on this shit. I'm so fucking disgusted people keep voting for a guy that just keeps pissing in their faces

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

If they're anything like their golden(-showering) god, they're into it.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago

Well of course he doesn't want any more of his buddies swept up and mysteriously suicided.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

Seriously, how many kids did he touch? This is getting ridiculous. It has been for sometime.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Underaged teen beauty pageants operated by Trump...

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago

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."

[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

No, this is the definition of supporting pedophiles because that is what they do and that is who they are

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This is the definition of "when all you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail."

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Can't expect any different from an obvious PEDOPHILE

[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago

Nooo. It was totally only Epstein. Nobody else wants to rape kids...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Just preparing for after his presidency...

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

So where are the "kill your local pedophile" folks?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

A lot of those pedo hunters are in fact…pedos. They just project.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It’s the mythos of “white slavery.”

They want to protect children against swarthy foreigners, ala Taken. A white teenage girl married off to a white adult man is fine.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Turns out they were just fascists who will say whatever they think will gain them the most power in any particular situation, and they never actually cared about anything but that power.

Now that going after pedophiles doesn't get them power, they don't care. But don't worry, they'll revive that rhetoric when they decide it's time to go after "groomers" (ie LGBTQ people)

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

So, hard working migrants. No. Child sex slaves. Yes?! Wtf.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It makes sense when you realize they hate brown people and love raping children.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

They are far too concerned with rolling back human rights, attacking their political enemies, various money-making schemes, "owning the libs", making everyone not a billionaire absolutely miserable, and of course, covering up for the pedo-in-chief.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

More children for him and his Gang Of Paedos to rape.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

... a gang-o-ped if you will (which you shouldn't!).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

You see, nothing illegal happened on Trump-Epstein island. /s

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

The fuck ...with all their save the children pearl clutching bullshit?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

They NEVER CARED ABOUT THE CHILDREN.

Everything they say is an excuse they think will be difficult to argue against, it they use it to dilute the very same accusations used against them.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

"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."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Remove half of the context and it finally becomes accurate:

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Even for a veteran trump-watcher sometimes we forget there's no bottom. It only ever gets worse.

Still - I thought I couldn't respect the Qanut/MAGA/"What-about-the-children" people any less. And here we are.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

hm i wonder why

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Don't want it to distract from more important things like identifying people who make fascists sad online or fabricating a case against an innocent Italian plumber.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They would.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Well they are going to need a fresh supply of little ones, and it's not like they grow on trees, you know. Now that they control the government, they're in a sweet position to get new kids and make it legal to do whatever with them

Maybe this was the reason for trump to become president in the first place?

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