Border Crisis: Former Border Chief Says Agents Don’t Have Time to Vet For Child Trafficking
Jennie TaerJune 14, 20230
The illegal immigration surge into the U.S. is making it nearly impossible for agents to determine whether children are being trafficked and exploited, former Border Chief Rodney Scott said Wednesday during a House Homeland Security committee hearing.
Scott, who was appointed under the Trump administration, said that under the Biden administration more children are prone to exploitation when Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned him on the subject. Wednesday’s hearing, which was titled “Open Borders, Closed Case” focused on building a case against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his alleged “dereliction of duty.”
WATCH:
Over the last two years, the U.S. government has lost track of roughly 85,000 migrant children released from federal custody, The New York Times reported in February. Many children are being reused and taken back and forth across the southern border to create fake family units that have an easier chance of making it into the country, Scott said.
“That means a child being teamed up with a family over and over again. So he has to make that trip over and over again because that gets them to be a family unit and they get into that categorical exemption to get released,” Scott said.
https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2023/06/border-crisis-former-border-chief-says-agents-dont-have-time-to-vet-for-child-trafficking/
