Posted on 05/14/2026 6:31:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
California Democratic gubernatorial front-runner Xavier Becerra went viral yesterday for saying to a local Los Angeles television (KTLA) reporter, after she asked a hard question, “By the way, this is a profile piece, this is not a gotcha piece, right?” Reporter Annie Rose Ramos responded, appropriately, “These questions are fair. It’s in order to learn about you as a candidate.”
Progressives responded by criticizing Becerra’s messaging. A progressive Pod Save America co-host and former Obama spokesman, posted on X, “Politicians and candidates…let your staff have these whiny conversations! Or at least don’t do it on camera!” Former Obama strategist David Axelrod wrote that Becerra, as HHS Secretary during COVID, “rarely was the administration’s point person in communicating to the American people on the pandemic,” adding that the KTLA exchange “may be the reason why.”
But the underlying problem is not that Becerra is a poor communicator but rather that he is the person responsible for losing 85,000 migrant children under Biden’s open borders policy, which was what KTLA’s Ramos asked about. When Becerra was Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) could not reach more than 85,000 unaccompanied children after releasing them to sponsors. Eleven ORR managers warned in a July 2021 memo that labor trafficking was rising and that the system “rewards individuals for making quick releases, and not one that rewards individuals for preventing unsafe releases.” The New York Times found 13-year-olds working in meat plants, 12-year-olds at Hyundai and Kia supplier factories, and children who should have been in middle school working at commercial bakeries.
Who knows what other “occupations” these children were sold into.
Well, in all fairness it was a really big check
There’s a special place in hell for this person. I hope the devil tears his heart, throws in on the ground, and stomps on it right in front of him
Losing thousands of children to be exploited by predators is listed near the top of his resume to become a Democrat Governor.
Well, don’t you know liberal men need their anal fun with little kids?
The Dancing Boys of Los Angeles.
That pimp belongs to the school that applauds the torturous deaths of tens of millions of unborn children. Why would he care about a mere 85K children being sold as sex slaves?
It is not “lost” if the kid was turned over tothe buyer and the buyer did not return a signed receipt along with the bag of $$.
The IRS would roast yer butt if you tried to say “lost”.
The second part of the big question of “where are all of those children now” is, how much money was Bracera paid to look the other way in order to let it all happen?
Kids working in meat processing plants… makes me wonder what’s in the meat. There is some incentive not to slack off on the job when no one knows where you are and you are illegally working in a meat processing plant slaughtering hogs or chickens and making sausage, dog food, etc.
Trump admin has rescued 62K migrant kids from sex trafficking, child labor, border czar Homan says
NY Post ^ | Dec. 7, 2025 | Ryan King
Posted on 12/7/2025, 3:34:39 PM by Mr. Mojo
WASHINGTON — More than 62,000 migrant children have been rescued by the Trump administration and saved from evil conditions, including sex trafficking and forced labor after they crossed the border without parents under the Biden admin, border czar Tom Homan said.
“Over half a million children were smuggled into this country under Joe Biden,” Homan said on “Fox & Friends” Sunday.
“They lost track of 300,000. President Trump committed on day one that we will do everything we can to find every one of these children.”
“We know many of them are in sex trafficking. Many are in forced labor. Many are being abused,” Homan added. “I can’t discuss some of the mistreatment we found out about. President Trump again proved why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime. Over 62,000 children rescued.”
Homan said that the Biden administration had ignored the migrant kids and wasn’t “looking for” them.
The 62,000 children had been rescued between the start of the Trump administration and last Friday, according to Homan.
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Hyundai and Kia seem to come up a lot. Wonder if there is more to this than meets the eye:
(AG Tish James) NYS fines Hyundai & Kia $9 million for failure to stop criminals from stealing their cars.
X ^ | 12-17 | 𝓒𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓪
Posted on 12/17/2025, 9:20:02 AM by dennisw
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Make. It. Make. Sense. 🙄
NYS fines Hyundai & Kia $9 million for failure to stop criminals from stealing their cars. It’s like fining Macys for selling clothes from a rack rather than locked cabinets.
I know a non-profit fraud case here that was reported by multiple people to Big Tish involving millions & you know what she did?
NOTHING.
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