To understand what is happening at the border we have to go back to at least 2008. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 passed with broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by George W. Bush on December 23rd, 2008. That law required that children encountered at the border be admitted and an investigation completed. No wonder Congress and evangelicals were in a hurry to get it passed. There were many cases of child abuse and trafficking that placed the US State Department in the position of returning children to traffickers and gangs seeking protection payments and prostitutes. The primary group lobbying for this law was evangelicals This didn’t entirely stop when the law was passed either.
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