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    Commentary: Katie Britt’s speech does a terrible disservice to sex trafficking victims

    by Marj Halperin, Chicago Tribune Mar 14, 2024 2 minutes
    Katie Britt listens as Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on March 29, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Mayorkas testified on the 2024 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security.

    Scarlett Johansson’s “Saturday Night Live” open was hilarious, and there have been so many more great jokes about the oddly amateur theatrics of U.S. Sen. Katie Britt in her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. But we can’t let the humor mask a patently cruel lie that was one of the cornerstones of her speech.

    Her story of the sex trafficking of in efforts to identify victims, fund victim assistance, prosecute cases and achieve convictions, particularly when government officials are involved.

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