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Trump abortion rule deals 'devastating blow' to Planned Parenthood, group says

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-abortion-tax-dollar-planned-parenthood

In other news...

Prosecution of Child-Sex Traffickers Plummeted Under Trump


I wonder why when Republicans are in office, prosecution of child sex offender plummets?Why on Earth would that happen? Why did Acosta Trump's Labor Secretary cut the budget by 90% for the department who overseas child sex cases? Why would they do that? Could it be too many of their fellow Republicans keep getting caught? Why do Republicans want to protect Child sex traffickers?

https://www.courthousenews.com/prose...d-under-trump/

For many victims, last week’s incarceration of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein represents belated justice after more than a decade of impunity and governmental complicity.

Beneath that gloomy surface, however, an even darker picture emerges: federal prosecutions of those who trafficked children for sex dropped 26.7% over the last year.

The startling numbers appeared Tuesday in a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

“If the present pace of such prosecutions continues, the fiscal 2019 total will be 162, compared to 221 last year,” TRAC’s report states.

The Obama administration dramatically ramped up such prosecutions, climbing threefold from 85 cases in 2009, the year the 44th president took office, to more than 260 during his final year in the White House.

While those prosecutions held steady in the first year under President Donald Trump, TRAC’s analysis of Justice Department data says they have taken a dramatic plunge every year since.

“Compared to five years ago, the estimate of FY 2019 prosecutions of this type is down 32.2 percent, from 239,” the study says. “However, prosecutions over the past year are still much higher than they were ten years ago, up 90.6 percent from the 85 reported in 2009.”

TRAC obtained the data under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Southern District of New York, where Epstein was indicted last week, is tied with the Southern District of Texas as the most active pursuers of accused child sex-traffickers.

The Southern District of Florida, where Trump’s former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta let Epstein sign a 2008 nonprosecution agreement that shelved a 53-page indictment, does not even crack the top 10.

Reporting by the Miami Herald revealed that the plea deal immunized Epstein’s suspected co-conspirators from prosecution and allowed the tycoon to serve out a 13-month sentence for state-level prostitution charges in a county jail. Epstein took advantage of Florida’s work-release program six out of seven days a week.

Before criticism over the deal ended his tenure, Acosta pushed policies at the Department of Labor that pushed to divert resources from the mission of combating human trafficking. TRAC notes that individual U.S. attorneys have discretion over which cases to bring, but that prosecutors have increasingly declined referrals of cases involving child sex trafficking.

“When all referrals for federal prosecution for sex trafficking of children are examined, U.S. attorneys have generally turned down slightly more than half,” the study states. “In the last full year of the Obama Administration, federal prosecutors prosecuted 49 percent of these referrals. This percentage has been slipping since: during FY 2017 it was 46 percent and in FY 2018 it was 42 percent. So far in this fiscal year, Justice Department records show that the rate has fallen to 39 percent.”

The Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment.

In a telephone interview, a former federal prosecutor whose experience included numerous sex-trafficking cases argued that TRAC’s listing of cases filed, rather than the number of defendants, may have distorted the numbers. TRAC did not immediately respond to a press inquiry about this methodology.

Still, the former prosecutor emphasized, the Trump administration’s antagonism to an immigrant visa program meant to protect sex-trafficking survivors could put anti-trafficking enforcement in jeopardy.

“In order to make these cases, you need the victims to be willing to appear as witnesses, that willingness is provided because these women see a path to a better life by cooperating with the U.S. government,” said the ex-prosecutor, who requested anonymity to discuss the views of career Justice Department officials.

First issued in the year 2003, the T-visa program was designed to provide sex-trafficking survivors four years of legal status, food stamps, job training and a pathway for their families to immigrate to the United States.

Such protections had been crucial to recruit witnesses against sex traffickers, who may be waiting to kill victims and their loved ones in their countries of origin.

“If all they see is death, they will stop cooperating,” the prosecutor said, referring to the witnesses.

