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Federal Agents Bust California Human Smuggling Ring That Allegedly Involved 20,000 People

When liberals hear the phrase “mass migration,” they seem to think of it as an opportunity to virtue signal about how welcoming they are to foreigners.

For conservatives and other supporters of President Donald Trump, however, that phrase conjures realistic images of horrors for everyone involved.

According to Fox News, federal agents disrupted a massive human smuggling operation on Friday when they arrested two Guatemalan men accused of trafficking 20,000 illegal immigrants into the United States since 2019.

The arrests occurred in downtown Los Angeles, California.

Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul and Cristobal Mejia-Chaj now face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted.

The smuggling operation, which included two other defendants, Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj and Helmer Obispo-Hernandez, featured elements akin to kidnapping and extortion.

For instance, the defendants allegedly charged $15,000 to $18,000 for safe passage into the United States. But that passage also allegedly included unexpected charges for transport across the U.S., and the smugglers kept migrants who could not pay as hostages in order to extort more money from their families back home.

U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally explained the significance of the arrests.

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President Trump’s Administration Has Located 75,000 to 80,000 of the 300,000 Children Trafficked

In an astonishing development, it has been revealed that the Trump administration located between 75,000 and 80,000 of the more than 300,000 children missing and possibly trafficked across the US-Mexico border during the Biden administration.

The shocking figures were reported by Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, shedding light on the deeply concerning issue of child trafficking at the southern border.

According to Faulkner’s report, the Trump administration’s efforts to track down and locate these vulnerable children have yielded significant results.

The numbers come as part of a broader investigation into the massive emergence in child trafficking under President Biden’s border policies.

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Exposing Territorial Recruitment Centers In Ukraine – Human Trafficking To Support The War Effort

A man captured and sold to the war industry in Ukraine managed to make a short video inside one of many Territorial Recruitment Centers (TRCs) in Ukraine. These men are captured and sold to the military and rapidly shipped to the front lines. The police and the military, trying to avoid the fighting, capture others to fight in their place. Avoiding fighting is one motivation, and the other is profit-making. Some abductors make $2,000-$2,500 per day in human trafficking. The letters on the wall stand for Jesus Christ, and a letter was also found in the cellar talking about the targeting of the Christian population. Many Christians are conscientious objectors, as allowed by Ukrainian law, but the law is ignored because money can be made.

In this video, you can witness another attempt to abduct somebody; in this case, they managed to escape.

Occasionally, someone captured will die in the hands of the police. 

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Says Child Trafficking Across Southern Border is Not His Responsibility 

The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, has claimed that child sex trafficking across the southern border is not his responsibility.

In an interview with Margaret Brennan of Face The Nation, Mayorkas was asked about the 32,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the United States between 2019 and 2023.

According to Donald Trump’s incoming border czar Tom Homan, these children are being exploited and trafficked for criminal entreprises.

Mayorkas responded:

Margaret, we certainly have received reports of children being trafficked, even those as to whom we know where they are. That is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security.

What we do is we turn children over within 72 hours, as the law requires, to the Department of Health and Human Services, and then HHS places those children.

Of course, we investigate cases of trafficking, but there are children who are reunited with a parent here in the United States or a legal guardian, and they move and sometimes the government loses track.

Individuals do not comply with the reporting obligations or otherwise, I think it is inaccurate to say that all of them are trafficked or victimized. There are a number of reasons why we might lose track of an individual that is not necessarily specific to this administration.

That has been a long standing challenge in the immigration system, one example of why that system is so broken, why the duration of time in proceedings is unacceptably long and has to be remedied. Remember, we’re dealing with a system that was last reformed in 1996.

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Biden-Harris HHS secretary testifies about missing illegal migrant children, and his admissions will sicken you

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that a new(ish) Health and Human Services rule adopted in April of this year, which made the vetting process for potential sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) a whole lot less intrusive for the adult applicant(s), was a strategic change to promote the trafficking of children, because that’s exactly what it’s done, and Xavier Becerra is to blame.

How can he possibly rationalize a process that doesn’t implement rigorous criminal background checks for every single potential sponsor? If you read the rule, standard protocol is a quick scan of the sex offender registry and a public records check… but FBI background checks only apply to “some” potential sponsors.

Law of unintended consequences… or a natural progression of a deliberately planned scheme?

Yesterday, Becerra testified at Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, and his admissions will sicken you—when Texas’s Chip Roy quizzed Becerra on whether or not he could account for the roughly 400,000 UACs whose whereabouts are reportedly unknown, requiring he respond with either a “yes” or a “no,” Becerra sidestepped and launched into a filibustering word salad. 

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Kamala’s America-Texas DPS Recover Nearly 30 Unaccompanied Minors, Ages 10-17 – The Children Were Turned over to Border Patrol

This is Border Czar Kamala Harris’ America.

Texas DPS released footage on Friday of 29 unaccompanied minors who were recovered. All of the children had a reported “sponsor” in various states, including California, Colorado, New York, Florida, Maine, and more. The children were given over to the Border Patrol.

TGP reported last month that Biden-Kamala policies resulted in approximately 325,000 children who were lost because of the regime’s border policies.

Additional footage from Friday shows numerous illegal aliens that were caught in Quemado, which is near Eagle Pass, Texas. Out of the 165 illegal aliens, 14 of them were from “special interest” countries including Iran, Egypt, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 57 arrests were made for trespassing. The illegals were from various countries, including Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, and others.

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Oregon mom, daughter indicted for trafficking Haitians in ‘indentured servitude’ at adult care home: DOJ

An Oregon mom and daughter have been indicted by the Department of Justice on human trafficking and forced labor charges. The pair allegedly put three Haitians, including a minor, in “indentured servitude” at an adult care home they owned and operated in Tigard, a city located southwest of Portland, according to a press release from the Justice Department.

