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Government accused of becoming a "middleman" in 'Dreamers' trafficking operation

An HHS whistleblower denounces that "criminals, traffickers and transnational criminal organizations" are taking advantage of the Administration's passivity to profit from minors

Several Dreamers pick up food provided by CBP agents.

(Jaime Rodriguez Sr./CBP)

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Israel Duro

The Biden Administration's performance in caring for Dreamers is that of a "middleman in a child trafficking operation." This was stated in written testimony by Tara Lee Rodas, a Federal Inspector General worker and whistleblower for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), prior to appearing before the House of Representatives.

In the text she presented before the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Control, advanced by Fox News, Rodas recounts her experience as a volunteer at an emergency shelter in California. Her work consisted of assisting the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in identifying sponsors for minors crossing the border unaccompanied. From initial enthusiasm, the confidant turned to disbelief and disappointment upon discovering what was happening, without any of the agencies involved in the process of accompanying the Dreamers doing anything to prevent it.

I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in their home country, smuggled to the U.S. border, and ends when ORR delivers a child to a sponsor – some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations. Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets to be used for earning income – this is why we are witnessing an explosion of labor trafficking,.

Administration has lost contact with 85,000 children

According to Rodas, and as reported in the article published by The New York Times last week, the passivity of the Biden Administration makes it easier for these events to continue to happen. For the whistleblower, "whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the U.S. Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children."

Rodas noted that the migration crisis has significantly increased the number of cases of child labor exploitation. According to Customs and Border Protection data, 152,000 Dreamers arrived on U.S. soil last year, and 70,000 so far in 2023. These minors are placed under the guardianship of HHS, which hands them over to sponsors who are supposed to look after their welfare. However, several reports allege that Biden Administration officials have lost contact with some 85,000 minors, while allegations have been made about their inaction in the face of reports that many minors are being exploited for labor.

Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report they are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.

Public complaints since 2022

After several reports to her superiors, the volunteer decided to go one step further and publicly denounced the facts a year ago, in a video made with Project Veritas.

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