Just when we thought the situation at the border couldn’t get any worse, it has.
Earlier this week, former Border Patrol San Diego Sector Chief Aaron Heitke testified before Congress that he was directed by the Biden-Harris administration not to release any information on the increase in migrants with significant ties to terrorism.
“I had to release illegal aliens by the hundreds each day into communities who could not support them,” Heitke testified. “To quiet the problem, two flights a week were provided from San Diego to Texas. These flights simply brought aliens that would have been released in San Diego over to Texas. Each flight costs approximately $150,000. This was the administration’s way of trying to quiet the border-wide crisis.”
Nationwide border encounters with illegals under President Joe Biden and his “border czar,” Kamala Harris, have officially surpassed 10 million. However, that number does not include the approximately two million gotaways — persons who were directly or indirectly observed unlawfully crossing the border illegally and neither apprehended nor turned back.
The New York Post reports on the Border Patrol’s latest warning that children are being trafficked into the U.S. through the Biden-Harris administration’s open borders. Here’s the start of the story:
Border Patrol agents are warning that kids as young as 8 are being drugged and smuggled into the US by people traffickers posing as their parents or family members — and nobody knows how common the horrifying practice is.
Authorities have rescued children caught up in two different instances of such smuggling in recent weeks — including one instance where the alleged traffickers had birth certificates for multiple kids who they weren’t related to, according to the Border Patrol.
Border Patrol sources have told The Post they’ve observed increasing numbers of smugglers posing as family units in order to “recycle” children.
“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after awhile we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.
“I hate thinking about it because there were thousands of kids and who knows where they all ended up,” the source explained.
Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.
The cases have horrified leaders in the Border Patrol.