Despite the political controversy that has ensued since the latest presidential election, Ivanka Trump hosted an anti-human trafficking meeting in the White House last week. She also organized a listening session in February, and was in attendance with President Donald Trump, her father.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been conducting interagency meetings to understand the scope of the issue (of human trafficking), as well as gathering recommendations from the academic, public and private sector,\u201d Ivanka Trump explained. \u201cToday, we bring an additional and critical group to the table, legislative leaders, to discuss concrete steps through legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0CNN<\/a>, Ivanka Trump met with bipartisan, bicameral lawmakers. \u00a0This included House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Heidi Heitkamp, and various anti-human trafficking experts.\u00a0Klobuchar, Corker, and Heitkamp each have experience in combating human trafficking in the Senate.<\/p>\n Ivanka Trump further declared this week to be\u00a0\u201cCombating Trafficking and Child Protection Week\u201d in Congress. She expects nine pieces of legislation that will deal with human trafficking directly.<\/p>\n (Image source: wikimedia commons)<\/em><\/p>\n Please note:\u00a0Operation Underground Railroad remains nonpartisan with no political affiliations or bias, but will acknowledge all efforts made, especially by those of influence, in fighting human trafficking.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0http:\/\/ourrescue.org\/blog\/ivanka-trump-hosts-anti-human-trafficking-roundtable-discussion-at-white-house\/<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the political controversy that has ensued since the latest presidential election, Ivanka Trump hosted an anti-human trafficking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Combating Trafficking and Child Protection Week<\/h2>\n
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