For the prosecutor, such a Sophie’s choice was not an abstraction.

“I have specific memories of specific girls and women who were petrified that their families would be killed if they turned up on the witness stand,” the prosecutor said, emphasizing the need to make them feel protected. “That is the key to having witnesses: No witness, no cases.”

Before his resignation, Acosta’s Labor Department threw up hurdles to limit authority to certify visas and proposed an 80% budget cut to the International Labor Affairs Bureau, charged with combating human trafficking and child labor domestically and internationally.

House Democrats drafted a proposal on May 15 that would expand the program’s funding from $68 million to $122 million.

Two years brett gilliat aka Vendzilla has been selling insurance in Van Nuys and he still can't post alt-right hate links right on GFY

Sign of his times :2 cents:

Why do you hate women? Is it because you were fired from Playboy?

Well? Why do you hate women? Why don't you want women to get good health care?

Incels hate women. Obese insurance salesmen in the valley like Brett don't get laid.

Blocked alt-right hate fake nic in to defend Vendzilla in 3.. 2.. 1...

I'm pretty sure most people in our society have more respect for an insurance salesman than they have for a gay pornographer with AIDS.

Why do you hate women so much you want them unarmed so they can be at the mercy of any rapist that can physically overpower them? Why would you rather a woman be brutally raped than have a rapist shot dead?

Why do hate women and support rapists, Mark?

and the symbol of hate... the maple leaf :helpme

People like Vendildo are brainwashed into thinking that Planned Parenthood only exists to perform abortions. In reality, PP provides STD testing and treatment, birth control, well-woman exams, cancer screening and prevention, abortion, hormone therapy, infertility services, and general health care.

Vendildo's flippant attitude towards Trump and other Republicans actions to shut it down is fucking awful, and goes to show how ill informed he is, and or how much he doesn't care enough about women and his fellow Americans to get more information.

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I just realized, is this going to effect planned Parenthoods donations to the DNC?

Why do YOU hate women, Mark? Why would you rather see a woman raped than defend herself with a firearm?

Post links to where I said that.

You support a woman's right to own and carry a concealed firearm?

Why yes I do, Vendildo, OOPS I mean escorpio.

And by the way I notice you didn't answer the question. Post a link to where I ever said what you said.

Still waiting for a reply, escorpio...

i get that some people need an abortion.
I feel that it should not be entered into lightly.
right now it seems like anyone can have an abortion right up until the day before birth

About half the states already have some kind of law in place banning late term abortion.

Damn, please stop quoting this idiot, if he read what he did, it addresses that problem

Damn people, Trump made it so that Planned Parenthood has to show that the federal money is not going to abortions. Writing them a blank check isn't going to happen anymore.

So you idiots that are going on about women's health, that will not change, quit being retarded and read for once

How many abortions has Trump paid for ??????

You're the one who keeps making endless mistakes, and who keeps getting shot down again and again, Vendildo. I know it sucks to be you these days, but be a man and deal with it with some dignity for fuck sakes.

You have a daughter, right? Why don't you ask her what she thinks about Planned Parenthood? In fact, don't ask her - its none of your business.

Somehow I don't see that as a problem

Hypocrite

Sorry, doing shit in the real world.


I thought you were an anti-gun nut. I'm sure as hell not going to do a Blaidwire and go through your posts for hours trying to find a smoking gun. Way too lazy. I smoke weed, not meth.


Apparently I was gravely mistaken! You are a gun supporter! If you support a woman's right to carry a gun and shoot an attacker you also support a man's right to do the same, I assume? That's great! Why have I never seen you complain about Canada's gun laws?


Have you ever thought about starting an organization to make Canada's gun laws similar to the gun laws in Arizona? Would probably be a more constructive use of your time than the Trump hate.

You've got me all wrong, son.

First, I enjoy weed too.

Next, your 2nd amendment guarantees you the right to own guns. The whole Militia thing is a debate for another time, but yes, anyone can legally have a gun.

