According to Fox News, a whistleblower is scheduled to testify before a House Judiciary panel on Wednesday that the US government has been acting as a “middleman” in a multi-billion dollar migrant child trafficking scheme.
The suspected child trafficking is thought to be taking place through the US’s porous southern border. On Wednesday’s hearing, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement will assess the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border.
Three witnesses are testifying at the hearing, which is titled “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children.”
Tara Lee Rodas, a former employee, and whistleblower at the Department of Health and Human Services, is one of those testifying. Fox News got a copy of Rodas’ testimony, which will explain the US government’s alleged complicity in child trafficking at the border.
“Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex,” Rodas is planning on testifying. “Today, children will call a hotline to report they are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.”
Rodas will, citing her work experience with the HHS’ resettlement office, argue the US government is operating a “large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children.”
“I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in their home country, smuggled to the U.S. border, and ends when ORR delivers a child to a sponsor – some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations. Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets to be used for earning income – this is why we are witnessing an explosion of labor trafficking,” Rodas will explain.
“Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the U.S. Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children.”
The former HHS staffer intends to request a congressional probe into the government agencies in charge of migrant transportation into the United States.
“We can no longer turn a blind eye and pretend this isn’t happening. Congress has the power to stop this, which is why I am calling on you to do what is right.”
According to recent estimates, the Biden administration has been unable to reach almost 100,000 young immigrants. “The Biden administration has been rocked by a number of reports that officials have been unable to make contact with over 85,000 child migrants, and more recently that administration officials have ignored signs of “explosive” growth in child labor,” Fox News stated.
