DHS Creates Center to ‘Combat and Dismantle’ Human Trafficking

Then Acting Secretary for Homeland Security Chad Wolf speaks about an initiative to prevent online child sexual exploitation, at the Justice Department in Washington on March 5, 2020. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the opening of its Washington-based Center for Countering Human Trafficking, calling it the first operations center of its kind supporting federal criminal investigations in the United States.

The DHS said in a statement on Oct. 20 that the initiative is part of a government commitment to combat human trafficking, an issue that President Donald Trump has made a hallmark of his administration.