We’ll start here.
Under President Biden’s watch, there have been over 8 million migrant
encounters nationwide, 6.7 million of which have been at the Southwest border.
Worse yet, over 1.7 million known gotaways—illegal immigrants who have evaded
Border Patrol— are now living in the interior of the United States without
documentation and without having undergone any vetting by immigration officials.
The serious national security concerns shared by Republicans have fallen on deaf ears,
but maybe Democrats will listen to the men and women at the front lines of the border
crisis.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, in conjunction with the House
Committee on Homeland Security, conducted numerous interviews with Chief Border
Patrol Agents who candidly spoke, as they have in the past, about the serious crisis
unfolding at our Southern Border. The joint report entitled, “Crisis at the Border:
Reports from the Frontline” highlights just how important the fight for border security
really is.
It appears that 305 doesn’t really care about the border (or kids being sex trafficked?) That’s why he lazily looks for a few stats here and there or dismisses legit concerns.
I did. I showed that under Trump sex trafficking sharply increased and under Biden it has been mostly flat.
I thought this thread was about sex trafficking.
I can’t see all the detail behind that chart to know what the data is referencing.
I think logic would tell you that because of the illegal immigrant increases and the gotaways that are known and many more that are unknown, and the fact that human smuggling is prevalent in border crossings that the true numbers are much higher now than before. We won’t ever know what the actual impact is, but we can assume it’s worse now than before based on percentages.
In the U.S., immigrants, especially immigrant women, make up the largest portion of
trafficking victims. The Department of State estimates than in 2016, 57,700 victims had been
trafficked into the U.S. annually. The true number is likely much larger and impossible to
determine. In fiscal year 2021, there were nearly 2 million migrant apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border, and that number only accounts for the people encountered by border
agents. More than 400,000 more migrants eluded apprehension and are counted among the
“got-aways.”
Last year also met another unfortunate record—147,000 unaccompanied migrant children
entered into the U.S., 122,000 were taken into the U.S. custody, the previous record being
69,000.
While some minors make it into the country with information on family members they have in
the U.S., others end up in the foster system. According to the Department of State, a large
number of child sex trafficking survivors in the U.S. were at one time in the foster care system.
In 2019, the Department of Homeland Security, under the Trump Administration, launched a
pilot program that allowed for ICE to DNA test families that were deemed suspicious of
fraudulent activity. This program was designed to help prevent minors from being trafficked
or recycled, and it resulted in criminal charges for the adults exploiting them. Yet this
program was met with great disdain by activist groups and lawmakers and is not being used
by the current administration.
Under the Biden administration, human traffickers are busier than ever, expediting the flow of
migrants across the southern border. The president has made it abundantly clear that his
administration does not wish to stop illegal immigration, nor does it wish to enable necessary
enforcement of the immigration laws that are on the books. It is factors such as these that
drive large numbers of people to surge the border, overwhelming federal and local agencies
and—most importantly—risking the lives of millions.
With the Border Patrol overwhelmed by the large number of migrants to process, they are
being compelled to get people through as quickly as possible, leading to a less rigorous
vetting process. It is unknown how many victims of human trafficking have been smuggled
across the border to date, but it is clear that scandalously loose border policies and
inadequate federal resources incentivize innocent people to put themselves at the mercy of
human smugglers, fueling human trafficking in the United States
I saw one chart that went up to 2022
This is called speculation not logic.
By making record arrests and deportations? Hmm, sorry, that doesn’t track for me.
I love how he makes an entire post about something, it’s discredited as he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and he just moves onto something else. No care about the actual topic. No integrity, no character, no principles…just a simple bigot, piece of trash.