Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Tx) recently commented on the occurrences that continue to be an issue at the southern border. Van Duyne took to Twitter on July 14 and criticized the Biden Administration for the current border policy.
"Mass human trafficking, drug poisoning crisis, a new era of slavery in America, and death — these are the consequences of the Biden Border Crisis, and it is heartbreaking to see this firsthand in Texas. This crisis will not end until Joe Biden reverses his destructive open border policies or is defeated in Nov. 2024," Van Duyne tweeted.
She also posted a video of her interview with Fox News where she emphasized the danger of crossing the southern border due to heat and human traffickers.
“People are dying on a regular basis, and once they’re brought into the country by some of these sex traffickers and human traffickers, conditions don’t get much better," Van Duyne said in the interview.
She added that migrants have been found “worked to death under threat of death” and “kids who have died as a result of sex trafficking.”
Owen Gleiberman wrote an opinion piece for Variety about the recently released movie “Sound of Freedom.” He said: "“Sound of Freedom” informs viewers that human trafficking is “the fastest growing international criminal network the world has ever seen. A closing title states — accurately — that there are more people enslaved now, by sex trafficking, than there were when slavery was legal. And the nightmare lived by captured children is unspeakable, unimaginable…and all too real. Let’s be clear: This matters more than the cocaine or opioids industry.”
According to Twitter, Angel Studios, maker of “Sound of Freedom,” posted an interview with Mira Sorvino, an Academy Award-winning actress who was a part of the movie. She said, “this is not about politics. This is not about one party or one president or one philosophy." She continued on to say, “Please don’t politicize this issue, child sex trafficking is not a political issue. ... This is just about being a good person who doesn’t want to see children hurt. And there are good people on every side of the political spectrum.”
According to Fox News, children are not the only ones endangered by the trafficking crisis at the border. On July 13, a federal judge handed down a 15 year prison sentence to Jose Cruz Noguez, an individual who organized a human smuggling operation. The smuggler packed two dozen migrants into a Ford Expedition which ended up colliding with a tractor trailer, resulting in the deaths of 13 people near a town in the California desert.
"He and his co-conspirators treated these individuals like a worthless commodity," U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said.
