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Statement by Director Christopher Wray before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

The overall mission of the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children program is to protect children against harmful threats, including sex trafficking, online child exploitation, child abductions, and child sex tourism.

The women were forced to live and work in filth and near darkness, the federal agent said, surviving on only the tips they received from performing massages and...

>> are those collected through servitude to the cartels? >> in some cases, definitely. we are pursuing -- we have a number of human trafficking task forces as well as working on certain task forces with dhs to try to address that issue, but there's to question that the cartel activity on the other side of the border is spilling over in all sorts of ways, and you put your finger on one that is extremely concerning to us all. >> we basically, 170 plus years after the 13th amendment, have slavery burgeoning in this country as a result of these policies? >> well, certainly i do consider human traf...

Through serve constitute to the cartels? >> in some cases, definitely. you know, we are pursuing -- we have a number of human trafficking task forces as well as working on certain task forces with dhs to try to address that issue. but there is no question that the cartel activity on the other side of the border is spilling over in all sorts of ways. you just put your finger directly on one that is extremely concerning to us all. >> so we basically, 170 plus years after the 13th amendment have slavery burgeoning in this country as a result of these policies. >> certainly i do consider human tra...