Kids as young at 8 are drugged and trafficked into the US by smugglers posing as their parents, Border Patrol warns

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Posted on 09/24/2024 3:32:58 AM PDT by Libloather

Border Patrol agents are warning that kids as young as 8 are being drugged and smuggled into the US by people traffickers posing as their parents or family members — and nobody knows how common the horrifying practice is.

Authorities have rescued children caught up in two different instances of such smuggling in recent weeks — including one instance where the alleged traffickers had birth certificates for multiple kids who they weren’t related to, according to the Border Patrol.

Border Patrol sources have told The Post they’ve observed increasing numbers of smugglers posing as family units in order to “recycle” children.

“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after awhile we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.

“I hate thinking about it because there were thousands of kids and who knows where they all ended up,” the source explained.

Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.

The cases have horrified leaders in the Border Patrol.

“Sometimes we encounter criminal actions so horrendous they defy human decency,” said Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief of California’s El Centro sector in the southeast of the state, in response to the case.

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Not to worry. There's a border czarina taking care of all this. She'll be visiting soon. Maybe she'll answer a question or two on the subject.

1 posted on 09/24/2024 3:32:58 AM PDT by Libloather

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