「米国の最も暗い秘密」:性売買、児童虐待とバイデン政権
「米国の最も暗い秘密」:性売買、児童虐待とバイデン政権
著:ウザイ・ブルット
2023年7月6日、5:00 am
写真上:バイデン政権による国境開放政策のおかげで、米国内では、南国境を越える何十万人もの移民の子どもたちを人身売買し、虐待するという犯罪行為が、明らかに「普通」になっている。写真:2021年7月9日、テキサス州ローマで、米国とメキシコの国境を越えてリオグランデ河畔に到着した3人の一人旅の子どもたちに話しかけるテキサス州兵の女性。(写真:Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images)
- 現在、少なくとも85,000人の子どもたちが行方不明になっているとみられている。
- 意図的であろうとなかろうと、米国政府は、子どもたちの命で利益を得ようとする悪質な行為者たちによって運営されている、数十億ドル規模の大規模な子どもの人身売買の仲介者になっていると言える......。私たちは子どもたちにアメリカンドリームを与えているのではなく、邪悪な支配者のもとで、現代の奴隷として働かせているのだと知ったとき、恐ろしい事実を思い知らされた......。調査すると脅された。バッジを取り上げられた。子どもたちを救おうとして内部告発をしたのに、報復されるのは恐ろしいことです。HHS(米国保健社会福祉省)は、この件すべてを黙殺するためにあらゆる手を尽くしました」。- タラ・リー・ロダス、2023年4月26日、移民保全・安全・執行に関する下院司法小委員会での証言。
- この2年間で、この国は児童人身売買の国際的な拠点となった。そして、その背後には米国政府の存在がある。バイデンの下で、何十万人もの子どもたちが不法入国している。ひとたびこの国に入国すると、ほとんどの子どもたちは性交渉のために売られたり、安価な労働力として使われたり、ギャングに加わることを強要されたりする。- レイチェル・カンポス=ダフィー、Fox News、2023年4月26日。
- "2021年4月、テキサス州知事グレッグ・アボットは、サンアントニオの連邦施設における同伴者なしの未成年者への虐待疑惑を知ると、『バイデン政権は子どもたちへの虐待を主宰している』と述べた。彼はまた、これらの施設を閉鎖するよう政権に求めた。それどころか、政権は州や地元当局と連絡を取ることなく、施設を拡大するばかりである。地元コミュニティは、未成年者たちがどれくらいの期間そこにいるのか、解放されたらどこへ行くのか知らされず、地元市民への影響も懸念されていない。私は議会に対し、これらの施設の契約を承認した連邦政府機関に対して全面的な調査を開始するよう要請している。- シーナ・ロドリゲス(Alliance for a Safe Texas会長)、2023年4月26日、下院司法委員会移民保全・安全・執行小委員会での証言。
- バイデン政権の誤った移民政策が引き起こした大量移民の危機は、計り知れない被害をもたらした。これらの移民は、こうした政策にそそのかされて......犯罪的な密輸・人身売買組織に先導され、政府機関や請負業者によって違法に国境を越えた......。バイデン政権は、このような政策が移民の子どもたちの安全と幸福を危険にさらす危険性を十分に知りながら、犯罪的な密輸業者や人身売買業者の利益のために、同伴者のいない外国人の子どもたちの不法入国を大規模に奨励する政策を実施した。こうした政策の支持者の中には、家族の再統合を助け、母国での困難な生活環境から安全な避難場所を提供し、さらには米国の雇用者に利益をもたらしているという信念に基づいて、この政策を擁護する者もいる。それどころか、私は、長年にわたってこれほど大規模に子ども移民の虐待と搾取を助長してきた政策に、合理的な理由などあり得ないと主張する。このような恐ろしい取り決めに参加した密輸業者、人身売買業者、虐待的なスポンサー、さらには家族によって被害者にもたらされた損害を正当化したり、埋め合わせたりできるような人道的・経済的動機はあり得ない。"- ジェシカ・M・ヴォーン、移民問題研究センター政策研究部長、2023年4月26日、下院司法小委員会移民保全・安全・執行に関する証言。
- フロリダ州知事のロン・デサンティスは、起きていることを "事実上、米国史上最大の人間密入国作戦 "と表現した。
- これは犯罪だ。FBIが関与する必要がある。85,000人以上の迷子の子供たちを一人残らず見つける必要がある。FBIは彼らを見つける必要がある。国土安全保障省、保健省をFBIが調査し、誰がこうした密輸団を助長しているのか、彼らは意図的に仕事をしていないのか、故意あるいは過失で密輸業者に子供たちを引き渡しているのか。我々はそれを突き止める必要がある。FBIは今すぐ本格的な捜査に乗り出す必要がある」。- ジョシュ・ホーリー上院議員(ミズーリ州選出)、Fox News、2023年4月26日。
