>>6589007 (PB)

Funny how what should be NEWS is tagged "Opinion", and what is opinion is passed off as "news" 24-7.

SO many (much lesser-known) NEWS outlets reporting countless accounts of the Child Trafficking abuse & stats while it's been ignored by MSM. Now buried on a holiday weekend, labeled as "opinion".

A more recent piece by a REAL NEWS sauce from March 4:

The scope of the problem is mind-boggling, going by a recent estimate by expert Timothy Ballard.

Ballard, founder of the anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad, said that as many as 10,000 children are trafficked into the United States every year to be used as sex slaves. Nevano concurs with Ballard’s estimate.

Previously, Ballard spent more than 12 years working as a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations in its child trafficking unit….

ICE made 1,588 human-trafficking arrests in fiscal year 2018—almost all for sex trafficking—and saved 308 victims who were trafficked to the United States.

Nevano said traffickers use all means of coercion and false promises to control their victims.

“They beat the children, the women, if they don’t continue to perform, if they don’t earn money, if they try to flee,” he said. “If they’re here undocumented, they take their documentation. They basically will extort them by saying that if you don’t perform these acts, we will call ICE, and ICE will come and arrest you.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/smugglers-extort-thousands-of-child-migrants-into-prostitution_2820027.html