“We have such a chasm between rhetoric and reality,” said Martina Vandenberg, the founder of the Human Trafficking Legal Center, a network of attorneys who take on trafficking cases. Earlier this month, Ivanka visited two residential facilities for trafficking victims in Atlanta. One of the survivors planning to attend the summit is Courtney Litvak, who met with Ivanka at the White House in November. Advocates who assist foreign-born victims say the majority of them immigrated legally using tourist or work visas and were exploited once in America. But most trafficking victims are U.S. citizens, like Litvak, whose high school friends in Katy, Tex., introduced her to the person who became her trafficker.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2020 12:00 UTC