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Human rights experts and former government officials are raising alarm over a growing danger in the U.S., which they say the Biden Administration has failed to address.
Buck Sexton, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, said that the Biden Administration is ignoring the rampant violence and illegal crossings that are occurring at the U.S.-Mexican border.
"It's been the case for the entirety of the Biden Administration," he said last week. "Their approach to the border is unethical. It's immoral, and it's also deeply cynical as a matter of politics. They could try to change the incentive structure for illegal crossings. They could try to limit the lawlessness as best they can give additional Border Patrol resources."
In addition to Sexton's spotlight on border dangers, Sara Carter, a Fox News investigative reporter, interviewed a Central American who partakes in human smuggling. Under the condition of anonymity, the smuggler said he is, “the guy who takes people to the U.S. – immigrants, to be exact", and works as a smuggler because he likes “to take the risk of doing it, and I knew that people would get a lot of money out of it.”
The smuggler also said that the children being smuggled are in danger, because drug cartels are “asking for children, for them to traffic with drugs and everything.”
The anonymous human smuggler told Carter that Mexican cartels are purchasing children to use as drug mules or worse.
"In many cases, they just have the children there and they have a purpose, only they know what purpose they're going to serve," he said. "But yeah, they are just going to keep them there and [the children are] not going to be free ever again."
Further, he said that smuggled children's organs are being sold on the black market, and their corpses were often filled with drugs and smuggled across the border as a shield.
Texas Public Policy Foundation Policy Scholar Selene Rodriguez recently explained the link between immigration, smuggling and trafficking.
“Human smuggling is the precursor of human trafficking," she said. "People who conspire with human smugglers to illegally enter the United States typically incur in thousands of dollars of debt to make the trip. After entering the country illegally, these same people are often forced to pay off that debt through forced labor and sexual exploitation.”
After concluding her interview with the anonymous human smuggler, Carter said, “I want the American people to understand what kind of monsters these people are and what they are willing to do to children and what the Biden Administration is doing by perpetuating this border chaos."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents made 1.95 million apprehensions at the southern border between October 2021 and September 2022. This shows a spike over the 1.73 million arrests made at the southern border from October 2020 to September 2021.