Anti-Trafficking Groups To Boycott Ivanka Trump’s White House Summit – By Jake Thomas (Intellectualist) / Jan 29 2020
First daughter Ivanka Trump will host an anti-trafficking summit at the White House on Friday, an event her father plans to attend, but several of the country’s most prominent anti-human-trafficking groups and advocates have decided not to attend, according to The Washington Post.
The organizations boycotting the summit include “Polaris, the nonprofit organization that runs the national human-trafficking hotline, and the leader of Freedom Network USA, the country’s largest anti-trafficking coalition.”
Their decisions came after months of agonizing over what to do, The Post noted, and were largely determined by one factor: the Trump administration’s hostility toward immigrants.
“We have such a chasm between rhetoric and reality,” Martina Vandenberg, the founder of the Human Trafficking Legal Center, told the newspaper. “This administration is undermining protections carefully built for trafficking victims over two decades.”
One of the most alarming issues raised by advocates is that of T visas, “which provide temporary legal status for immigrants who can prove they were trafficked while in the United States.” Under President Donald Trump, T visas are receiving more scrutiny — as is immigration in general.
Continue to article: https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/anti-trafficking-groups-to-boycott-ivanka-trump-s-white-house-summit-Tnldi5wYH02EP65QIfcxBw
