How Kamala’s ‘Kids In Cages’ Lie Paved The Way For A Child Trafficking Crisis
In the waning days of the campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is trotting out an old talking point: that former President Donald Trump “separates” migrant families and puts kids in “cages.”
But mounting evidence shows that Harris was instrumental in forging a status quo where migrant children are incentivized to cross the border alone — and then placed with unrelated sponsors, many of whom traffic and otherwise exploit the vulnerable youth.
In an October town hall on the Spanish-language network Univision, Harris highlighted what she called “Trump’s cruel family separation policy,” saying if Trump is reelected, he would “rip families apart.” Harris was referencing Trump’s use of holding centers — also used by the Obama administration — to house unaccompanied minor children while they awaited placement with sponsors. The Biden-Harris administration smeared those facilities as “cages,” and emphasized placing unaccompanied minors with sponsors as quickly as possible.
But the Biden-Harris administration also did away with DNA testing implemented by the Trump administration to ensure that the adults the minors were sent to live with were actually their relatives. Now, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) does not even see the proposed sponsors physically. Instead, to prove their relation, they text a photo of a birth certificate issued by their home country. HHS is not a law enforcement agency and has no way to verify that it is authentic; they release the child essentially based on a computer image of a foreign document that has the same last name as the child.
Former HHS employees tasked with the resettlement of unaccompanied minors say now, many of the “sponsors” are actually human traffickers — part of the same cartels that brought the children to the border. That means they are essentially using HHS, which pays contractors to drive the children to their sponsors, as a leg in the human smuggling operation. […]
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