The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has quietly removed details about child sex trafficking from its website amid rising sex crimes across the U.S.
According to reports, the DOJ’s information on sex trafficking, such as “International Sex Trafficking of Minors,” “Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors,” and “Child Victims of Prostitution” have all been taken down.
DOJ Quietly Removes Child Sex Trafficking Information From Its Websitehttps://t.co/UjaFZyQULY
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) July 13, 2023
“In these situations, traffickers recruit and transfer children across international borders to sexually exploit them in another country. The traffickers can be individuals working alone, organized crime groups, enterprises, or networks of criminals working together to traffic children into prostitution across country lines,” an excerpt about sex trafficking overseas read before it was removed.
“Once in the United States, a child may be trafficked to any or multiple states in the U.S. These victims are often trafficked far from home and thrown into unfamiliar locations and cultures. They may be given a false passport or other documentation to conceal their age and true identity. They may also struggle with the English language. All these factors make it extremely difficult for these children to come forward to law enforcement,” the deleted portion continued.
Sometime after May 12, another section warning Americans that domestic child trafficking frequently involves the exploitation of children in motel and hotel rooms across the nation was scrubbed from the DOJ website.
Republicans such as Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna have taken notice of the department’s bizarre behavior and called out the Biden administration for not treating child abuse crimes seriously enough.
Luna attributed the change to the Department of Health and Human Services, which recently lost track of nearly 85,000 migrant children released into government custody.
This comes as the U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers since President Joe Biden announced last year that he would be lifting “Title 42,” a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Since then, nearly 2.4 million migrants were detained at the border for the fiscal year ending in September, surpassing the already-historic number of 1.7 million migrant detainees in 2021. The numbers are likely to increase now that “Title 42” has been lifted.
