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The people who are victims of sex trafficking are usually females vs males, often foreign/minority, and have few resources to call on in climbing out of the pit that sex trafficking has dropped them...
They fact that the government (Congress budget) increased the money available for this aspect of aiding victims and yet the DoJ has cut back on the money spent shows that the powers in Trump's WH and the DoJ (not everyone there is a liberal) view those who are the tools of sex-trafficking and powerless to fight their own "enslavement" as not worthy of redemption...
There seems to be a "moral" authority that judges those convicted of "prostitution" as unworthy of the use of federal monies to clean their records so they can attempt to gain viable employment or move into a more normal existance in society...
Despite the fact that this has been a recognized and implemented part of the justice system for years...cleaning up someone's record--just like removing gang tattoos--improves the possibility for rehabilitation and reinstatement in society...
This mysogenist (since most victims are female) view is part and parcel of the growing conservative/religious viewpoint that people like Sessions have carried throughout his career in law enforcement and others in Trump's cabal have brought into government...
Obama came across like an idiot when he tried to lecture on moral authority and who we are as Americans. Trying to revive that old BS is a loser.
As individuals we can figure it out for ourselves. We don't have to fit in someone else's idea or conform to liberal collective thought of one idea fits all. Dems defending hamas and MS-13 now want to claim the high ground and be the moral authority on sex trafficking.
The morally bankrupt trying to pull the wool over the plebes again.
misleading thread title. DOJ reduced funding for assistance for the "expungement of prostitution charges." The DOJ has taken a much harder stance on sex trafficking than other previous administrations.
misleading thread title. DOJ reduced funding for assistance for the "expungement of prostitution charges." The DOJ has taken a much harder stance on sex trafficking than other previous administrations.
Werent they trying to say the best way to get some of these girls out of human trafficking or prostitution, was actually to have them arrested?!!!! How stupid and ignorant a thing to suggest!
If they were trying to 'help' them thru arresting them, why would they slap the arrest on their permanent record, DUH?!
misleading thread title. DOJ reduced funding for assistance for the "expungement of prostitution charges." The DOJ has taken a much harder stance on sex trafficking than other previous administrations.
Not just prostitution charges - also criminal theft and all drug charges.
Apparently the new definition of "trafficking" is "worked for a pimp", new definition of "victim" is prostitute.
It's not that I don't feel sorry for these girls, boys, men, women who find themselves in this position - BUT the Victims of Crime office of the Justice Department has higher priorities than expunging the records of prostitutes.
They don't actually top the list of Victims of Crimes.
In the Obama Era - the Federal grants for Victims of Crimes went to victims of Police Shootings, Sanctuary City and illegal alien support and record expungement of course.
Perhaps getting back to basics like child abuse, spouse abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, disability abuse -- is not such a bad thing. Lots of money involved for some of these outfits set up to soak up Federal Dollars and you can expect that they will whine a lot to lose some of it.
There seems to be a "moral" authority that judges those convicted of "prostitution" as unworthy of the use of federal monies to clean their records so they can attempt to gain viable employment or move into a more normal existance in society...
It doesn't require federal tax-dollars for someone to have their criminal history expunged.
In some instances, it doesn't even require an attorney to have your records expunged.
Many women prostitute themselves for drug money, which is not the same thing as sex-trafficking.
Unless a woman is physically restrained, she is free to leave at any time, so it's not "sex-trafficking."
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