California House Candidate Anita Chen on Tackling Human and Sex Trafficking

Anita Chen, who is running for House Representative of California’s 17th Congressional District as a Republican, is passionate about combating human trafficking. “It’s far more prevalent than most of us imagine. When we think of child sex trafficking, most of us picture a poor Guatemalan girl sold by her family to a brothel,” she said. “But the reality is that the vast majority of child sex trafficking cases in the United States are of American youth.” District 17 consists of Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Newark, and parts of Fremont and San Jose. Ms. Chen is a San Jose native and a teacher; her election campaign is centered on “restoring public safety, preserving educational freedom, and eliminating human trafficking at a national scale.”...