U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Sept. 4 that human trafficking across the Canada-U.S. border is getting worse.
Her comments come only a week after she met with senior Canadian officials in Washington to discuss shared security priorities between the United States and Canada.
“It’s just not the southern border,” Bondi said during the news conference in Tampa, Florida, while outlining new indictments against human traffickers in the United States and increased anti-trafficking measures by Joint Task Force Alpha, an initiative launched in 2021 under former President Joe Biden to stop human smuggling.
“The task force will now cover our northern border in Canada of course, and all of our maritime borders,” Bondi said, adding that it will be expanded to include agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and FBI. “We will receive more resources to prosecute these cases and key figures in cartels, human trafficking, and transnational criminals,” she added….