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Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking
Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking
Forced labor and prostitution among underage migrants more than tripled under President Joe Biden. (Photo by Guillermo Arias via Getty Images, all illustrations by The Free Press)
Biden’s border policies have led to an explosion in the forced prostitution of migrants in the U.S. ‘If I wanted to, I could order a girl within 15 minutes.’
By Madeleine Rowley
10.14.24 — U.S. Politics
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Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking

DALLAS, TEXAS — Lisa slides a Hellcat pistol into her backpack, slinging it over her shoulder. She jumps out of the driver’s seat of her massive Ford F-250 as we head into a barbecue joint for lunch. Steel brass knuckles glint in the console beside a pencil-shaped, pronged object. She sees me looking at it. 

“That’s my stabby-stick,” Lisa says before I e…

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Madeleine Rowley
Madeleine Rowley is an investigative reporter covering immigration, financial corruption, and politics. She is a 2023-2024 Manhattan Institute Logos Fellow with previous bylines in The Free Press, City Journal, and Public. As a U.S. Army spouse for almost a decade, she's lived in six states and spent two years in Jerusalem, Israel. She currently resides on the East Coast with her husband and daughter.
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