If a woman or anyone is attacked and the only way to defend yourself is to shoot, then Bang Bang Bang away.

What I don't agree with, are the loopholes in the gun laws. Criminals can still legally buy guys. Mentally challenged people can still buy guns. Anyone can buy a bunch of assult rifles, etc, and all with little to no licensing or training.

I'm also against the current practices of the NRA. The NRA used to be a good organization. Today it is little more than a gun lobby that spews crazy right-wing propaganda and may have funnelled Russian money into the Trump campaign. But that's another discussion too.

Now you know where I stand.

Cool! Why don't you put some of your Trump Hate Energy into changing Canada's oppressive gun laws? Don't Canadian women deserve the ability to defend themselves against rape?

Why would he? Last time I checked, we don't have a mass-shooting epidemic. Nothing to fix if it ain't broken.

Women in Canada are never attacked and raped?

Are women in the US never attacked and raped?

I don't think you're following along quite as well as you think you are. :1orglaugh

Answer the question and I will show you how well I am following along :)

Go back, read the thread slowly and realize your question is irrelevant because you're trying to argue the wrong point. :winkwink:

Its not irrelevant, I'm answering your question here: "Don't Canadian women deserve the ability to defend themselves against rape?"

I'm not surprised you would back down though. It was a really stupid question on your part.

What is it you think I'm advocating for? You really need to go back and read the thread.

Save us all the guessing game and tell us what you're advocating for.

Who's "us all"? You seem to be the only one confused and trying to play "gotcha." Go back, read slowly. Read it again, if you need to.

You must be TheSquealer's fake nick. Like him, you don't have the balls to answer a simple question. Your shit is weak as usual.

Tell me what you're advocating for.

Like Blaidswire, you're too stupid to read and comprehend so you have to ask stupid questions. I'm not your remedial reading coach, dipshit.

Lol you're such a limp dick pussy you can never answer a question straight up because you know it will backfire on you. Why? Because your arguments never make sense and the second someone confronts you about it, you waffle to avoid getting called out for being the dumbass you are.

Here I am, asking you to simply clarify your stance so that anyone reading this is clear what it is, and you don't have the balls to even do that.

Or maybe you're so messed up in the head you don't even know what your actual stance is.

Nice melt, bitch. :1orglaugh

You really think I'm having a melt down? Now who's the one with bad reading comprehension skills lol

Whatever you say, champ.

https://creationsciencestudy.files.w...pg?w=499&h=376

Most people here have him on ignore.

I've had him on ignore for over a year. He's purely an alt-right hate shitposter that trolls people who respond to him. He has zero value as a human being. Just an FYI

^^^
CAUTION! Gay stalker!

I'm fully aware of it. Him, Squealer, Hunglo, Acepimp and their fake nicks are all obvious idiots. Its just fun to waste time dismantling whatever semblance of an argument they try to make.

I know it will never lead anywhere. They lack the necessary skills to understand the depth of their ignorance. Any attempt to interact with them will invariably lead to one of them parroting whatever stupid rhetoric they saw on Facebook. Then they'll high-five and circle jerk each other while thinking they actually made some sort of point. The rest of the world will just roll their eyes and continue on their business.

But in the end, reading their posts is like watching a car wreck happening in slow motion: You know you should look away because something awful is happening right in front of you... but at the same time, there is some sort of morbid curiosity to see just how fucked up things are going to get.

You seem supremely frustrated at your inability to simply read and understand the thread. Raging that someone won't explain it to you is funny and sad at the same time. :):(

I don't need you to explain it to me. I know that no matter what I answer, you'll deny thats what you meant and try to twist your initial posts to mean something else by playing the "you don't know how to read, thats not what I meant" card. That's why you wont commit to answering my very simple question: what are you advocating for?

And you won't answer that question because you know that your initial comments about Canada needing less strict gun laws so women can defend themselves from rape is absolutely idiotic and impossible to defend.

You hate women and don't want to see rapists hurt. That's very polite of you!