Dossier
child smuggling
Coverage of child smuggling in the Nexus archive.
- A well-meaning law has opened a child smuggling loophole at our border
The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 has created a loophole that allows unaccompanied children to be exploited by criminal cartels, who then smuggle them into the U.S. under the guise of legal protection. Critics argue the law unintentionally incentivizes child trafficking.