having that comfort that comes with it.

If we allow for whatever reasons, whatever security--border security, counternarcotics--for ethnic cleansing to take place and we look the other way, we send a global message of what our priorities are.

It passed 413 to 2. It's sitting over in the Senate now for six months and I can't get it out on the floor for a vote.

We can't let this tragic issue fall into the pit where partisan divide causes important causes to be relegated to the cutting room floor as we have seen all too often.

Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Congress approved and the President signed legislation, historic bipartisan legislation that I authored, known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

The current humanitarian situation is not acceptable. Humanitarian access through the Lachin corridor and other routes must be available now.

I'm a great believer that when you fight human rights and combat human rights abuses for human rights and combat abuses, you've got to name names.

At the time too, many people thought when we said trafficking, including a number of U.S. attorneys that I talked to about what were they doing, they said, you're talking about weapons, right? You're talking about drugs, right? And I said…

This is especially concerning given recent reports that we have that there are Isis sympathizers smuggling Russian and Eastern Europeans across the border.

Congressman Smith's the SECURE Act in particular will help find these kids that this administration has claimed on record that it's not their problem anymore despite these children being at great risk of sexual abuse and other forms of…

President Aliyev says he is not organizing ethnic cleansing, but that is exactly what he is doing.

International Megan's Law seeks to protect children from sex tourism by notifying destination countries when convicted pedophiles plan to travel.

It is a hollow promise without action.

The TVPA created a bold domestic and international anti-human trafficking strategy and established numerous, dozens and dozens of new programs to protect victims, prosecute traffickers, and to the extent possible, prevent human trafficking…

The Presidents of Guatemala and Honduras both share the value they see in policies like International Megan's Law which allows the U.S. to alert our allies when registered sex offenders are entering their countries.

The cartel's picking and choosing who enters our country right now instead of us, and that is a significant threat to this country.

It is important that people know that we have a history of trauma in our country that we have overcome.

I am suspect of these books being taken out of libraries and schools.