Melysa asks how is the US faring at home? I am taking three quotes …
- ‘The U.S. State Department estimates that as many as 17,500 men, women and children are trafficked into the United States each year.’
- ‘What we do know is that too many child trafficking victims end up arrested and jailed or sent to juvenile detention instead of receiving necessary and deserved support services.’
- ‘Perhaps more disturbing, the U.S. child welfare system, charged with providing for America’s most vulnerable children, fails to protect youth from falling prey to traffickers.’