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Biden Signs Countering Human Trafficking Act of 2022

Biden Signs Countering Human Trafficking Act of 2022
Mourners embrace at the funeral for 16-year-old Tioni Theus, whose body was discovered on the side of a freeway in South Los Angeles after she was shot and killed, on Jan. 27, 2022. The District Attorney said she may have been a human trafficking victim. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Jeff Louderback
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President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill on Dec. 27, 2022, that codifies and expands the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT).

The Countering Human Trafficking Act of 2022 provides $14 million to the CCHT. Part of that money will be used to staff the organization with “at least 45 employees to carry out the Department’s critical work to combat human trafficking,” according to a DHS press release.

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