Trafficking Expert Recounts Migrant Girl’s Abuse Under Biden-Harris Policies That Lost Track of 300K Kids: ‘Not an isolated case’’; ‘Rape Trees’ And Discarded Passports: Congress Hears Horrors Of Migrant Child Trafficking

Trafficking expert recounts migrant girl’s abuse under Biden-Harris policies that lost track of 300K kids: ‘Not an isolated case’

A human trafficking expert railed against the Biden-Harris administration on Capitol Hill Tuesday for losing track of more than 320,000 migrant children, sharing a horrific tale of one girl’s abuse as an example of the “dangerous loopholes” that have led to widespread exploitation.

Alicia Hopper, who has provided oversight to non-governmental groups and other organizations being exploited by human traffickers for sex or forced labor, told members of the House Homeland Security Committee that federal agencies tasked with securing the border have instead turned it into “a trafficking pipeline.”

“As a Hispanic mother, this crisis is deeply personal to me,” said Hopper, who consults for Sadulski Enterprises, LLC. “The very system meant to protect vulnerable children has become a trafficking pipeline.”

“A young girl who arrived at the border in the custody of individuals claiming to be her family was bruised, disoriented and in pain,” she recounted. “Medical examinations revealed that she had been raped, yet she was sent back to her abusers because no verification was done to confirm her guardianship.”

“This is not an isolated case,” Hopper added, “but a glaring error of the system leaving children in the hands of those who exploit them.”

Under President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, more than 529,000 migrant children have entered the US, according to Customs and Border Protection data.

As many as 291,000 were loose in the country’s interior as of May 2024 and had not been given a date to appear in immigration court –giving federal authorities no way to track their whereabouts, a shocking Department of Homeland Security watchdog report revealed in August.

Additionally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released 32,000 children into the US with hearing dates — but they never showed up, according to the 14-page DHS Office of Inspector General report, which tracked a period from October 2018 to September 2023.

The Homeland Security Committee slapped Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra with a subpoena in September for records on the “vetting, screening, and monitoring” of migrant sponsors.

On Tuesday, the panel also heard from witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the failures inside federal agencies like US Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services that led to the massive number of missing migrant kids.

“Children, boys and girls, are being sold for sex,” testified HHS whistleblower Tara Rodas, who formerly worked on behalf of the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to place unaccompanied migrants with sponsors at an emergency intake site in California. —>READ MORE HERE

‘Rape Trees’ And Discarded Passports: Congress Hears Horrors Of Migrant Child Trafficking:

Witnesses on Tuesday told the House Homeland Security about the inhumane conditions faced by unaccompanied migrant children who cross the southern border, many of whom are trafficked before and after entering the country.

Witnesses included a human trafficking expert, the former high-ranking official at an unaccompanied minor site, and a retired border patrol agent. Together, their testimony painted a grim picture.

Ali Hopper, a human trafficking expert, said she visited a path used by migrants lined with what cartels refers to as “rape trees,” areas where minor migrants are forced to perform sexual acts to help pay for their journey. According to Hopper, underwear hung from the branches of one such tree.

Hopper said the pathway was also lined with discarded passports and other IDs, “often burned, torn, or buried,” including the passport of a five-year old Colombian girl. While criminal migrants often enter the country under false names to avoid detection, Hopper said changing children’s identity raises “darker questions.”

“Are they being exploited? What horrors have they endured to reach this point?”

More than half a million children have entered the United States without parents and been sent by the U.S. government to live with “sponsors” in recent years. Sponsors do not have to be related to the children and, because they are typically illegal immigrants themselves, they are not reliably vetted.

“Criminal sponsors are defrauding the U.S. government by using this government program as a logistical chain in their trafficking operation,” Tara Rodas, the former deputy at an unaccompanied minor processing site, told the panel. “These children are not merely victims, they are hostages.”

Rodas said it was “unclear why we’re luring children to the United States to be the white-glove delivery system” for gangs. She called for the government to “implement simple safety measures like DNA testing for children and their sponsors,” and “stringent penalties like prison for sponsors who are unable to produce the children they are in charge of.”

By the time the Office of Refugee Resettlement makes its 30-day follow-up phone call — until recently, the only post-release outreach it made — a third of unaccompanied migrants are missing, according to The New York Times. That means more than 165,000 children could be missing in the country.

President-elect Donald Trump has said locating and rescuing the missing migrant children will be one of his administration’s top priorities. Fraudulent “sponsors” who take custody of children and then lose them could form a list of priority deportees in the Trump administration. —>READ MORE HERE

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