Ivanka Trump Wants to Spotlight New Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts — but Some Advocates Are Boycotting
to support anti-trafficking work, including a call for tens of millions in new funding, some of the experts on the issue have taken exception with what they call the administration’s hypocrisy.
“We have such a chasm between rhetoric and reality,” Martina Vandenberg, the founder of the Human Trafficking Legal Center, a network of attorneys who take on trafficking cases, told the. “This administration is undermining protections carefully built for trafficking victims over two decades.
In 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that those who apply for T visas and get denied could face immigration court and be deported, leaving immigrants who become human trafficking victims frightened to risk applying for the visa, experts told the“We hear time and time again: Why would I risk myself? Why would I risk my family?” said Deborah Pembrook, a trafficking survivor who helps T visa applicants in California.
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