That arrangement creates a debt that cartels all too often leverage to force children into forced labor or sexual exploitation. Once the child reached the United States. To be clear, this is not merely a human trafficking crisis. The same transnational criminal organizations profiting from child trafficking are responsible for trafficking the fentanyl that killed 76,000 Americans in 2023 alone. This convergence of drug trafficking, human trafficking and and violence led President Trump to designate a number of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, arming federal prosecutors with tools to combat trafficking that were unavailable under the Biden administration. (04:17–04:31)
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Asserts that the organizations involved in child trafficking also trafficked fentanyl, which killed 76,000 Americans in 2023.
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