President Donald Trump has described Chicago as a “hellhole,” threatening to send in the National Guard despite the objection of our elected officials. In the Dominican Republic and throughout much of the world, survivors of sex trafficking are stigmatized, overlooked, and viewed as deserving the trauma they endure. For example, American Christians have had significant empathy for victims of sex trafficking, like those I worked with in the Dominican Republic. I also saw it in the Dominican Republic, where most individuals, Christians included, condemned and avoided victims of sex trafficking. As child sex trafficking initially was in the Dominican Republic, violence in the US is sustained by a crisis of proximity.