Although outgoing President Joe Biden has professed a commitment to fight against sex trafficking that is rocking the United States, his reckless border policies have exacerbated them. Despite the lame-duck president being almost out of office, his policies are still wreaking havoc on American lives and communities.
President-elect Donald Trump can’t take office soon enough.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin reported that an illegal immigrant was caught trying to smuggle a five-year-old girl over the U.S.-Mexico border near Del Rio, Texas. According to Lieutenant and spokesman with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Chris Olivarez was seen forcing the girl into the back of another smuggler’s vehicle to be then driven to a nearby hotel. The girl’s mom was with the smuggler.
When Texas State Troopers pulled the vehicle over, the police officers found that the mother, who lives in North Carolina, had paid illegal immigrants $8,000 to smuggle her daughter across the southern border after discovering the smugglers through an online service.
The smuggler was arrested. However, it was not his first time smuggling children across the border. In 2022, he was caught by authorities for attempting to child traffick minors into the U.S.
Lt. Olivarez said