The Department of Homeland Security has just seven forensic analysts dedicated to child exploitation investigations nationwide, according to Sen.Josh Hawley, R-Mo., whose proposal to fund 200 additional investigators and analysts is becoming law.The measure, included in the massive $70 billion reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, which passed Friday, would invest $108.5 million in child trafficking and exploitation enforcement.
Hawley's office said it would be the largest federal investment ever made to combat child trafficking. "The Senate just passed my legislation with Tim Tebow to rescue thousands of children trapped in sex trafficking," Hawley told Fox News Digital in a statement. HAWLEY LAUNCHES GOOGLE INVESTIGATION AFTER 'SHOCKING' CHILD TRAFFICKING TESTIMONY AT SENATE HEARING Sen.Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.
Tebow testified March 3 during Hawley’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on exposing the rampant child trafficking.(Getty Images)"That’s two hundred new law enforcement officers to find and rescue kids trafficked by predators and a new initiative to coordinate local, state, and federal enforcement," he added.
"This is the biggest surge against child trafficking ever by the federal government.Let’s go rescue these kids."The provision, according to Hawley’s office, was inspired in part by former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who testified March 3 during Hawley’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on exposing the widespread child trafficking. During his testimony, Tebow said that 338,000 unique IP addresses have downloaded, shared or distributed child rape images in the United States in a matter of months, but only a select few get investigated. MORE THAN 300 ARRESTED IN SPRAWLING CALIFORNIA CRACKDOWN ON CHILD EXPLOITATION CRIMESSen.
Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks to reporters in the Senate subway during a vote ...