The 'America's Most Wanted' host shared a border security warning outside the sixth annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, where he was honored for career work.
John Walsh, who turned the tragedy of his son's murder into a decades-long career helping solve cases for the families of other victims, has a new warning about child trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border. The 'America's Most Wanted' host made the remarks on the red carpet earlier this month as he was honored with the career achievement award at the sixth-annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards.
The alleged plot works like this: The cartels take money from the parents, promising them that their children will be transported safely to the U.S. to find work. But once they're across the border, the gangs swoop in. 'They get paid by the parents, who think they're getting their daughter or their son a job in America. They're not,' he said. 'They get them across the border, and the cartels and the gangs take over, MS-13, Venezuelan gangs, violent.
He said the border crisis is part of his motivation for getting back on the hunt for criminals. As the Biden administration struggles to deal with overwhelming illegal immigration across the southern border, communities around the country are reeling from crime blamed on foreigners in the country without permission. Earlier this year, the NYPD blamed a 'wave of migrant crime,' largely attributed to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, for fueling surging robberies in the Big Apple.
The government says unaccompanied minors encountered by Border Patrol or Homeland Security agents are transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the federal Administration for Children and Families. But at a congressional hearing last year, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pressed the Biden administration on reports that more than 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children were unaccounted for, 'leading to their exploitation and forced labor.
It comes down to citizens wanting to improve their own communities, the son said. 'America is the greatest country in the world, but our crime rates are high,' Callahan Walsh told Fox News Digital. 'That's the bottom line, and people don't want to be victimized. They don't want to be targeted by gangs, by bad individuals in their communities, and they want to make their communities safer.
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