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Senator Hawley's Floor Speech on Provision Included in Reconciliation Bill to Rescue Trafficked Kids

Published | Video Starts at 05:01

There are too many children whose lives are being destroyed even as we speak. We have terrific federal investigators whose job is, whose work is to identify and find these children. At the Department of Homeland Security, there's an entire unit called the Cyber Crimes Unit that contains and includes forensic investigators who analyze the sorts of images that were posted here that you see reflected on this map, who analyze them and try to find where the children are. Here's the only problem with that. There's only seven of them. That's right. There's seven forensic analysts, seven experts who can analyze these images. 90,000 images at least, that the government knows of with these lost children. (05:01–05:23)

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Asserts that the DHS Cyber Crimes Unit has only seven forensic analysts for child exploitation cases.

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