Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged late Tuesday morning that his state would use "every resource at [its] disposal" to put human traffickers out of business and into prison.
"So, all in, human trafficking across this country is a $150 billion-dollar illegal enterprise. And, I'm here to say that Florida – we want to use every resource at our disposal to put human traffickers out of business and into jail," he told a crowd at Broward County's Lighthouse Point.
The Department of Homeland Security's annual report from Oct. 2020 to Sept. 2021 said annual global profits for traffickers amount to that much.