- この問題を解決するためには、議会は移民法を改正し、成人と未成年者の大量不法移民を助長している行政政策を抑制しなければならない。必要なのは、「州や地方自治体が人身売買や不法移民、人身密輸、身分詐称、不法就労を調査し、罰則を科す機会を増やすこと」である。- ジェシカ・M・ヴォーン、2023年4月26日、移民保全・安全・執行に関する下院司法小委員会での証言。
南部国境を越える何十万人もの移民の子どもたちを人身売買し、虐待するという犯罪行為は、バイデン政権の国境開放政策のおかげで、今や米国内では見かけ上「普通」になっている:
この数字には、"少なくとも120万人の不法移民"、すなわち "逃亡者 "が "不法に米国とメキシコの国境を越えたことが確認された "という報告は含まれていない。
現在、少なくとも85,000人の子供たちが行方不明になっていると考えられている。
税関国境警備局の統計によると
これらの子どもたちの多くは、現在メキシコ側の国境を支配し、子どもたちを連れてきたとされる犯罪カルテルによって、レイプされ、強制労働に使われ、表向きは「借金を返済する」ために残酷な仕事をさせられている。
厚生省の内部告発者であるタラ・リー・ロダスは、4月26日に行われた下院司法委員会の移民保全・安全・執行小委員会での証言の中で、次のように述べている:
彼女はこの慣行を「現代の奴隷制度」と表現した。
- マヤの方言を話し、スペイン語を話すことができないグアテマラ出身の弱い立場の先住民の子どもたちを見た。つまり、英語で助けを求めることも、スペイン語で助けを求めることもできないのだ。このような子どもたちは、スポンサーの虜になってしまうのです。
- 私はケースマネージャーが旅先で子どもたちにされた恐ろしいことを涙ながらに語るのに同席したことがある。
- 20人、30人、40人の同伴者のいない子どもたちが解放されたアパートを見た。
- 複数のORRサイトから同時に子どもたちのスポンサーになろうとしているスポンサーを見た。
- スポンサーが複数の住所を使って子供のスポンサーシップを獲得しているのを見た。
- 借金を負わされた子供たちが、借金を返すまでスポンサーのもとにいなければならないことを知っているケースを数多く見た。
ロダスは、彼女が公表した後、上司から報復を受けたと付け加えた。
別の証言では、移民の専門家であるジェシカ・M・ヴォーンがこう語っている:
レイチェル・カンポス=ダフィーは4月26日、移民の子どもたちに対する犯罪について報告した:
カンポス=ダフィーは、移民の子どもたちの大量人身売買、虐待、搾取を "米国の最も暗い秘密 "と呼んだ。
Alliance for a Safe Texasのシーナ・ロドリゲス会長は、南部国境で子どもたちに何が起きているのか、目撃証言を発表した:
ロドリゲスはいくつかの例を挙げた:
ジェシカ・M・ヴォーンも詳細な証言を行った、
「フロリダ州の大陪審はこう述べた:
ヴォーンは、子どもたちがギャングのメンバーによって、セックスやその他の犯罪目的のためにどのように搾取されているか、次のような例を挙げた:
フロリダ州知事のロン・デサンティスは、起きていることを "事実上、米国史上最大の人間密輸作戦 "と表現している。
ジョシュ・ホーリー上院議員は、バイデン政策を "米国史上最大の児童密輸組織であり、最大の児童労働組織 "と呼んだ。彼はFox Newsに対し、連邦政府が行方を見失った8万5千人の移民の子供たちを見つけるためにFBIが関与する必要があるだけでなく、移民の子供たちの扱いについて、国土安全保障省と保健福祉省(HSS)をFBIが調査すべきだと語った。
「不法に入国した未成年者を処理するシステムが機能不全に陥っていることは疑いの余地がない。
トルコ人ジャーナリスト、フィロス・プロジェクト研究員、ゲートストーン研究所特別上級研究員。
原文:
'America's Darkest Secret': Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration
by Uzay Bulut
July 6, 2023 at 5:00 am
Photo top: The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently "normal" inside the US. Pictured: A Texas National Guardswoman speaks to three unaccompanied children who arrived on the banks of the Rio Grande after crossing the US-Mexico border in Roma, Texas on July 9, 2021. (Photo by Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images)
- Currently, at least 85,000 children are believed to be missing.
