Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms, photo, City of Atlanta

You may have heard that Atlanta’s mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms hates ICE and immigration enforcement and has stopped holding illegal aliens – including human trafficking criminals – in the Atlanta jail to prove it. Her Executive Order here.

The liberal Atlanta Daily World newspaper in Atlanta reports that Atlanta is now the nation’s major hub for human trafficking and child sex exploitation.

Atlanta is No. 1 Hub For Human Trafficking, Buckhead Cascade Links Launch Campaign to Fight It

Atlanta is routinely renowned as the capital of the south and home to civil rights and black political icons. Now, much to its chagrin, Atlanta has achieved a new dastardly distinction. It is the nation’s major hub for human trafficking and child sex exploitation.

More than 12 million human beings—and some 1 million children—are forcibly enslaved and trafficked worldwide in what has escalated into a $32 billion illegal industry. It is a shameful and sordid saga that tarnishes Atlanta’s otherwise impressive image.“I am so embarrassed that we go from number one as the most sex trafficking city in the United States,” laments childhood sexual abuse advocate Ann Platz, a board member of Well Spring Living. “That needs to grieve the citizens of Atlanta. While we are doing a lot of wonderful things, our children are being taken and other people’s children are being trafficked through our beautiful city. We need to be known as the city that stopped sex trafficking and that we ran it out of here.”… The entire report here.

The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division of ICE investigates violations and enforces human trafficking laws.

Would Mayor Bottoms rather virtue signal against ICE and immigration enforcement than protect children from sex exploitation?

We think the answer is “yes.”