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    Trump already won that speed bump and 80 brand new miles are under construction as we speak.

    Meanwhile, Dems continue to abet the slaughter of children by providing these animals sanctuary.

    ICE again seeks detention of Maryland teens accused in murder of 14-year-old girl

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    The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency announced Tuesday that it had sought custody of two MS-13 members accused of beating and stabbing a 14-year-old girl to death in Maryland last month.

    Josue Fuentes-Ponce, 16, of Bladensburg, Md. and Joel Escobar, 17, of Northeast Washington D.C , both natives of El Salvador, were arrested by Prince George's County (Md.) police last week and charged as adults with first-degree murder in the death of Ariana Funes-Diaz, whose body was found in a creek May 15.


    REP. VERN BUCHANAN: TRUMP IS SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING DOWN MS-13

    In a statement, ICE said it had lodged a detainer with the Prince George's County Detention Center in May 2018 after Fuentes-Ponce and Escobar were arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, participation in gang activity, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted robbery, among other offenses. However, the agency said both were released "on an unknown date and time without notification to ICE."

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    From left to right, Josue Fuentes-Ponce, Joel Escobar and Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi are charged with first-degree murder (George's County Police Department via AP)

    "These individuals had demonstrated violent criminal behavior before, and because they were released in spite of the lawful detainer, they were afforded an opportunity to take a life." ICE Baltimore Field Office Director Diane Witte said in the statement.

    MS-13 MEMBERS ACCUSED OF STABBING 16-YEAR-OLD 100 TIMES, SETTING BODY ON FIRE

    Investigators say Funes-Diaz was killed on April 18 by Fuentes-Ponce, Escobar, and 14-year-old Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi to prevent her from informing police about a robbery the four had taken part in the day before.

    “This is not two gangs warring with each other,” Prince George's County Police Maj. Brian Reilly told police at a news conference last week. “This is a gang that turned on itself, turned on an associate in extremely violent behavior.”

    According to ICE, Fuentes-Ponce crossed into the U.S. in December 2015 "as part of a family unit" in Texas. An immigration judge ordered his removal in absentia in March 2017. Escobar was taken into custody as an unaccompanied juvenile in August 2016 near McAllen, Texas and was later released to a family member in the Washington D.C. area.
     
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    ****Maryland Frederick Student Found Dead In Washington**** MS-13 Believed to Be Behind Body Found in Maryland
    Posted on May 5, 2019 by HelpSaveMaryland

    BY ZACHARY STIEBERMay 4, 2019 Updated: May 4, 2019

    The infamous MS-13 gang is believed to be behind the murder of a male who was found in Maryland with one hand severed and the other barely attached.

    Detectives believe the body found in Washington on April 27 is Eberson Guerra Sánchez, a ninth-grader who attended Tuscarora High School in Frederick, law enforcement sources told WUSA on May 3.

    The body, found beneath the Chain Bridge near the popular Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath, was badly beaten and hacked with what detectives believe was a machete.

    One hand was completely severed while the other was barely attached.

    Tuscarora High School Principal Christopher Berry said in a letter (pdf) to students and parents on May 2 that Sánchez had died. The Metro Police Department, though, said that the identification of the body hasn’t been completed yet.

    “I know what they’re saying, but it’s too early to make a positive identification,” Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham told NBC 4. “The victim’s face was so badly beaten, a positive identification will take more time.”

    Blue and white bags were tied to trees marking a trail to an enclave in the woods where the body was found. The colors are used by the transnational gang, which is known to favor beheadings and other brutal execution methods to send messages to the families of victims and others. Investigators removed the bags as forensic evidence.

    A student who chose to stay anonymous told NBC 4 that Sánchez had only attended the school for a few months and believed the teen was from El Salvador.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/ms-13-believed-to-be-behind-body-found-in-maryland_2906512.html
     
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    72-YEAR-OLD ILLEGAL ALIEN RAPED, IMPREGNATED 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN MARYLAND ‘SANCTUARY COUNTY’
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    April 13, 2018 by Dave Gibson

    MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD (KECI) – A 72-year-old man routinely raped a 12-year-old girl for nearly a year, impregnating her in the process, Montgomery County Police allege in court records obtained by ABC7 News.

    In February, a Montgomery County grand jury indicted Ovidio De Jesus Perez, of Silver Spring, on one count of sex abuse of a minor, plus two counts of second-degree rape. Oddly enough, the indictment was entered one year to the day that the alleged sexual abuse first started.

