Trump floats death penalty for human trafficking

Former President Donald Trump on Friday floated imposing the death penalty for human trafficking should he return to the White House in 2025.

Trump made the announcement following a screening of "Sound of Freedom" at his Bedminster estate. The anti-trafficking film features Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, who goes on a mission to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia.

"'Sound of Freedom' has been a national sensation and a colossal success at the box office... everyone should see it," he said, before touting his efforts to target transnational trafficking efforts while in office.

"When I am back in the white house I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable woman and children," he vowed. "We will fully secure the border I will wage war on the cartels just as I did destroyed the ISIS caliphate."

"I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay," he continued. "And I will urge congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately and that includes also for woman."

"Together we will end the scourge of human trafficking and we will defend the dignity of human life," he concluded.

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