Marie Gertrude Jean Valmont, 66, and Yolandita Marie Andre, 30, are accused of using violence and threats to force their victims to work long hours for little or no pay. The seven-count indictment charges both of them with conspiring with one another to commit forced labor, committing forced labor, and benefitting from forced labor.

Court documents state that Valmont and Andre, the owners and operators of Velida’s Care Home in Tigard, began their human trafficking scheme in Sept. 2023, when they convinced two adults and a child from Haiti to travel to the United States to work at their care home.

After arriving in the Portland area, the victims were immediately taken to Velida’s where they were allegedly forced to work long, arduous 17-hour days for little or no pay. Valmont and Andre are alleged to have taken the victims’ immigration paperwork and forbade them from leaving Velida’s under any circumstances. Additionally, Valmont is alleged to have thrown items at the victims, threatened to send them back to Haiti and have them killed, and threatened to call police to make false theft allegations against them, according to the indictment.

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Federal Government Placing Alien Children in Trafficking Ring

The federal government delivered alien children to a trafficking ring in Florida, according to a bombshell new investigation by journalists from Muckraker.com.

Muckraker journalists conducted a months-long investigation into the Unaccompanied Children Program run by the Department of Health and Human Services, and discovered that children were being placed by the federal government in the hands of a trafficking ring.

Even worse, Muckraker alleges that when the federal government was made aware of the situation, nothing was done to remedy it or locate the alien children who had been placed with the traffickers.

“We have now obtained first-hand testimonies from children who were delivered to a trafficking ring in Florida,” Muckraker tweeted.

According to insiders, the Department of Health and Human Services has known about this trafficking case for 3 years but did nothing to find the trafficked children.

“According to the children we found, they were encouraged to come to the United States after hearing radio advertisements in Guatemala promoting the journey.

“Upon reaching the United States, the ‘sponsor’ who received them held a debt over their head and has been extorting them for years. This same sponsor is linked directly and indirectly to many more children who have been smuggled into the U.S.”

Muckraker will release a full exposé of the Unaccompanied Children program soon, “including confrontations with the CIA contracting group that delivers the children, and testimonies from trafficked children who have been delivered across America and forgotten.”

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‘Project Rescue Children’ Exposed as Latest in Series of Human-Trafficking Hoaxes

Project Rescue Children (PRC) claims to have rescued hundreds of children around the world from human traffickers. But an intensive investigation by the BBC casts major doubts on this claim. Reporter Hayley Mortimer found that multiple PRC stories—including one involving a baby “saved from traffickers”—appear to have been false and that several of the rescue centers it was supposedly fundraising for didn’t exist.

PRC called the BBC’s allegations “completely without merit, misleading and defamatory.”

But the BBC’s story appears deeply reported, with Mortimer having physically traveled to alleged rescue centers in Kenya and The Gambia only to discover they didn’t exist.

PRC was founded by a former police officer named Adam Whittington, a British and Australian citizen. After leaving the police force, Whittington set up a company that helped locate kids taken abroad by their parents during custody disputes. The group later shifted focus, and it now describes its mission as rescuing and protecting children “from child trafficking and exploitation.”

The group raised funds—sometimes with the help of celebrities, such as British TV personality Sam Faiers—by telling supporters they were helping to save trafficked children and build rescue centers in Kenya, The Gambia, Uganda, and the Philippines. But less than half of the money recently raised for a rescue center in Uganda made it to group’s partner organization there, the BBC reports. And it gets worse: Alleged rescue centers elsewhere didn’t seem to exist at all.

Mortimer and a BBC team traveled to the outskirts of Kenya’s Kisumu to visit a PRC center “supposedly run by a woman known as Mama Jane.” They found that “Mama Jane was an elderly lady called Jane Gori, who lived in the house with her husband.” There were no kids there, “rescued or otherwise,” and Gori had no idea PRC was using pictures of her house in fundraising efforts. “I did find out that her son, Kupa Gori, was PRC’s director in Kenya and he had brought Mr Whittington to visit her home,” writes Mortimer. “Whittington uses pictures of improvement work PRC has funded at Mrs Gori’s house to convince donors he is running a rescue centre.”

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Bombshell Whistleblower Testimony: Biden Regime Paying BILLIONS to Facilitate Child Trafficking via Government Contractors

During a round table held by Republican Senators on Tuesday, federal whistleblowers claimed that the Biden Regime is facilitating the trafficking of migrant children via contractors receiving billions of taxpayer dollars.

Deborah White and her colleague Tara Rodes, who are federal employees in the Health and Human Services Unaccompanied Child Program, both testified that the Office of Refugee Resettlement sent thousands of unaccompanied migrant children into potentially dangerous environments after failing to properly vet the sponsors they were being placed with.

According to White, there’s no question: these kids are being trafficked – and the Biden Regime is “complicit.”

From White’s shocking testimony:

“What I discovered was horrifying… Make no mistake – children were not going to their parents they were being trafficked with billions of taxpayer dollars by a contractor failing to to vet sponsors and process children safely with government officials complicit in it.”

In one example, White brought up an alarming case in Florida that involved more than a dozen children linked to one sponsor at multiple addresses.

“Children were sent to addresses that were abandoned houses or non-existent in some cases” she added.

She also talked about another case in which a child was dropped off at an “open field” in Michigan by the HHS contractor. If that wasn’t bad enough, the child was left despite a 911 call coming in around the same area and time. The call reported someone screaming for help.

Rodas followed up White’s bombshell testimony with concerns for the safety of the children at the hands of these unvetted sponsors. As she points out, they could be anyone.

“To place vulnerable migrant children into the hands of sponsors with criminal history, gang affiliation, to whom many aren’t even their parents,” she said.

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