ATLANTA — U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced the Justice Department would be issuing grants of more than $100 million dollars to organizations that combat human trafficking.
“We’ve marshalled all our forces to fight this criminal activity and to do what we can to help the survivors,” Barr said while making the announcement from the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Monday." This is one of the top enforcement priorities of the department.
Barr was joined at the announcement by Ivanka Trump, Governor Brian Kemp, First Lady Marty Kemp and even former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow whose foundation is helping fight human trafficking.
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“This is a calling,” Tebow said during the roundtable discussion that included law enforcement, health care and non-profit organizations. “It’s a calling because we believe it is the greatest form of evil in the world today.”
Because it is a transportation hub, Georgia was identified early on as a hub also for human trafficking, but Barr said they were there to learn about the strides the state made to fight it.
“Because Georgia has been a model in terms of how to approach this problem,” Barr said. “Ivanka and I will take this around the country and see if we can have a lot of states adopt a lot of the positive things that have been done here in Georgia.”
“We’re not going to allow another victim in this nation if we can prevent it,” Ivanka Trump said.
Channel Two Action News attempted to question Barr and Trump, a presidential advisor, about President Trump’s possible pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court, but they did not take questions after the roundtable discussion.
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