Trump wants ‘immediate’ death penalty for human traffickers

BEDMINSTER, N.J. (FLV) – Former President Donald Trump continued the fleshing out of his 2024 presidential campaign platform, releasing a video pledging to support the death penalty for human traffickers.

“I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately,” Trump said in an Agenda47 video.

The announcement comes after Trump hosted a screening of Sound of Freedom, a new film detailing the evils of human trafficking.

“Under my leadership, we did more than any administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern day slavery,” Trump said. “In one of my first acts in office, I signed an executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit innocent people.”

“I signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking,” Trump said.

“When I'm back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children,” he continued. “We will fully secure the border. I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate.”

Trump also vowed to use Title 42 – an emergency rule allowing the federal government to more swiftly deport illegal migrants – to return “all trafficked children” back to their families in their home countries.

The former president has ran similarly strongly against illegal immigration and for border protections as he did in 2016 and 2020, also announcing in late May to end “automatic citizenship” for the children of illegal migrants.

“The United States is among the only countries in the world that says that even if neither parent is a citizen nor even lawfully in the country, their future children are automatic citizens,” he said.

“On day one of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law going forward: the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic us citizenship.”