Youngkin calls for multinational support to remove trafficking networks

Arlington, Virginia – Governor Glenn Youngkin prescribes his plan to target human trafficking at his annual meeting Tuesday, saying Trump administration It has been a shooting by state law enforcement when it tries to solve the elusive problem.

Youngkin, joined by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and other state attorneys generals, has drawn trafficking enforcement and addressing transnational gangs.

“We have to get multi-state and federal support to remove the network, not just arrest one person, we have to dismantle the network,” Youngkin told a crowd of hundreds of people.

Youngkin says Trump administration’s law enforcement on human trafficking has always been a blessing Ministry of Justice After the inauguration, White House officials discussed the matter and found they accepted it. Virginia law enforcement has since coordinated with the federal government to defeat foreign gang operations, which Youngkin said overlaps with human trafficking space. Youngkin takes gang crimes in the Correctional Center as an example, saying it was the first “thread” his team pulled up.

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“We can cancel the kick [MS-13 gangs] “What we found was a huge network of incarcerated criminals running out, and once both FBI tools and homeland security tools and state police tools could be released, the organization’s map was on the organization’s walls, and any other work charts,” Youngkin said.

Miyares said in an interview with Fox News Digital that he made requests from the inter-agency task force to Biden Administration to address MS-13, Tren de Aragua and other gangs, but the requirements were “deaf ears.” By contrast, the Trump administration has taken swift action, he said.

“It’s not just drug trafficking. Human trafficking is an important part of it. … Within 30 days, [the Trump administration] Both approved it and provided us with inter-agency space for Manassas’s FBI field office, a huge space where we collectively own federal, state and local law enforcement. ” Miyares said.

In March, prosecutors from Eastern Virginia announced that the task force had arrested 342 people, many of whom had illegal status, and 81 of them had “gang or transnational criminal relations.”

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President-elect Donald Trump spoke at a meeting with Republican governors, and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin watched on Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 9, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Violations of human trafficking are primarily governed by the Victims of Trafficking Protection Act, a law that has been more than twenty years. An incident may involve a person forcing or forcing another person to perform labor or sexual acts. Perpetrators tend to target children, women and vulnerable groups, such as those living in financial difficulties, fleeing natural disasters or struggling psychologically.

Youngkin said trafficking was a “clear” issue.

Miyares responded to these views, saying that trafficking violations are “multi-faceted.” He cited the circumstances of missing children in his state and arrested in 2022 after immigration was immigrant. Discover Working illegally in a laundry facility in Williamsburg.

Attorney General Jason Miyares joined President Donald Trump at a rally held at Greenbrier Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia on June 28, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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West Virginia But foster children in the state are particularly vulnerable, following the incident, Attorney General JB McCuskey told Fox News Digital after accepting trafficking cases that “all look very different”. He said he hopes to use artificial intelligence to use data across institutions to gain a stronger grasp of the issue.

“I think the next biggest step is to build these communication bridges between institutions. … because once a child is found, [police] “It needs to be aware of everything right away and need to be in a centralized place so that the right decisions can be made very, very quickly. Because these things happen very quickly and a day and a half can ruin the lives of children because adults make bad decisions based on bad interventions.”