US Is a Top Destination for Child Sex Trafficking, and It’s Happening in Your Community

• According to the Federal Human Trafficking Report, “In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the U.S. were sex trafficking cases involving only children.”
• Like all crimes, trafficking has a context. In the U.S., child trafficking is aggravated by four main factors: the porous southern border, predatory social media use, pornography, and broken families.
• The crisis at the southern border is directly linked to an increase in child trafficking in the United States. In April, a whistleblower told Congress’ House Judiciary Committee that the “United States federal government has become the ‘middleman’ in a multibillion-dollar human trafficking operation targeting unaccompanied minors at the southern border.”
• The Biden administration must follow our existing laws and seal our porous southern border. Much more must be done, but that is a critical first step that could save thousands of children each year from these horrors.

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Pushing LGBTQ Agenda, Top California Educrat Disrupts School Board Meeting. Board Rules Against Him Anyway.

• School is not even back in session yet, but some state education officials are still trying to restrict parents’ influence over their children.
• At a school board meeting Thursday in Chino Valley, California, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond rose in opposition to a board proposal that said if a student chooses to assume a “gender” at school that contrasts with his or her sex, school officials should notify families.
• The board’s policy is similar to The Heritage Foundation’s model “Given Name Act,” which says educators cannot address a child by a name or pronoun that does not align with information on a child’s birth certificate without parent consent.
• Students wrestling with the changes that come during puberty and other growing pains need compassion and thoughtful counseling. They need adults to help them cope with the underlying issues causing them distress.
• California state policy misinterprets federal laws concerning family and student privacy and drives a wedge between children and parents.

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China Abandons Paris Agreement, Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless

• It was a bad week for anyone who thought China would cooperate on emissions reduction.
• President Xi Jinping reiterated that his country would set its own path on the issue and not be influenced by outside factors, according to the Washington Post and Bloomberg. This contradicts Xi’s 2015 Paris Agreement pledges to reduce its carbon emissions at the latest after 2030.
• Xi’s remarks should resound in the halls of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is planning to impose billions of dollars of costs on Americans to reduce U.S. emissions. China has repeatedly stated that it has no intention of going along with the Western push to net-zero.
• The EPA has America on a path to all pain and no gain.

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