{"id":4421,"date":"2019-01-09T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomnetworkusa.org\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:02:49","slug":"fnusa-release-joint-statement-on-presidents-address-on-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomnetworkusa.org\/2019\/01\/09\/fnusa-release-joint-statement-on-presidents-address-on-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"FNUSA Release Joint Statement on President&#8217;s Address on Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Freedom Network USA joins the Human Trafficking Legal Center to issue a joint statement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2019\/01\/09\/donald-trump-full-address-immigration-border-wall-cpt-vpx.cnn\">President&#8217;s Trump Oval Office address<\/a> on January 8, 2019. As the largest coalition of human trafficking experts in the United States, we are intimately familiar with the realities of this crime.\u00a0The Trump Administration\u2019s cynical manipulation of human trafficking as a political pawn in the government shutdown cannot stand. For months, the Trump Administration has used the rhetoric of human trafficking \u201cprevention\u201d as cover for vicious attacks on all immigrants, including victims of trafficking. The fact is that his increased enforcement policies make people more vulnerable to human trafficking &#8211; not less.<\/p>\n<p>A border wall will not stop traffickers. The government shutdown will harm trafficking victims.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the facts in our statement <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomnetworkusa.org\/app\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Freedom-Network-and-the-Human-Trafficking-Legal-Center-statement-January-8-2019.pdf\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you to our colleagues at HTLC for spearheading this effort.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Freedom Network USA joins the Human Trafficking Legal Center to issue a joint statement on President&#8217;s Trump Oval Office address on January 8, 2019. 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