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Human Trafficking Actions Too Narrow

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.