    According to investigators, the 12-year-old girl reported the molestation around Thanksgiving. She was six months pregnant at the time.

    The victim explained Perez routinely took her to his apartment bedroom along Quebec Terrace in Silver Spring. There she described numerous horrific encounters. When she attempted to scream, Perez would allegedly tell her to be quiet. When she attempted to push Perez off, the senior citizen would allegedly fight back.

    The victim’s mother took her daughter to the pediatrician and gynecologist, where their fears of her carrying a child were confirmed. The victim stated Perez is the only person she has ever had sexual intercourse with.

    The victim has since given birth. A DNA test will be conducted to verify if Perez is in fact the father.

    Despite the severity of the allegations, a Montgomery County District Court judge granted Perez a $75,000 unsecured personal bond, allowing him to walk out of jail without putting down a single dime. Instead, Perez signed a paper promising to return to court and abide by his court orders, which include wearing a tracking device and refraining from interacting with minors, including the victim.

    However, within weeks of being released, Perez violated two of his court conditions. In one case he left home after his mandatory 5 p.m. curfew. He also failed to attend pretrial services meetings for around six weeks.

    Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert Greenberg issued a warrant for Perez’s arrest.

    “He is old and infirm, your honor. I know that in explaining things to him, sometimes it takes several times,” defense attorney Jonathan Oates stated during a March court hearing regarding the bench warrant. “I have made every effort to make sure everything is absolutely crystal clear of what he needs to do.”

    Oates went on to explain Perez has no prior criminal record, and laid the foundation for a possible defense.

    “[The victim] may have ulterior motives in terms of the fact that she is pregnant and blaming it on someone else,” Oates suggested to the judge. “Based on the way [my client has] conducted himself for the past 72 years, it warrants release.”

    In an act of grace, Judge Greenberg quashed the warrant, but reminded Perez about the importance of following the rules.

    According to court documents, Perez was born in Guatemala, but has lived in the United States for nearly 20 years. He has three adult children, and worked in construction until recent health complications made him partially handicapped.

    Perez is scheduled for a three-day trial in July. He faces up to 65 years in prison.

    In effort to protect the victim’s identity, ABC7 is not describing Perez’s association with her.
     
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    Police: Md. human traffickers released on bond despite immigration, public safety concerns
    by Kevin Lewis, ABC7

    Friday, February 8th 2019

    Maryland human trafficking suspects released on bond despite immigration, public safety concerns.

    ROCKVILLE, Md. (ABC7) — Three weeks after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared war on human trafficking, two men accused of taking part in the illegal sex trade, were released from jail despite immigration, flight risk and public safety concerns.

    The case highlights the frustrations shared by multiple law enforcement sources working to eradicate pimps and madams, but finding themselves at the mercy of the judicial system that can often have a more lenient worldview.

    The Brothel Along Garland Avenue:
    In August 2018, the Montgomery County Police Department’s gang unit conducted an undercover sting at an apartment building along Garland Avenue in Silver Spring, near Rolling Terrace Elementary School. The officers witnessed various men come and go from the building.

    Police stopped a number of suspected “johns” as they left the area. All admitted to paying for sex with an unknown woman inside. One man confessed to shelling out $30 for a 20-minute appointment. Another man explained he knocked on the apartment door, was let in by a short, heavyset man, paid that individual $35 and was then allowed into the bedroom.

    The following day, police entered the first-floor apartment with a search warrant. Inside they found a man, woman, condoms, lubricants, wipes, lingerie, ledgers, $1,000 in cash and a small bag of cocaine.

    The 39-year-old woman — who ABC7 is not identifying — told investigators that she had traveled from New York City to Silver Spring to work as a prostitute. She further claimed to have provided sexual services to 63 clients in less than three days.

    In a separate interview room, Roberto Diaz-Mejia, 38, explained he had been living in the apartment for approximately two months.

    “Diaz-Mejia is not on the lease, but is living there as part of an arrangement where he collects the money from clients when they come to have sexual intercourse with prostitutes,” police wrote in court documents obtained by ABC7. “He also cooks and provides security for the prostitutes as necessary.”

    Diaz-Mejia freely stated that a man by the name of Herlan Javie Rosales-Velasquez, 34, would come to the apartment every two days to collect money. Rosales-Velasquez reportedly paid Diaz-Mejia around $260 a week for his various household services.

