Regarding Glenn Kessler’s Feb. 10 Fact Checker column, “Trump’s fantastical claims about the pervasiveness of human trafficking”:President Trump’s human trafficking claims are not only egregiously false but also dangerous and destructive. Many foreign trafficking victims enter the United States through legal means and, once in the country, are exploited through debt bondage, threats of deportation and other forms of coercion. As the column suggested, the emphasis on creating a border wall to stop trafficking implies that victims are mostly foreign-born. However, many trafficking victims are U.S. citizens. No border wall will prevent trafficking from occurring within the United States.

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2019 22:18 UTC