Immigrant children not all ‘trafficked’

I would like to comment about the article in the Times Free Press on June 5, 2021: “Lee blasts ’trafficking’ of migrant children.”

Gov. Lee is fueling a myth about trafficking by using incorrect terminology of the issue of “trafficking.”

This is not a term that should be bantered around for gain in an argument of state versus the federal government.

Immigrant children do not get trafficked into nor inside the federal immigration system of the U.S.

This false narrative is playing into the conspiracy theories that are keeping good people confused with misleading headlines.

I expect better of a state official and a city newspaper.

Lynne Marchetti