"The best way to understand what is happening at the border is to come and see, you know?" Sr. Norma Pimentel told a Georgetown panel — "actually see the face of a child, a mother hurting and suffering for their babies."
The fight against human trafficking and sexual exploitation may need its own #MeToo moment, according to a leading trafficking opponent. Good Shepherd Sr. Winifred Doherty, who is her religious congregation's representative to the United Nations, observed that sex trafficking, "a debasement of the human person," is "rooted in the structure of society, and more so today."