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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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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 85 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 12 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 39 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] arin@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago

Underaged teen beauty pageants operated by Trump...

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] RaoulDuke@anarchist.nexus 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours 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.

[–] minnow@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours 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)

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 69 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 43 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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."

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 17 hours 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

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours 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.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours 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?

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 13 hours ago
[–] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 12 points 17 hours 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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours 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.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

"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."

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours 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.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours 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.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

They would.