Kids as young at 8 are drugged and trafficked into the US by smugglers posing as their parents, Border Patrol warns
By Jennie Taer
Published Sep. 24, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
Border Patrol agents are warning that kids as young as 8 are being drugged and smuggled into the US by traffickers posing as their parents or family members — and nobody knows how common the horrifying practice is.
Authorities have rescued children caught up in two different instances of such smuggling in recent weeks — including one instance in which the alleged traffickers had birth certificates for multiple kids to whom they weren’t related, according to the Border Patrol.
Border Patrol sources have told The Post they’ve observed increasing numbers of smugglers posing as family units in order to “recycle” children.
This child was discovered drugged with sleeping pills and rescued from people smugglers who were trying to sneak him across the border into California, according to the US Border Patrol. X / @USBPChiefELC
“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after a while we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.
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