"Congress now has a chance to exercise leadership by sufficiently funding the Department of Justice's Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit (HTPU). The linchpin of the U.S. government's domestic anti-trafficking enforcement, the HTPU works with police and prosecutors to coordinate investigations. Crucially, it also leads 12 Anti-trafficking Coordination Teams (ACTeams), which enhance coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor. The ACTeams produced a 119 percent increase in investigations in their districts last year."
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