    “Rosales-Velasquez brings in news girls and takes out the old girls,” police further noted in the same criminal affidavit.

    Unjust Clemency By The Court?
    In court a few days later, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office told District Court Judge Karen Ferretti it had a list of concerns about Diaz-Mejia’s being released from jail on any sort of bond.

    “There’s no form of employment aside from the illegal form of employment described in the charging document,” the prosecutor opined. “And I do have concerns about potential for flight risk and danger to the community.”

    In its rebuttal, the public defender’s office explained Diaz-Mejia is a native of the Dominican Republic, moved to the U.S. in 1996 and currently holds a resident card. It went on to explain Diaz-Mejia has an eighth-grade education and recently suffered a “serious accident” that impacted his employability.

    After listening to both sides, Judge Ferretti granted Diaz-Mejia a $10,000 unsecured personal bond, which allowed the 38-year-old to walk out of jail without putting down any money. Ferretti declined comment for this story, citing Maryland judiciary policies.

    In a separate court proceeding, the state’s attorney’s office told Montgomery County District Court Commissioner A. Onwuzuruike, it did not think it was appropriate to grant Rosales-Velasquez an affordable bond.

    “Mr. Rosales-Velasquez is a danger to the safety and welfare of the woman he is alleged to have been exploiting, as well as a danger to the community,” the prosecutor argued. “Furthermore he is facing up to 30 years of incarceration, and up to $20,000 in fines if convicted. So the state thinks that presents an incentive for flight.”

    Yet, Commissioner Onwuzuruike stated that because Rosales-Velasquez was gainfully employed and had no apparent criminal record, she was willing to grant the undocumented immigrant a bond that required he post $800 for release. He was out of jail hours later.

    The court system, however, neglected to confirm Rosales-Velasquez’s home address prior to his discharge from jail. A Hyattsville address listed in court documents turned out to be invalid.

    “Oh my God,” said Karen Ayala-Ventura after ABC7 knocked on her front door. “We rented the basement to Herlan, but he moved out more than a year ago.”

    Ayala-Ventura explained she and her husband had no indication that Rosales-Velasquez was dabbling in nefarious circles. In fact, the alleged human trafficker had invited the couple to his daughter’s birthday party a few years ago.

    “What if he doesn’t show up for court? Will the police kick down my door looking for him?” Ayala-Ventura asked while showing ABC7 her empty basement in effort to prove her account.

    After Commissioner Onwuzuruike’s set a nominal, $800 bond, ICE agents were left scrambling to detain Rosales-Velasquez for fear he might flee. According to ICE, the 34-year-old entered the U.S. in April 2005 without proper documentation. An immigration judge later ordered Rosales-Velasquez be deported, but ICE says for some reason that never happened.

    Like Judge Ferretti, Commissioner Onwuzuruike declined to comment for this story, citing Maryland judiciary policies.

    A Clash of Governing Worldviews?
    This sequence of events transpired in the immediate wake of Gov. Larry Hogan declaring war on human trafficking in Maryland. The governor made that avowal during an August 9, press conference attended by local law enforcement and political leaders, including then Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett.

    “For four years we have been working to combat the criminal gang enterprises that are terrorizing our communities,” a tearful Hogan stated before a crowd of around 100 people at Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services building in Rockville.

    Hogan took the opportunity to reveal a new statewide initiative aimed at cracking down on human trafficking. The list of improvements included $9 million in funding to strengthen victim services and police efforts, a $500,000 grant to create a human trafficking research center at the University of Maryland, plus re-introducing legislation in Annapolis that would classify felony human trafficking as a “violent crime.”

    “These vulnerable young victims are being coerced and threatened. They’re exploited and enslaved and then they’re often repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped,” Hogan shared. “As a father, I’m heartbroken for these daughters and sons who are being victimized and brutalized.”

    ABC7 contacted the governor’s office three times over several months asking for its opinion on how the court system has handled Diaz-Mejia and Rosales-Velasquez’s cases, but did not receive a reply.

    Human Trafficking On The World Stage:
    “This is what’s manifesting in all 50 states across the country,” said Bradley Myles, CEO of the Polaris Project, a D.C. based non-profit formed to prevent human trafficking worldwide. “It’s happening at a gigantic scale.”

