Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking/trending news blogger for MSNBC Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.
Sen. Katie Britt has been roundly criticized for her State of the Union rebuttal. Now, Karla Jacinto Romero, the person at the center of a harrowing story she told about sex trafficking, has also publicly chastised the Alabama Republican for misusing and misrepresenting her experience. To criticize President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, Britt’s speech referenced a story of a young woman being trafficked as a child.
' But as independent journalist Jonathan Katz first detailed, Britt's invoking Jacinto Romero's experience in the context of Biden's border policies was misleading. Jacinto Romero also told CNN that Britt got several details about her story wrong: She was not trafficked by cartels, but by a pimp who entrapped girls to force them into sex work. She was trafficked when George W. Bush was president — and never in the U.S.
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