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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused the Biden administration Wednesday (April 30) of becoming a “collaborator” in child trafficking.
Kennedy’s comments came during a Trump cabinet meeting following the first 100 days of the Trump administration, according to Real Clear Politics. In a video and transcript shared by the site, Kennedy said:
“We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that. We’re very aggressively going out and trying to find these 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration. We have ended funding for gender mutilation surgeries and other kinds of gender dysphoria practices. And thanks to Elon, we have saved $67 billion at our agency without compromising any of our critical programs.”
It appears that Kennedy is refencing the estimated 300,000 or more children who were brought into the country as illegal aliens, largely for the purposes described above by Kennedy.
Scale of the Crisis
One female writer claimed that Kennedy’s comments constituted a “conspiracy” but the facts are hard to shake:
At least 32,000 children failed to show up for their deportation hearings during August 2024, the Washington Times reported. The department’s inspector general at the time said that no one bothered to look for those who did not appear. Countless children were unaccompanied when they walked into the country, and were subsequently placed with so-called “sponsors,” tens of thousands of whom have since disappeared or stopped replying to officials and case workers. The New York Times reported on the brutalities faced by victims of illegal immigrant child trafficking in 2023, in the middle of the Biden administration.
Kennedy’s Comments Continued
“Mr. President, I want to thank you for your vision, for your leadership, for giving me the 100 busiest days of my life. [Laughter] And most exciting and most rewarding. And over the next 100 days, we’re going to do much, much more,” Kennedy added.
One of the ongoing plans to help fight human trafficking is the redevelopment of the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which has been largely accused of not cooperating efficiently with law enforcement, according to the Watauga Democrat. This is why elected officials like North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, along with almost every other AG in the country, is requesting Kennedy’s help with this issue.
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