House committee told migrants forced into prostitution after crossing San Diego border
Retired Border Patrol agent says 'we couldn't follow up'
The former top Border Patrol agent for the San Diego area testified at a hearing on the border crisis that pimps were taking advantage of young female migrants after they were released into shelters.
By: Austin GrabishPosted 11:18 PM, Sep 18, 2024
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The former top Border Patrol agent for the San Diego area testified at a hearing on the border crisis that pimps were taking advantage of young female migrants after they were released into shelters.
“They were given a phone number to call and then a recruiter would come down often from Oakland or Los Angeles and pick them up. These young women were then brought up and forced into prostitution,” Former chief patrol agent Aaron Heitke said.
Heitke told the Republican-led House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that it was one of the most shocking things he saw while working in the San Diego sector before retiring last year.
“We started to see recruiters in Mexico that would go around within the Tijuana area … and recruit teenage women to come to the United States,” he said, adding the minors would claim they were unaccompanied once they arrived on U.S. soil.
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