A Congressional movie night screening of the 'Sound of Freedom' featured Speaker McCarthy and Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard discussing human trafficking.
The first action needed to stop human trafficking in the U.S. is to secure the border, Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News in an exclusive interview.
"The first thing you really want to do is secure the border because right now many children are being trafficked into America because they believe the border to be open," McCarthy told Fox News at a movie event held last Tuesday. There were overMigrant women and children in a shared room at Rescue Mission of El Paso.a film depicting the horrors of human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.
Ballard, a former U.S. federal agent, began Operation Underground Railroad ten years ago to combat human trafficking after rescuing two children from exploitation in South America. "The border policies that we have in this country are actually incentivizing traffickers," Ballard told Fox News at the private screening."If you're an unaccompanied minor coming into this country and you're released to anyone, this is very dangerous."
Ballard referenced a program that enacted stricter biometric verification procedures at the border, including familial DNA tests, recently ended under Biden as the
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