{"id":2960,"date":"2023-04-19T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:45:48","slug":"modern-day-slavery-sen-blackburn-says-unaccompanied-migrant-kids-are-being-used-for-child-labor-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Modern Day Slavery\u2019: Sen. Blackburn Says Unaccompanied Migrant Kids Are Being Used for Child Labor, Sex Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u4\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script>\n\n<div id=\"rumble_v2ggscq\"><\/div>\n<script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v2ggscq\",\"div\":\"rumble_v2ggscq\"});<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said Tuesday that unaccompanied minors at the southern border are being used for sex trafficking and child labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments come after whistleblowers\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/04\/17\/biden-admin-didnt-want-to-hear-warnings-of-skyrocketing-migrant-child-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0the Biden administration ignored warnings that migrant children were at risk of being exploited for labor or sex trafficking,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/17\/us\/politics\/migrant-child-labor-biden.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a>\u00a0to The New York Times. The Department of Labor\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/02\/27\/biden-administration-department-of-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\">initiated<\/a>\u00a0an investigation into snack factories for child labor violations in February.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know that Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement has completely lost track of 85,000 children that have come into this country,\u201d Blackburn told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. \u201cWe know that you have got over 250,000 unaccompanied alien children and they can\u2019t find 85,000 of them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou reference the whistleblower and what we\u2019re hearing is that many of these children are going to individuals who want to use them as child labor. This is something that has to stop,\u201d Blackburn continued. \u201cThe fact that they do not know if these children are being trafficked, if they are in gangs, if they are being used for drug trafficking, sex trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/10\/22\/migrants-southern-border-records\/\">encountered<\/a>&nbsp;over 2.3 million migrants in fiscal year 2022, while another 600,000 migrants evaded CBP that fiscal year, Fox News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/border-officials-count-599000-gotaway-migrants-fiscal-year-2022-source\">reported<\/a>. CBP reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/11\/15\/border-migrants-cbp-immigration\/\">encountering<\/a>&nbsp;230,000 people in October, the first month of fiscal year 2023, another 233,470 people in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-november-2022-monthly-operational-update\">November<\/a>, the second month of fiscal year 2023 and over 250,000 in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/16\/southern-border-migrants-border-patrol\/\">December<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese children being sent to people that are using them for labor or putting them into gangs or for sex trafficking,\u201d Blackburn said. \u201cThis is modern day slavery.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa told the Obama administration in November 2015 that whistleblowers reported similar exploitation of unaccompanied minors, according to a Nov. 24, 2015&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/obama-administration-allegedly-releasing-unaccompanied-minors-criminals-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe federal government has been misusing and losing track of children for a very long time,\u201d Faulkner said. \u201cThat number, 85,000, didn\u2019t just happen overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstreport.com\/modern-day-slavery-sen-blackburn-says-unaccompanied-migrant-kids-are-being-used-for-child-labor-sex-trafficking\/\">https:\/\/americafirstreport.com\/modern-day-slavery-sen-blackburn-says-unaccompanied-migrant-kids-are-being-used-for-child-labor-sex-trafficking\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said Tuesday that unaccompanied minors at the southern border are being used for sex trafficking and child labor. The comments come after whistleblowers\u00a0said\u00a0the Biden administration ignored warnings that migrant children were at risk of being exploited for labor or sex trafficking,\u00a0according\u00a0to The New York Times. The Department of Labor\u00a0initiated\u00a0an investigation into snack factories for child labor violations in February. \u201cWe know that Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement has completely lost track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}