Evangelicals call on Ivanka Trump to protect detained unaccompanied migrant children
Now that presidential adviser Ivanka Trump has helped headline an anti-human trafficking initiative announced earlier this month by the White House, more than a dozen prominent evangelicals have written to her requesting she protect detained and deported migrant children from human trafficking.
In an open letter, more than a dozen evangelical leaders called upon the first daughter to ensure that her father’s administration adheres to federal anti-trafficking law in its treatment of unaccompanied migrant children.
After reminding her of her recent declaration that trafficking is “the gravest of human rights violations,” they urged her to “use your significant influence within the administration” to help end the suspension of a federal anti-trafficking law that had provided safeguards for unaccompanied children who cross the border.
Ivanka Trump spoke those words at the announcement of a $35 million in Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Human Trafficking being provided by the Office for Victims of Crime within the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs to provide housing and services to human trafficking survivors, the Associated Press reported earlier this month.