- "Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children.... Realizing that we were not offering children the American dream, but instead putting them into modern-day slavery with wicked overlords was a terrible revelation.... They threatened me with an investigation. They... took my badge. It is a terrible thing when you blow the whistle to try to save children and you're retaliated against for trying to help. The HHS [The United States Department of Health and Human Services] did everything they could to keep all of this silent." — Tara Lee Rodas, testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, April 26, 2023.
- "Over the last two years, this country has become an international hub for child trafficking. And the US government is behind it. Under Biden, hundreds of thousands of children have come into this country illegally. Once they get here, most are sold for sex, used for cheap labor, or forced to join gangs." — Rachel Campos-Duffy, Fox News, April 26, 2023.
- "In April 2021, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott learned of allegations of abuse of unaccompanied minors in a federal facility in San Antonio, he said, 'The Biden administration is presiding over the abuse of children.' He also called on the administration to shut these facilities down. Instead, the administration has only expanded them without communicating with state or local authorities. Local communities are not told how long the minors will be there, or where they will go when released and with no concern of the impact to local citizens. I am requesting that Congress launch a full investigation into the federal agencies responsible for approving the contracts for these facilities." — Sheena Rodriguez, president of the Alliance for a Safe Texas, testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, April 26, 2023.
- "The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration's misguided immigration policies has caused incalculable harm.... These migrants were enticed by these policies to... cross the border illegally, led by criminal smuggling and trafficking organizations, and enabled by government agencies and contractors.... The Biden administration has implemented policies that incentivize the illegal entry of unaccompanied alien children on a massive scale, to the profit of criminal smugglers and traffickers, even with full knowledge of the risks that such policies will endanger the safety and well-being of the migrant children. Some supporters of these policies have defended them on the belief that they are aiding the reunification of families, providing a safe haven from difficult living environments in their home countries, and even benefiting US employers. On the contrary, I submit that there is no possible rationalization for policies that have facilitated the abuse and exploitation of child migrants on such a large scale for so many years. There is no possible humanitarian or economic motive that could justify or make up for the damage that has been done to the victims by the smugglers, traffickers, abusive sponsors, and even family members who participated in these dreadful arrangements." — Jessica M. Vaughan, director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, April 26, 2023.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described what is happening as "effectively the largest human smuggling operation in American history."
- "This is criminal... The FBI needs to be involved. They need to go find every single one of these kids — 85,000 or more — who are lost. The FBI needs to find them. We need to have an investigation by the FBI into the Homeland Security Department, into HHS to figure out who is facilitating these smuggling rings, are they deliberately not doing their job, are they deliberately or negligently turning these kids over to smugglers? We need to find out. The FBI needs to get on it and launch a full-scale investigation right now." — Senator Josh Hawley (R- MO), Fox News, April 26, 2023.
- "To solve the problem, Congress must change the immigration laws and rein in the executive policies that are incentivizing the mass illegal migration of both adults and minors." What is needed is "more opportunity for state and local governments to investigate and penalize human trafficking and the illegal migration, human smuggling, identity fraud, and illegal employment." — Jessica M. Vaughan, testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, April 26, 2023.The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently "normal" inside the US:
"According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters with illegal immigrants along the southern border."
These numbers do not include reports that "at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants," or "gotaways," who "were confirmed to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border."
"The actual number of illegal immigrants... [is] unknown. It could be double the number of known gotaways, it could be three times worse, or more. We just don't know...."
Currently, at least 85,000 children are believed to be missing.
According to Customs and Border Protection statistics,
"[T]he number of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Children] who arrive at the border has swelled from 33,239 in fiscal year 2020 to more than 146,000 in fiscal year 2021 and 152,000 in fiscal year 2022. So far in fiscal year 2023, there have been more than 70,000 encounters of unaccompanied children."
