It makes it harder for you to find these kids.

Thank you, Senator Heitkamp, and thank you for your leadership on this.

This is a step the Senate has not taken in 20 years.

What concern does that practice give you?

For victims, the toll of sex trafficking is measured in stolen childhoods and long-lasting trauma. For traffickers, it is measured in dollars, often a lot of dollars.

One of the obvious concerns I see here is that when you edit an ad and change its wording, of course, you are not changing the underlying transaction.

For God's sake, she is only 16.

It is not about questions of privilege.

We will not be deterred.

This is a problem and this goes to our need to have a secure border, not just for immigration purposes, but for money, guns, drugs, and certainly for terrorism.

I think it is clear that we live in a dangerous world and it is something we have to be concerned about.

But I do not think we should ignore the refugee side of it, either.