    According to Myles, at any given time, 25 million people are victimized by human trafficking worldwide. Two-thirds of those individuals are trapped in labor trafficking (i.e. agriculture, construction, fishing, carnivals). The remaining one-third consists of the sex trade, the majority of those victims being women and girls.

    “The fact is most of the sex trade has moved online for the efficiency gains where you can attract thousands of customers who are anonymous, and you don’t have police cars driving around,” Myles shared.

    Truck stop prostitution, however, is still rampant in certain parts of the county. In those circles, pimps advertise women on CB radios or order girls to knock on windows of parked tractor-trailers.

    Although there are numerous sub-categories of prostitution, Myles explained there are three primary types of sex trafficking in the U.S.

    1.) U.S. citizens pimp out females by posting ads online, and then directing “johns” to a local hotel room where the woman is waiting. These pimps typically assign women with a daily monetary quota. In other words, the number of clients does not necessarily matter so long as the women hit their preset number.

    2.) Women from Asian nations like China, Korea and Thailand are brought to the U.S. and placed in massage parlors. The women work 10 to 12 hours a day, usually providing services to a different customer each hour. These woman are often kept in “debt bondage” by way of threats, manipulation and deception.

    3.) Latino gangs bring women from Central American nations like El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and place them in bars, houses and apartments. The women are priced not in hour-long increments, but rather by the quarter hour.

    “So usually those types of brothels have guys pay $30 per 15 minutes of sexual intercourse,” Myles remarked. “Those women work a 12-hour day — from 10am to 10pm — and usually have to be with 30 to 40 guys in a day. It’s the highest volume anywhere in the commercial sex trade.”

    And that’s precisely why law enforcement sources tell ABC7 that Montgomery County District Court Judge Ferretti and Commissioner Onwuzuruike missed the mark by granting bond to Diaz-Mejia and Rosales-Velasquez. Both men are scheduled for trial in late March, and face up 41 and 31 years in prison respectively.

    The Polaris Project’s Roots:
    Two students at Brown University formed the Polaris Project in 2002 after learning about a human trafficking case near their Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island. The group later moved to D.C., and now has 110 employees. It also runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline for the U.S., which is manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

    “The hotline is really a lifeline for victims because increasingly victims are calling from within the trafficking situation. They’re hiding in a hotel room or they are hiding in a house. They’ll call or send a silent text message while their trafficker is still there.”

    The hotline accepted its first phone call in 2007. It now averages 100,000 calls per year. Operators have more than 3,000 non-profits and 1,000 law enforcement agencies listed in their digital Rolodex. That helps pair callers with assistance including, but not limited to safe housing, job placement, attorneys, churches and hospitals.
     
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    Are they sections of new wall or are they improvements on existing wall?
     
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    New wall.
     
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    Feds Use DUI Arrest Records to Catch Illegal Aliens Released by Sanctuary Cities
    MAY 22, 2019

    Illustrating how sanctuary policies shield dangerous criminals, federal agents captured 141 illegal immigrants in just a few weeks simply by using fingerprints from local drunk driving arrests in one region of the U.S. The operation took place recently in New England, well known for protecting illegal aliens from federal authorities by offering sanctuary through local policies. This includes the entire states of Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts as well as cities in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

    In all the cases the illegal immigrants were released into various communities after driving under the influence, according to a high-ranking federal official quoted in a news story published this month in Boston’s conservative newspaper. The official, Todd Michael Lyons, is the deputy field director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Boston and he says local judges and prosecutors are helping illegal immigrants dodge deportation by not reporting drunk drivers to the feds. “We saw a large number of people with charges dropped down,” Lyons says in the article, adding that “it’s frustrating” and happening throughout New England. “Driving under the influence is a dangerous threat regardless of what country the offender is from,” the ICE director says. “It’s even more disturbing crime when it’s committed by someone who has no legal right to be in this country.”

    Among those nabbed in the recent sting, coined Operation: Secure Streets, were a Kenyan national living illegally in Lowell, Massachusetts with pending rape, robbery and strangulation charges. Others include a Honduran in Boston accused of selling cocaine and a Ukrainian in Cambridge with multiple drunk driving convictions. A previously deported Salvadoran man living in Malden with aggravated assault on a police officer and forgery charges was also arrested in the recent operation as well as a Guatemalan man in New Bedford charged with aggravated assault and wanted for resisting an officer. The Salvadoran man, identified as being 43 years old, also helped a prisoner escape, according to the feds. In a similar sting last year, federal agents arrested dozens of illegal immigrants in the region wanted for dealing drugs.

