This amendment is the chance for Republicans to show that they really
are for the rule of law. It would stipulate that this bill would not
subject sex trafficking victims to criminal prosecution merely for
voluntarily presenting themselves at the border to request protection
from the unspeakable harm that they have suffered. I will close with this. Years ago, we worked together on a bipartisan
basis to fight sex trafficking. We created the U and T visas. It was a
broad bipartisan coalition. I remember now Governor Sam Brownback and
others, people who are at other ends, opposite ends of the ideological
spectrum, but we came together to fight sex trafficking.