{"id":29583,"date":"2026-06-12T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29583"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:45:35","slug":"the-largest-investment-to-combat-child-trafficking-becomes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29583","title":{"rendered":"The Largest Investment to Combat Child Trafficking Becomes Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly 90,000 unidentified children facing sexual abuse will finally be helped thanks to House Republicans funding the largest investment to fight child exploitation and\u00a0trafficking.\n<\/p>\n

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A provision included in the newly passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill will allow 200 new investigators to identify victims of child sexual abuse.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, 89,000 unidentified image series of children being sexually abused have been seen by law enforcement\u2014but these children have yet to be identified and are still waiting to be found due to resource and manpower shortages,\u201d Tim Tebow, founder and chairman of the Tim Tebow Foundation, said.\n<\/p>\n

Every day we wait, they suffer.
Right now, there are kids praying for a rescue\u2014for someone to step up, step in, and do something.\n<\/p>\n

Are we actually going to protect these kids from further exploitation, or are we just going to keep talking about it? pic.twitter.com\/DtLbpZKIyZ<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) March 4, 2026<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we acted. I am grateful to our congressional leaders for getting this\u00a0lifesaving legislation\u00a0over the finish line, and to the law enforcement who never stop fighting for these kids,\u201d Tebow continued.\n<\/p>\n

House Republicans passed the $70 billion party-line budget bill, the\u00a0Secure America Act, to fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The bill passed Tuesday night, 214\u2013212, with all Republicans voting \u201cyes\u201d and all Democrats voting \u201cno.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The Renewed Hope Act was included to allocate $108.5 million to hire 200 additional victim identification analysts, forensic analysts, and investigators to identify unknown children seen in sexual images. Now they can be located, and future potential child victims can be safeguarded.\n<\/p>\n

Tebow\u00a0testified before Congress\u00a0in March, where he brought this escalating crisis of online child exploitation to lawmakers\u2019 attention.\n<\/p>\n

He told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism that there are over 330,000 unique IP addresses that have downloaded, shared, or distributed child-rape images in the United States in less than a year.\n<\/p>\n

He highlighted the widening gap between the scale of exploitation and available federal resources; prior to this passage, there were only seven analysts whose job it was to find and protect tens of thousands of children. Now there will be 200.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cMy legislation with Tim Tebow to rescue thousands of children trapped in sex trafficking just passed the House and is headed to the president\u2019s desk,\u201d said\u00a0Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.,\u00a0who spearheaded the legislation. \u201cThis is the biggest surge against online child exploitation ever by the federal government. It\u2019s time to rescue these kids.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Hawley Measure to Fight Child Trafficking Passes House, Heads to President\u2019s Deskhttps:\/\/t.co\/MitRPTa7WE\n<\/p>\n

\u2014 Senator Hawley Press Office (@SenHawleyPress) June 9, 2026<\/p>\n

Tebow credited multiple members who helped author this legislation, including Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Lucy McBath of Georgia, and Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, all of whom decided to vote against the final passage due to it being connected to ICE funding.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cMy prayer is that hope is renewed for many more boys and girls, and that their stories will be different because of this legislation. When we come together, real change can happen\u2014and this is just the beginning,\u201d Tebow said in a press release following the vote.\n<\/p>\n