Homeland Security investigators who uncover child exploitation initiated more than 4,000 cases around the world in the 2019 budget year, resulting in thousands of arrests and the identification of more than 1,000 victims, according to new data obtained by The Associated Press. …
On Thursday, officials plan to unveil a new center based at ICE’s Washington headquarters tasked with alerting other countries when U.S. sex offenders are traveling there. The new center will include representatives from the U.S. Marshals office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Full Article
Weren’t we told the registry would stop crime?
“Our solution to stop these new crimes is to keep warning countries of people who have stopped committing other crimes, even though it hasn’t been working”
Maybe laura ahearn should chime in here.
Doesn’t impede legal travel they say. Ha. Haha. That’ll go over well in court.
Isn’t that the job of both the Interpol and the Angel watch? What are they basing the statistics on, are they using the child exploitation phenomenon to win support of other countries and no questions asked, where’s the critical thinking?
Angel Watch notifications to foreign countries are sent from USDOJ/Marshals Service and indicate ‘USMS National Sex Offender Targeting Center.” I know this because I read it directly from a green notification sent about me on a Fall 2018 Europe trip and which I received a copy of through a FOIA request to the USMS.
(I strongly encourage any of you who are required to submit 21-day travel notice that upon your return to the United States, you submit a FOIA request to the USMS.)