Unaccompanied illegal alien children released by the federal government to in-country sponsors often do not know who the sponsors are, per a new exposé.
A video published by Muckraker features children of foreign nationals being transported to an airport from the headquarters of private security organization MVM Inc., which has facilitated the relocation of many unaccompanied minors.
Once at the airport, children are flown to various parts of the country to be released to the custody of allegedly unvetted sponsors. The video highlights that these children do not even know who the sponsors are.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent featured in the video admitted that many children released to sponsors become victims of human trafficking—referencing the recent film Sound of Freedom starring Jim Caviezal. “Exactly, like that sh*t happens,” he said.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, facilitates the release of unaccompanied children encountered at the southwest border to sponsors located inside the country.
According to the ORR web page, HHS asserts that sponsors are usually family members of the children. However, as seen in the video, children are often transferred to strangers.
“Human trafficking is a global problem that the U.S., under the Biden-Harris administration, has incited. We increased human trafficking by incentivizing mass illegal immigration and removing all deterrents to illegally coming to the U.S.,” said Selene Rodriguez, Texas Public Policy Foundation campaign director for Secure & Sovereign Texas.
“When you lack security at the border, you hand the cartels a booming business of human trafficking. Every person that seeks to cross into the U.S. via the southern border now has to pay the cartels in some way to do so,” she continued. “Further, we loosen restrictions for unaccompanied minors and do little to nothing to properly vet them or their sponsors.”
Rodriguez argued that this leaves unaccompanied minors completely helpless and at the disposal of transnational criminal organizations that subjugate children to human trafficking rings inside the United States.
“We have the power to combat human trafficking, and we aren’t doing enough to use it. We have to do better, children from around the globe depend on it,” she concluded.
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