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DOJ Removes ‘International Sex Trafficking of Minors’ From Areas of Concern
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DOJ Removes ‘International Sex Trafficking of Minors’ From Areas of Concern

OAN’s Taylor Tinsley 2:10 PM – Wednesday, July 12, 2023 The Justice Department has made changes to what it considers are areas of concern. The DOJ made recent modifications to its website under the section that listed the department’s subject areas of concern regarding ‘‘Child Sex Trafficking’.” “International Sex Trafficking of Minors,” “Domestic Sex Trafficking of…

‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration
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‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration

The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently “normal” inside the US: “According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters…

Testimony by Tara Lee Rodas for The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
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Testimony by Tara Lee Rodas for The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement

Editor’s note: We are non-partisan. Children are being hurt. Please, watch, read, learn, and act accordingly. Hearing Date: Wednesday 04/26/2023 – 3:00 PM Hearing Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and…

ISSUE BRIEF: 2021-2023: Child Exploitation at the Southern Border
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ISSUE BRIEF: 2021-2023: Child Exploitation at the Southern Border

TOPLINE POINTS The Biden Administration’s open border policies are responsible for the record setting number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) trafficked or smuggled to the U.S. southern border. These vulnerable children are being exploited and abused by Mexican cartels, human traffickers, corporations, and their own families on the journey north and after the Biden Administration…

AG Campbell pushes for wariness of child labor exploitation, especially among immigrants
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AG Campbell pushes for wariness of child labor exploitation, especially among immigrants

The arcade chain Dave & Buster’s agreed to pay more than a quarter of a million dollars to resolve allegations that include violation of child labor laws, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced Thursday. Campbell shared the news amid a push from her office to raise awareness about legal protections for young people from…

Report: More than 340 migrant kids sent to live with nonrelatives who sponsored other kids
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Report: More than 340 migrant kids sent to live with nonrelatives who sponsored other kids

The Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied migrant children to live with nonfamily sponsors hosting three or more unaccompanied kids, says a new Health and Human Services Department audit, raising questions among advocates who worry that some minors are being sponsored by strangers who could exploit them for child labor. The audit, conducted by the agency’s Office…

Report: More than 340 migrant kids sent to live with nonrelatives who were already sponsoring other children
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Report: More than 340 migrant kids sent to live with nonrelatives who were already sponsoring other children

The Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied migrant children to live with nonfamily sponsors who are already hosting at least two other children, says a new Health and Human Services Department audit, raising questions among advocates who worry that some minors are being sponsored by strangers who could exploit them for child labor. The audit, conducted by…

US Spent $13 Billion Sponsoring Unaccompanied Minor Children At The Border Since 2012
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US Spent $13 Billion Sponsoring Unaccompanied Minor Children At The Border Since 2012

By Adam Andrzejewski, author of the Open The Books Substack The chaos on America’s southern border has had unintended consequence – a human catastrophe hurting tens of thousands of unaccompanied, defenseless children. GRAPHIC: Federal funding sponsoring unaccompanied minors at the border spiked to an all-time high in 2022. Despite generous taxpayer funding, the federal infrastructure…

Missing Migrant Children: 85,000 Disappear Under Biden Administration
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Missing Migrant Children: 85,000 Disappear Under Biden Administration

Why aren’t more people concerned about the missing migrant children under the Biden administration? By Victor Huyke Conquistador News editor, special to Wisconsin Right Now According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) in the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing yearly. However, this is only a tiny…

DeSantis pledges Florida will use ‘every resource’ to end human trafficking
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DeSantis pledges Florida will use ‘every resource’ to end human trafficking

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged late Tuesday morning that his state would use “every resource at [its] disposal” to put human traffickers out of business and into prison. “So, all in, human trafficking across this country is a $150 billion-dollar illegal enterprise. And, I’m here to say that Florida – we want to use every…