Democrats say Trump’s immigration crackdown has undermined efforts to combat human trafficking

“I am incensed that federal resources from DHS, from [the justice department] – we’re talking about prosecutors, we’re talking about agents, we’re talking about funds – are being diverted away from anti-human trafficking programs and reassigned to immigration enforcement,” the California congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, who organized the letter, said in an interview. “It is a dereliction of duty to say the least, but it is egregious considering how heinous these crimes are.”