Follow-up to this post
Children do cross the border alone, and it's not just a few. U.S. Customs and Border Protection report an average of 435 unaccompanied kids per day in May 2023. It's thought that over half of them will end up in prostitution, forced labor, and child porn.
Kidnapping (as in "Sound of Freedom") happens, but a Texas organization estimates that over half of child trafficking victims are recruited on social media. Kids in the U.S. sex trade usually start at the age of 12-14. The most vulnerable is a child in a single-parent home with an unrelated male living there.
Predators pay about $90 to rent a child who may work six days per week with twenty rentals per day. How would a child ever recover from something like this?
"Sound of Freedom" is being attacked. But for its producer, Eduardo Verastegui, the movie was just his attempt to help bring an end to child trafficking. Every American should be able to support that.
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