It’s a good thing that, during the Super Bowl, 7 teenagers (under age 18) were rescued from prostitution and over a dozen pimps and 85 people soliciting sex were arrested.
However, human trafficking is a much larger problem. Employees in stores, restaurants, and nail salons are treated as virtual slaves. So are domestic workers, farm workers, and hotel/motel staff. They are men and women, adults and children, foreign-born and, yes, even U.S. citizens.
For details and statistics, including the number of cases reported in your state, go to https://traffickingresourcecenter.org/states.
I was pleased to see that sex traffickers were targeted during the Super Bowl. I want to know, though, why nothing was done to protect and rescue all those others.