1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

A disturbing but clear pattern is emerging in this President's second term: sex crimes against children and human trafficking have become easier to get away with. Without any reduction in Congressional spending allocations, the Department of Justice has dramatically cut funding and training avenues for law enforcement and prosecutors of sex crimes against children (Guardian, January 24), beginning last year with the cancellation of their yearly National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation. The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce is a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies that combats any child exploitation that has an online component. They have lost necessary training and networking. Additionally, DOJ and the Administration have withheld their sustaining revenue, though the funds were already authorized by Congress and issued to ICAC as grants.  One of the President's first day executive orders mandated that every component of DHS prioritize civil violations of immigration law above other responsibilities. According to the CATO Institute, ICE surges throughout 2025 diverted 28,390 officers from their actual law enforcement jobs to sweep communities for everyday immigrants both with and without procedural allowance to remain in the U.S. For the thousands of diverted Homeland Security Investigations officers alone, this meant "suspending investigations into human trafficking, child exploitation, cybercrime, weapons export controls, intellectual property, theft, drugs, and terrorism" to arrest undocumented immigrants. And of course, despite legislation requiring that DOJ release all documents illuminating the network that allowed notorious sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to exploit and abuse so many girls and women, both DOJ and the Administration continue to obstruct, downplay, and fight the required release in court. I urge you to: •See the pattern for what it is and treat the collaboration as the criminal enterprise that it is •Impeach Pam Bondi for the lasting and likely irreparable damage this blind eye to human trafficking and child sex crimes is having •Pass legislation requiring that Congressional funds be used for their intended purpose and attach clear legal consequences for noncompliance