Screenshot: Alejandro Mayorkas / Face The Nation
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.
Watch the clip below:
MAYORKAS: “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.”
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Such comments perfectly encapsulate the arrogance that Mayorkas has displayed since the moment he was confirmed to the position.
Under Mayorkas’s leadership of the agency, over 10 million illegal aliens have entered the country, causing untold suffering and social unrest.
While crossing the border is a crime in and of itself, countless numbers of these illegals have gone on to commit heinous crimes such as armed robbery, rape and murder.
Many also have links to organized crime, allowing the expansion of drug cartels and other criminal organizations across the country.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly pledged to declare a “national emergency” on his first day in office and carry out the largest deportation effort in American history.
“We have no choice,” Trump said in a recent interview. “When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here.”
Trump Confirms He Will Declare ‘National Emergency’ on Immigration, Will Employ Military to Start Mass Deportations
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