Jaco Booyens: Trafficking Epidemic Fueled by Lockdowns, Police Cuts, and a Porous Border | TEASER

🔴Watch the full episode—now available for *free* on #EpochTV! https://ept.ms/3yg4ozG Sex trafficking has spiked during the pandemic, as kids and teens in lockdown spend much of their waking hours on social media where traffickers and pimps can easily reach them, says anti-trafficking activist Jaco Booyens. Near the U.S.-Mexico border, traffickers are exploiting U.S. border policies and children are “being exploited and sold like cattle,” Booyens says. Police funding cuts have compounded the crisis. Departments targeting trafficking tend to be small and highly specialized—and they’ve been the first to go in the defund the police movement, Booyens says. In this episode,…