    Local governments that offer illegal immigrants sanctuary have long defied federal orders by releasing criminal aliens—rather than turn them over for deportation—incarcerated for state crimes. In one recent year alone, ICE reported that sanctuary jurisdictions protected nearly 12,000 criminal illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. During that period more than 17,000 federal detainers were rejected by the sanctuary jurisdictions and around 11,800, or 68%, were issued for individuals with a prior criminal history. In the last few years however, some local governments have taken it a huge step further by actually passing local measures to help illegal immigrants charged with local crimes escape federal custody.

    Among them is New York where a few years ago the attorney general issued legal guidance to help municipalities throughout the state provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. It set a dangerous precedent because it marked the first time a top law enforcement authority, a veteran elected official, actively encouraged and assisted local governments to violate the law. Nearly a dozen New York municipalities— ranging from sleepy towns like Newburgh to larger cities such as Rochester as well as Albany, the state capital—followed the directive to skirt federal law. Of interesting note is that the attorney general (Eric Schneiderman) who issued the outrageous order resigned in disgrace after being accused of physically abusing four women. The Democrat lawmaker had “made a name for himself as a champion of women’s rights,” according to media reports.

    Circling back to the New England region, a few months ago a district judge in Newton, Massachusetts and a court officer got criminally charged for helping an illegal immigrant escape out of the basement door of the Newton District Court. The judge, Shelly M. Richmond Joseph, and court officer, Wesley MacGregor, were federally indicted with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting. Judge Joseph allowed the illegal immigrant wanted by federal officers to escape in order to avoid deportation, according to the indictment. The judge reportedly assured the illegal alien’s attorney that she was not going to allow ICE agents into her courtroom to arrest and deport his client.
     
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    "U.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told.

    A lawyer for the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives provided the information Tuesday to the judge in Oakland, California, who is weighing requests from 20 state attorneys general and the the Sierra Club to block Trump from using funds not authorized by Congress to build the wall."

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ing-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence
     
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    Dems gotta keep those sexy kiddies coming across the border...:tsktsk:

    Tim Head: Children being bought and sold for sex are the hidden victims of the border crisis

    By Tim Head | Fox News

    Florida sex trafficking bust sheds light on nationwide issue

    Law enforcement says high profile cases have put a focus on lowering the demand for sex trafficking across the country

    The dramatic photograph of a 2-year-old Honduran girl crying while U.S. Border Patrol agents search her mother on the United States-Mexico border in June captured the attention of the international press, won the World Press Photo of the Year, and helped define the public fight over U.S. immigration policy for months.

    The gut-wrenching stories and photographs of children separated from their guardians on our southern border garner online clicks, television ratings, and talk radio audiences. However, hidden behind the headlines and away from prying cameras is a much more sinister issue. It's the children who are smuggled across our southern border to be bought and sold for sex.

    Since 2007, there have been over 34,000 sex-trafficking cases reported in the United States. Approximately 600 of the cases annually involved foreign nationals smuggling men, women, and children across our southern border.

    SEN. BLACKBURN: ENTIRE COUNTRY, NOT JUST BORDER TOWNS, AFFECTED BY DRUGS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

    Central American and Mexican cartels control the billion dollar sex trade crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York convicted five Mexican nationals residing illegally in the U.S. who were part of the Rendon-Reyes Trafficking Organization. The group smuggled young women and girls from Mexico and Central America and forced them into the sex trade.

    Women and girls, some as young as 14, were coerced or abducted and then smuggled across the southern border to perform sex acts for willing buyers. Some victims were forced into sex as many as 45 times daily. These women and girls did not voluntarily enter into prostitution; their captors sold them into the sex trade through beatings, sexual assaults, and threats to their families and children at home.

    Our national conscience demands that we protect the innocent young men, women, and children crossing our southern border to be bought and sold in this modern-day slave trade.

    The Rendon-Reyes cartel is not alone. Victimized young men, women and children are forcibly moved into the United States through our southern border and systematically bought and sold for sex and forced labor.

    Over the past year, President Trump has signed four pieces of anti-trafficking legislation focused on the domestic child sex trade.

