Recently the American people have been bombarded with stories of human traffickers making their way into the United States, people who can only be stopped by a border wall.
Yet, despite this and many other public condemnations of human trafficking, the Trump administration is doing little to actually solve the problem.
Painting human trafficking as an issue that can be solved with stricter immigration policies discounts the fact that traffickers are often family members, not foreign invaders.
Utah, and the United States, must take a stronger stand on both national and international human trafficking, and avoid narrowing our perception of the issue to a one-size-fits-all, concrete-and-steel-beam solution.
Isy Pacini, South Salt Lake