These children are brought here to the United States and
carelessly turn over to Ms.
13 18th St.
gang, other transnational criminal organizations.
This is appalling and I blew the whistle in June
of 2021 and there been whistleblowers before me.
This is appalling and it's they just simply do not
have the ability to run this program without turning kids
over to traffickers.
The House hearing set to begin any moment now.
I'm missing migrant children, hundreds of thousands of them.
And there are grim reports on how these children are
being exploited.
Nicole Parker is a former FBI special agent.
She was embedded with the Violent Crimes against Children's Squad
when she was with the FBI.
Nicole, it's great to see you.
Says we heard from Tara Lee Rodis there, who is
the committee's prime witness.
She blew the whistle on this three years ago and
nothing happened.
Why?
That's absolutely puzzling to me because as children, they are
the most vulnerable members of society.
This is a humanitarian crisis.
And frankly, this is negligence.
And under the Harris Biden administration, it has been an
epic fail.
And these children, they have no chance.
They are unaccompanied minors or children.
They're coming across the border.
There's 17 years of age or younger.
They do not have any legal immigration status in the
United States, and they are without a parent or legal
guardian.
So what happens is they come across the border, they
encounter CBP, then they're transferred over to ICE custody and
then ICE transfers them over to HHS or the Office
of Refugee Resettlement.
And believe it or not, it is through HHS where
that the Orr program is tasked with finding a sponsor.
Where are all of these minors going to go?
And the problem with this administration is that we know
that they have done improper vetting across the board.
But when it comes to putting a child into the
custody, into a quote UN quote, home, you need to
know where they're going, who they're being taken into the
custody of.
And the problem is there's no vetting.
They need to have full criminal background checks.
Fingerprints need to be done.
Some of these sponsors have applied for multiple children.
That is a huge sign of human trafficking, labor and
sex trafficking.
And that is dangerous.
You know, there was this big report out by HHS
in August that that raised suspicions as to where these
children are going.
What one spot sponsor apparently sponsored 2500 kids.
What does that tell you?
That is alarming, John.
That is absolutely terrifying because like I just mentioned, who
in their right mind would be applying for multiple children?
That again, looks to me like a human trafficking ring
in operation.
And I am so grateful that Tom Homan is going
to be coming in as the borders are and is
going to clean house and he has made a commitment
to find these children.
They have no chance.
And again, they are being put into abusive situations many
times.
Some of these sponsors are actually traffickers, sex trafficking, labor
trafficking.
They're being exploited the the type of work that they're
having to, to do.
And a lot of these children, they come from countries
like Guatemala, Honduras, you know, Mexico, El Salvador, they're coming
here for a better life.
And some of them have been brought in by smugglers.
They're not being brought in for free.
They have to pay the smugglers back.
They have to pay their way back.
And that is what they're being forced to do, much
labor and sex trafficking.
And it's so detrimental and it is not fair.
And we need to protect these children.
Yeah.
A lot of parents in the in the Northern Triangle
countries are paying thousands of dollars to these smugglers to
take their children.
N you mentioned Tom Homan is going to be trying
to find all these children.
He mentioned that when he was with us yesterday.
He's got his work cut out for him because here's
here's what that August DHS report showed a total of
448,000 unaccompanied children transferred to HHS between 2019 and 2020.
Three, 32,000 of them failed to appear for their court
dates.
291,000 weren't even given a notice to appear for a
court date.
So that makes a total of 323,000 total whose status
is unknown.
And in Ice's big conclusion from this, without an ability
to monitor the location and status of unaccompanied children, ICE
has no assurance that U CS are safe from trafficking,
exploitation, or forced labor.
And, and at the moment, it seems like nobody's doing
anything about it.
And that's terrifying.
And to think, you know what, we're going to put
them into the custody of a sponsor and then they're
just off in the wind.
That is unacceptable.
You have to be able to do Wellness checks, track
them, see how they are doing and check on their
Wellness.
Otherwise, they could be in very dangerous situations.
They have no way out.
It's extremely scary, terrifying for these young miners.
And again, thank goodness that President Trump won.
He is going to get a handle on this border.
He is going to shut it down.
But there is a crisis on our hands.
And thank goodness we have someone with strong leadership who
is going to help save lives.
You know, I just, I just want to finish with
this.
And it's a quote from the New York Times, who
wrote about this extensively.
In 2023, as migrant children were put to work, the
US ignored the warnings.
Over the past two years, more than 250,000 migrant children
have come alone to the United States.
Thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across
the country, working overnight in slaughter houses, replacing roofs, operating
machinery in factories, all in violation of child labor laws.
A recent Times investigation showed you Tara Lee Rodas as
well suggested a lot of them are in the sex
trade now.
It's just amazing what has happened with these children over
the past few years.
But Tom Homan says he's going to do something about
it.
We'll see if he can.
Nicole, thank you so much for joining us.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you.