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In 2022, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, India and Bangladesh were in the top 10 for countries with the largest number of trafficking victims around the world. Even so, it is estimated that between 18,000 and 20,000 victims are trafficked into the United States every year – 71% of whom enter the US legally. Since 2007, more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking have been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. The Mexican state of Tlaxcala has been identified as the biggest source of sex slaves to the US. In 2015, five out of 10 of Homeland Security's "most wanted" sex traffickers were from Tenancingo, in Tlaxcala. It is estimated that one in 10 people from Tenancingo were involved in human trafficking.

Pending Legislation: H.R.623 - Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Training Act
Sponsor: Rep. Vern Buchanan (FL)
Status: House Committee on Energy & Commerce
House Speaker: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA)



Options


  • I oppose reforming current child trafficking policy and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of either Kevin McCarthy (CA).
  • I support providing for the implementation of curricula for training students, teachers, and school personnel to understand, recognize, prevent, and respond to signs of human trafficking and exploitation in children and youth, and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.


Winning Option
  • I support providing for the implementation of curricula for training students, teachers, and school personnel to understand, recognize, prevent, and respond to signs of human trafficking and exploitation in children and youth, and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
There has been $0.00 pledged in support of this issue
Trustee Candidates

If elected as a trustee, the campaign committee of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA) will be unconditionally awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting her to favorably consider passing H.R.623 - Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Training Act

If elected as a trustee, Polaris Project will be awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting these funds be used to expand its efforts to reduce or eliminate child trafficking, provide services for victims, and work and advocate on their behalf.

Polaris is leading a data-driven social justice movement to fight sex and labor trafficking at the massive scale of the problem – 25 million people worldwide deprived of the freedom to choose how they live and work. For more than a decade, Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. With the guidance of survivors, we use that data to improve the way trafficking is identified, how victims and survivors are assisted, and how communities, businesses and governments can prevent human trafficking by transforming the underlying inequities and oppressions that make it possible.
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Trustee Election - Opening Date
June 5, 2023
Trustee Election - Closing Date
June 12, 2023