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The U.S. changed its reporting procedures for human trafficking involving migrant children, raising concerns among advocates. The AP investigation found the shift may obscure the scale of trafficking.
The U.S. government altered its reporting procedures for documenting human trafficking cases involving migrant children. An AP investigation found that the change may obscure the true scale of trafficking by changing what incidents get counted and how they're recorded. Advocates say the shift makes it harder to track how many children are actually being victimized.
Changing how you measure something is often how you make a problem disappear on paper without solving it. If fewer trafficking cases get officially recorded, the statistics will look better—but the actual trafficking doesn't stop. This matters because accurate numbers drive policy decisions and funding allocations. When the government controls the definition of what counts as trafficking, it controls what the public and Congress think is happening.
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