Washington is caught up in a child trafficking scandal

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Washington has been hit by another whistleblower who is accusing the U.S. of being the middle man in multi-billion dollar child trafficking industry with the Biden administration losing track of at least 85,000 minors since they crossed U.S. borders. Artis Caleb Mopin brings us more details. Looking for a babysitter? Well, don't hire the American government. The U.S. government's office of refugee resettlement is currently in the middle of a big scandal. Some new revelations show that 85,000 people, most of them migrant children, are now unaccounted for. It's inadequate funding and lack of coordination that is being blamed for the reason that we at this point have tens of thousands of migrant children who fell through the cracks. And it turns out that many of them were sponsored to come to the United States by criminal organizations and traffickers to begin with. You said these kids are being recruited in their home country. What do you mean by that? They are being lured here, Facebook ads and other things. Children are being lured here and then put to work here. That Department of Homeland Security has transnational criminal organizations on the talk watch list. Some of who got their fingerprints here in Washington, D.C. in neighboring areas are sponsoring the children. It's indisputable. So the money goes to the trafficker who ultimately brings them here. The New York Times actually showed, I think, Hannah Dreyer did an amazing expose where she actually showed the debt page of the child. How much the child had to pay for food? How much the child had to pay for rent? Really, we're engaged in creating slavery. Slavery, we are trafficking slaves to this country. Absolutely. They see us as the middleman because we're paying the flight directly to the end user, the trafficker. The Biden administration has handed these children over to individuals who have not really been vetted. Many of them are people who illegally crossed the border themselves. And then the administration did no follow-up to find out what happened to these children after they were handed over to individuals who had been barely scrutinized. The vetting process is rigorous and is derived from a range of sources, including records obtained from the countries of origin through their U.S. Consulates and documentation provided by U.S.-based sponsors. There is no one with law enforcement experience overseeing where children are going. It sounds like the U.S. government is running a human trafficking operation. We now have disturbing reports of children being kidnapped at the border and ending up in the sex trade, all in a process that the U.S. government facilitated. This makes that kids' encages scandal with the Trump administration look like child's play. We have a situation where children are not crowded into facilities. They're handed over to criminals. With all the time the U.S. Congress has spent investigating January 6th, you would think that a case like this, involving tens of thousands of children who've gone missing, might generate a bigger outcry. Let's see how much attention mainstream U.S. media gives to what should be considered to be a very serious scandal, especially for those who claim they are concerned about the lives of migrants and refugees. Caleb Mopin, RT, New York. Investigative journalist Edward Zal told us the U.S. is prepared to ignore the problem on its own border while dictating the policies of other nations. And me, what you see is the new U.S. foreign policy. It's half done projects. We have border walls that don't really function well. We have enforcement that is non-existent. We have become a country that does not care about the lives and safety of children. Worse, I think that we've been a country that has created an economy for child sex trafficking. It's hard to tell the world that we're fighting an axis of evil. And again, we have evil occurring right on our border. I don't think there's anything more evil than attacking the innocence of a child. And in regard to this, when it comes out, not only are we facilitating a billion dollar child sex trafficking industry, but we've known about it and we've ignored it, done nothing about the many children, five year olds, being raped and trafficked like meat.