Nick Freitas: Are US immigration laws fueling child trafficking?

Laws are often passed under the guise of protecting the vulnerable, but sometimes they hurt the very people they’re intended to protect.

And immigration policy expert Lora Ries is no stranger to this, telling BlazeTV host Nick Freitas that this has been going on for decades when it comes to child trafficking and immigration policy.

“In 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act became law and it created a T visa for victims of trafficking even though we already had something called an S visa, which was nicknamed, you know, the snitch visa,” she explains.

The “snitch visa” allowed immigrants to “temporarily come into the U.S., help this prosecution testify in a criminal case, … and then depart.”

“Instead of using that, which they should have done,