Many of those children are raped, used for forced labor, and forced to undertake brutal jobs ostensibly to "work off" their debt by the criminal cartels who reportedly now control the Mexican side of the border and brought the children in.
According to Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Services whistleblower, in testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement on April 26:
"Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children."
She described the practice as "modern-day slavery".
"Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report the are being abused, neglected, and trafficked.....
"I must confess; I knew nothing about their suffering until 2021 when I volunteered to help the Biden Administration with the crisis at the Southern Border. As part of Operation Artemis, I was deployed to the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site in California to help the HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] Office of Refugee Resettlement reunite children with sponsors in the US.
"I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in home country, smuggled to the US border, and ends when ORR [Office of Refugee Resettlement] delivers a child to a Sponsors – some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations. Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets to be used for earning income - this is why we are witnessing an explosion of labor trafficking.
".... I want to see the children protected, so I want to tell you some what I witnessed at the Pomona Fairplex:
- I saw vulnerable indigenous children from Guatemala who speak Mayan dialects and can't speak Spanish. That means they can't ask for help in English and they can't ask for help in Spanish. These children become captive to their Sponsors.
- I've sat with Case Managers as they cried retelling horrific things that were done to children on the journey.
- I saw apartment buildings where 20, 30 & 40 unaccompanied children have been released.
- I saw sponsors trying to simultaneously sponsor children from multiple ORR sites.
- I saw sponsors using multiple addresses to obtain sponsorships of children.
- I saw numerous cases of children in debt bondage and the child knew they had to stay with the sponsor until the debt was paid.
"Realizing that we were not offering children the American dream, but instead putting them into modern-day slavery with wicked overlords was a terrible revelation."
Rodas added that after she went public, her bosses retaliated against her.
"They threatened me with an investigation. They walked me off the emergency intake site in Texas and took my badge. It is a terrible thing when you blow the whistle to try to save children and you're retaliated against for trying to help. The HHS [The United States Department of Health and Human Services] did everything they could to keep all of this silent."
In another testimony, Jessica M. Vaughan, an expert on immigration, said:
"Numerous investigative journalism reports published over the years in the Washington Times, Reuters, and the New York Times, Project Veritas, and others, that provide graphic details of the experiences of UACs during and after their illegal crossing and placement with sponsors in the United States, including domestic servitude, sexual abuse, forced labor, labor exploitation, and illegal employment in manufacturing, landscaping, and other inappropriate and dangerous jobs."
Rachel Campos-Duffy reported on April 26 on the crimes committed against migrant children:
"Over the last two years, this country has become an international hub for child trafficking. And the US government is behind it. Under Biden, hundreds of thousands of children have come into this country illegally. Once they get here, most are sold for sex, used for cheap labor, or forced to join gangs. Nobody deserves this. Especially not children."
Campos-Duffy called the mass trafficking, abuse, and exploitation of migrant children "America's darkest secret."
Sheena Rodriguez, president of the Alliance for a Safe Texas, presented eyewitness testimony regarding what is happening to children at the southern border:
"In April 2021, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott learned of allegations of abuse of unaccompanied minors in a federal facility in San Antonio, he said, 'The Biden administration is presiding over the abuse of children.' He also called on the administration to shut these facilities down. Instead, the administration has only expanded them without communicating with state or local authorities. Local communities are not told how long the minors will be there, or where they will go when released and with no concern of the impact to local citizens. I am requesting that Congress launch a full investigation into the federal agencies responsible for approving the contracts for these facilities."
Among the several examples Rodriguez gave:
"I have also been a witness to several incidents where children were intentionally put in harm's way by adults who forced the children into the deadly currents of the Rio Grande instead of walking through a legal port of entry feet above from their crossing point in the river...
"I also met teenage boys between the ages of 14 to 17, who claimed cartel operatives often transported children through Mexico and held them at bodegas or warehouses where armed cartel members stood guard. Many were told they were going to stay with sponsors in America, with several claims that the teens had never met or personally communicated with their supposed sponsors.
"Since January 2021, there have been over 356,000 UACs...encountered at the southern border, a majority of which have been released into the U.S.: more than 10,000 of which have been released in my respective area of north Texas.
