Child trafficking expert says cartels exploit loopholes at ports of entry: ‘Like a passport’
Booyens, founder of the eponymous anti-trafficking organization Jaco Booyens Ministry, recently told Just the News that Mexican cartels have made the United States the “number one nation on Earth” for child trafficking, in part by exploiting ports of entry.
Booyens claimed that cartels often join with other migrants who gather at entry points along the border because the Border Patrol will not reject them.
As recently as this month, Blas Nuñez-Neto, the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, said the agency is not turning away asylum seekers at U.S. ports of entry.
Booyens and others have long been sounding the alarm about the practice of cartel members trying to improve the likelihood of getting into the U.S. illegally by having a child in their arms.
“If they make it into the country, and they’re home free, [then] they actually send that child back to Mexico with a mule,” he said, arguing that such a process often repeats itself, making the child “literally like a passport.”
Grothman also said 130,000 migrant children have come across the border each year that Democrat President Joe Biden has been in office, compared to 15,000 in Trump’s final year in office, though the country was still under some phases of the pandemic lockdown.
And in March, a Florida grand jury tasked in part with learning how “unaccompanied alien children” are brought into the U.S. concluded that existing border policies “[expose] children to horrifying health conditions, constant criminal threat, labor and sex trafficking, robbery, rape, and other experiences not done justice by mere words.”
Responding to a Just the News report that the Biden administration is ending family DNA testing at the southern border, which had been used to help stop human trafficking, Booyens predicted the change will make child trafficking “infinitely worse.”
Sickening and truly evil!
This from the party that CLAIMS to care so much about the children.