    • The Abolish Human Trafficking Act provides resources for trafficking victims.
    • The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act authorized $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking.
    • The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act removed legal protections for internet platforms that knowingly facilitate child sex trafficking.
    • The Trafficking Victims Protection Act tightens regulations on countries that fail to meet minimum standards of working to end human trafficking, though one piece of legislation with no enforcement trigger is insufficient.
    Thankfully, Congress and the Trump administration have increased the resources necessary for law enforcement to fight domestic traffickers, but more is needed to combat trafficking and the cartels flooding our nation with an unlimited supply of child sex slaves.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a report during the Obama administration that tracked unaccompanied minors apprehended at the U.S-Mexico border. The report found that unaccompanied children from Mexico are especially vulnerable to human trafficking after being coerced by drug cartels and local gangs to serve as drug mules. These children are then systematically bought and sold for sex in the United States.

    Migrant children from other countries who appear at our southern border are vetted more stringently. They are immediately placed with the Office of Refugee Resettlement to either enter foster care or to be reunited with family members who legally reside in the U.S. This process allows authorities to determine whether a child is a victim of trafficking.

    Adequately screening migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border is the only way to put a dent in the sex-trafficking industry. Many of these young people, especially those from Mexico, are sent back to their home country on the same day if there is no discernible evidence of trafficking.

    The American public, the press, and Congress should recognize the horrors inflicted on migrants who are bought and sold for sex by Mexican and Central and South American syndicates. Addressing our security at the U.S.-Mexico border is the only way to combat the international cartels bringing child sex workers across our border.

    Our national conscience demands that we protect the innocent young men, women, and children who cross our southern border to be bought and sold in this modern-day slave trade.
     
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    There's more to the story. The children being bought and sold are being channeled through a major child predatory operation run jointly by Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Don't believe me? Just ask Trump. He's as honest as they come.

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    ps It's Fox News, the entertainment channel, so you know it's got to be true.
     
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    Haha. Human trafficking is hilarious.
     
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    Not hilarious at all, if that's what you really meant.
    I just find it grotesque the some people have tied Hillary Clinton as well as Joe Biden to pedophilia. These people have sick minds.
     
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    They tied themselves to it through their behavior, contacts, and enabling political actions.

    I agree they have sick minds.
     
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    Privately funded organization 'We Build the Wall' starts construction of border barrier in El Paso area
    By David Montanaro | Fox News

    A privately funded organization called "We Build the Wall" began work this weekend on a project to erect a section of border wall in the El Paso sector.

    Former Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, said on "Fox & Friends" Monday that the project was undertaken because there is a "ridiculously large gap" near Mount Cristo Rey that drug and human smugglers are taking advantage of.

    The barrier will be built on private land. Authorities in the El Paso Sector - which provides support for the counties of El Paso and Hudspeth in the state of Texas and the entire state of New Mexico - apprehends 930 people per day, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    "This is the first time any private organization has built border wall on private land," he told Pete Hegseth, adding that the Army Corps of Engineers had said previously that the strip of land was too rugged for fencing.

    He said the project was funded through private donations to the organization.

    "We'll keep on building as long as people keep chipping in. The average contribution has been only $67 but so many people have chipped in," said Kobach.

    Kobach said plans are in the works to start a second project.


    Associated Press contributed to this report.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Joe Biden displays creepiness for all to see. That's probably why the doctored video narrative is being pushed. Sure some of those videos of Pelosi were deceptive and some were obvious.....

    Keep hammering that point and the creepy Joe videos can be ignored.

    Either way, loony conspiracy theories shouldn't be used to deflect from the real evil of human trafficking.
     
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    Perhaps you have a credible link to this, especially the one about Hillary. I already pretty much know about the crap that is made up about Biden.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Nothing creepy about Joe. His behavior has been explained so many times that only the most hardened Right wingers desperate for dirt will continue to believe it.
     
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    How much Wall have they built?
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Explained? What in the actual fuck are you talking about?

    I saw him with my own eyes. I also saw him make a joke about it after the recent controversy about it.

    "I asked if I could touch him first" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    That's hilarious.

    I've known about Creepy Joe for years.

    I just tried to find a video of Creepy Joe and saw a different one I hadn't seen before. He met O. Hatch's granddaughter and said something like "I hope you have a big fence around your house"

    Yeah, totally not creepy. Glad that's been explained already....
     
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    Yep! That is a fact. Way more than most could care. See him in actions isn't explainable even with multiple attempts.
     

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