"The Biden administration has admitted they do not keep track of their whereabouts when they are released into the U.S. With the use of taxpayer dollars, tens of thousands of children are simply missing."
Jessica M. Vaughan also offered detailed testimony,
"The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration's misguided immigration policies has caused incalculable harm to American communities, to the integrity of our immigration system, and, tragically, to many of the migrants themselves. These migrants were enticed by these policies to put themselves in risky situations to cross the border illegally, led by criminal smuggling and trafficking organizations, and enabled by government agencies and contractors that have looked the other way at the abuse and exploitation that frequently occurs en route and after resettlement. The most vulnerable group that has been endangered by the Biden policies are the more than 300,000 minors who have arrived on his watch (out of 660,000 total since 2012). They have been carelessly funneled through the custody of U.S. government agencies and contractors, and handed off to very lightly vetted sponsors (who are usually also here illegally) in our communities without regard to their safety and well-being...
"Several major investigative reports conducted by branches of the U.S. government and news media outlets have documented how U.S. policies and practices have facilitated not only this mass migration episode, but also the resulting exploitation and abuse of the participants, which has been present since the onset of this episode. These studies and reports have exposed numerous incidents of abuse, fraud, and trafficking for the purposes of commercial sex and forced labor.
"The Florida Grand Jury observed:
"'Some 'children' are not children at all, but full-grown predatory adults; some are already gang members or criminal actors; others are coerced into prostitution or sexual slavery; some are recycled to be used as human visas by criminal organizations' some are consigned to relatives who funnel them into sweatshops to pay off the debt accumulated by their trek to this country; some flee their sponsors and return to their country of origin; some are abandoned by their so-called families and become wards of the dependency system, the criminal justice system, or disappear altogether.'"
Vaughan gave examples of how children are exploited by gang members for sex and other criminal purposes, such as:
"In the Virginia MS-13 sex trafficking case, after running away from a group home in Fairfax, Va, the teen victims were horribly beaten to initiate them into the gang, and then repeatedly forced to engage in prostitution both to members of the gang and outsiders. From one court document:
'MINOR 2 was sex trafficked by numerous MS-13 gang members and associates shortly after she and MINOR 3 ran away from Shelter Care on August 27, 2018. According to MINOR 2, MINOR 3 informed her that she would engage in sex in exchange for money, food, and other things that MINOR 2 needed'." ....
"The Biden administration has implemented policies that incentivize the illegal entry of unaccompanied alien children on a massive scale, to the profit of criminal smugglers and traffickers, even with full knowledge of the risks that such policies will endanger the safety and well-being of the migrant children. Some supporters of these policies have defended them on the belief that they are aiding the reunification of families, providing a safe haven from difficult living environments in their home countries, and even benefiting US employers. On the contrary, I submit that there is no possible rationalization for policies that have facilitated the abuse and exploitation of child migrants on such a large scale for so many years. There is no possible humanitarian or economic motive that could justify or make up for the damage that has been done to the victims by the smugglers, traffickers, abusive sponsors, and even family members who participated in these dreadful arrangements."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis describes what is happening as "effectively the largest human smuggling operation in American history."
Senator Josh Hawley referred to the Biden policy "the biggest child smuggling ring and the biggest child labor ring in American history." He told Fox News not only that the FBI needs to be involved in finding the 85,000 migrant children that the federal government has lost track of, but that the FBI should investigate the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) over their handling of migrant children.
"This is criminal... The FBI needs to be involved. They need to go find every single one of these kids — 85,000 or more — who are lost. The FBI needs to find them. We need to have an investigation by the FBI into the Homeland Security Department, into HHS to figure out who is facilitating these smuggling rings, are they deliberately not doing their job, are they deliberately or negligently turning these kids over to smugglers? We need to find out. The FBI needs to get on it and launch a full-scale investigation right now."
"There is no question," Vaughan said, "that that the system for processing minors who cross illegally is dysfunctional, and has been for some time, and needs to be fixed.
"To solve the problem, Congress must change the immigration laws and rein in the executive policies that are incentivizing the mass illegal migration of both adults and minors" What is needed is "more opportunity for state and local governments to investigate and penalize human trafficking and the illegal migration, human smuggling, identity fraud, and illegal employment."
Uzay Bulut, a Turkish journalist, a research fellow for the Philos Project, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.
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