Trump commits to return trafficked children after seeing Sound of Freedom
Jenny Goldsberry
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Former President Donald Trump announced a new campaign promise Friday after watching the movie Sound of Freedom.
“I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crises by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay,” Trump announced in a video on Truth Social. “And I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately, and that includes women.”
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Title 42 was a policy enacted under the Trump administration which allowed Border Patrol to expel immigrants without granting them an asylum hearing. Title 42 was enacted in March 2020 as a precaution during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Joe Biden has since rescinded the policy.
“Under my leadership we did more than any other administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern-day slavery,” Trump said, citing the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Re-authorization Act, the Abolish Human Trafficking Act, and other executive orders around the topic.
The announcement came after Trump hosted a screening of Sound of Freedom on Wednesday night at his golf course in New Jersey, with producer Eduardo Verastegui, lead actor Jim Caviezel, and former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard and his wife in attendance.
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The film depicts several operations organized by Ballard to rescue trafficked children in Colombia. In the video, Trump encouraged his over 5.7 million followers to watch the movie.
Angel Studios, the distributor of Sound of Freedom, told the Washington Examiner that the independent film has now grossed $100 million. Sound of Freedom bested Disney’s Indiana Jones sequel, and Sony Picture’s Insidious sequel at the box office.