We often hear about the huge number of kids that the Biden administration lost track of as they opened our southern border to any comers. Democrats would like you to believe that it’s not a real problem, but the U.S. Marshals Service tracked down over 30 children listed as “missing” and helped 120 more return voluntarily to their homes.
The effort was a joint mission by multiple Lone Star State law enforcement agencies:
The effort, centered in San Antonio, led to arrests, felony warrants and several new investigations under a joint mission known as "Operation Lightning Bug."
Teams from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) out of San Antonio, Del Rio, Midland, and Pecos joined forces with San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit, Special Victims Unit, Street Crimes Unit and covert operatives. Together, they combed through Texas and national crime databases to identify at-risk juveniles and coordinate recovery efforts.
The number of sick people out there is sobering:
Three arrests for harboring runaways
Nine felony warrants executed
Six sex trafficking survivors rescued and connected with support services
Five new trafficking investigations opened
More than 30 missing juveniles located
More than 120 additional juveniles voluntarily returned home, clearing their names from missing persons databases
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The trafficking of children has been a troubling scourge that has only grown worse:
"Trafficking is something that the city of San Antonio and the state of Texas and the nation have been grappling with for a considerable period of time," she [Kirsta Leeberg-Melton, founder and CEO of the Institute to Combat Trafficking, said operations] said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
She said traffickers often target instability — children without consistent housing, food or family support.
"They are easy pickings for traffickers to take advantage of," she warned. "They exploit these needs by offering those items and then calling in debts and putting those kids in a position where they are able to exploit them for sex or for labor."
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sounded the alarm back in April:
“My oversight revealed the Biden-Harris administration prioritized speed and optics over the safety and security of hundreds-of-thousands of migrant children. DHS OIG’s report echoes my longstanding concerns and further fuels the fire of my investigative and legislative work. I’ll continue fighting to ensure abuse like this never happens again,” Grassley said.
There’s still a lot more victims to be saved, but the Trump administration is doing what the Biden team refused to do: find them and get them out of danger.
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