(CNSNews.com) - Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Mark Lamb said Tuesday that migrants are being “tricked and trapped” into coming to the United States by the cartels because of the Biden administration’s immigration policies or lack thereof.

He detailed his interaction with one migrant woman who was detained with a “baggie full of pill” which turned out to be the morning-after pill, emergency contraceptives taken after sex to prevent pregnancy, because the woman knew she would be raped several times by the cartels on her journey to the border.

“The people are being tricked and trapped into coming here by these cartels because of our policies or lack of. When they come here, the women are being raped,” Lamb told the House Homeland Security Committee during his opening statement at a hearing titled, “Every State is a Border State: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis.”

“We had a woman we caught awhile back that had a baggie full of pills, and we said, ‘What are these pills?’ And she says, ‘When I came across the border, I knew I’d be raped multiple times. These are morning-after pills,’” he said.

“Have we lost our moral compass so bad that we put politics in front of people? They’re raping the women, raping the children, using them as pawns, oftentimes putting them into the sex trade here in America. Slavery is super prolific nowadays. They’re extorting the men,” Lamb said.

“The cartel knows this.  How many times can they sell you a pill? Once. How many times can they sell you a woman? Hundreds. How many times can they sell you a child? Hundreds, and this is what the cartel is doing,” the sheriff said.

Lamb also detailed the increase in human smuggling, saying that young people are being recruited through social media as drivers.

“We have had a 377 percent increase in the last two years for traffic stops involving human smuggling and trafficking. We have had a 461 percent increase in pursuits involving human smuggling, putting my citizens at risk. The drivers are predominantly American, but oftentimes they are juveniles being actively recruited by the cartels on social media, paying them thousands of dollars per person they transport into my community.

On fentanyl, the sheriff said his county saw “a 600 percent increase in fentanyl.”

“In our county we’ve seen a 600 percent increase in fentanyl in my community. In 2018, we had zero M30 fentanyl pill seizures. In 2019, we had around 700 pills. In 2020, we have over 200,000 pills. In 2021, we had over 1.2 million pills and this last year, we had over 1.4 million pills,” he said.

On fentanyl poisoning, Lamb said, “In the state of Arizona, in 2021, we lost 44 children to poisonings under the age of 17. Seven were under the age of one-year-old. If that doesn’t mobilize the forces of this country to stop this problem. I don’t know what will.

“This is what we deal with on a daily basis, and I hear that 90 percent come through the ports. Those numbers are not what we’re seeing. It’s 50/50 – 52/48, and the fact that they think they can bring it through our borders is not something to brag about that we catch it, because what that tells me is the cartel is so confident that they’re going to get those drugs through your borders, that they’re going to bring it through the front door,” he said.

The sheriff said there has been “zero communication with the federal side” since President Biden was sworn in.

He also called on the Biden administration to “stop saying the border is secure, because the border is not secure.”