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Fact Check: Yes, Xavier Becerra Lost Track Of 85,000 Migrant Children, Many To Traffickers
Public ^ | 13 May, 2026 | Michael Shellenberger

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.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: becerra; california; childabuse; childlabor; crime; democratcorrption; democratincompetence; humantrafficking; illegalimmigration; smuggling

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1 posted on 05/14/2026 6:31:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Who knows what other “occupations” these children were sold into.


2 posted on 05/14/2026 6:31:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, in all fairness it was a really big check


3 posted on 05/14/2026 6:35:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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To: MtnClimber; All

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


4 posted on 05/14/2026 6:45:14 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: SMARTY

Losing thousands of children to be exploited by predators is listed near the top of his resume to become a Democrat Governor.


5 posted on 05/14/2026 7:19:30 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: MtnClimber

Well, don’t you know liberal men need their anal fun with little kids?


6 posted on 05/14/2026 7:22:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

The Dancing Boys of Los Angeles.


7 posted on 05/14/2026 7:44:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

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?


8 posted on 05/14/2026 8:18:50 AM PDT by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: MtnClimber

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”.


9 posted on 05/14/2026 8:26:58 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

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?


10 posted on 05/14/2026 8:35:38 AM PDT by drypowder
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